The first of our podcasts featuring interviews with authors who are due to appear at Kirkcudbright Book Week in early March have been posted.
Chis Walker, the Chair of Kirkcudbright Book Week Society, and author and committee member Gerry Hassan have interviewed three authors, exploring their careers and looking ahead to their events.
They include Dumfries-based artist and publisher Hugh Bryden, whose event on Wednesday March 6 is called Cross Atlantic Collaboration and takes place at The Kirkcudbright Galleries in St Mary Street at 11am (Tickets £6).
Hugh will be talking about his twenty years of publishing poetry pamphlets and artists’ books through his imprint Roncadora Press, and a forthcoming Trans-Atlantic collaborative project linking poets, artists and musicians.
Also interviewed for a podcast is romance author Linda Wheatley, who will be giving a talk on Wednesday March 6 at Feast Cafe at 32 St Cuthbert Street at 11am (Tickets £5). Linda is the author behind Reaching Out Across the Waves (Troubadour Publishing), a romantic fiction novel set in southern Spain. She brings to the book her experience gained over years within the boating community of Spain after she and her husband bought a vessel there.
The third podcast to be posted is with novelist Karen Campbell, who will give a talk at 7pm on Saturday March 9 at Broughton House, 12 High Street (Tickets £5). This event is supported by the Scottish Book Trust through its Live Literature programme
Galloway-based Karen is the author of eight novels. Before turning to writing, she was a police officer in Glasgow, then a press officer with Glasgow City Council. She also tutors and mentors in creative writing, and was Writer in Residence at Dumfries & Galloway Council during the Covid pandemic. Her eighth novel, Paper Cup, is set in Dumfries and Galloway and published by Canongate. Karen has appeared at festivals around the country and abroad, and on Radio 4, Radio 3, Radio Scotland and BBC television’s Big Scottish Book Club.
The recordings can be found at https://kbtbookweek.podbean.com
How to acquire tickets for Book Week events sTickets, including for free events which require them, can be acquired via Eventbrite at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk or you can follow the link direct from www.kirkcudbrightbookweek.org at https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/kirkcudbright-book-week-2024-2757849
Details of all the authors due to appear at Book Week, which runs between March 4-10, can be found here at http://www.kirkcudbrightbookweek.org
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