Festival of New Writing 
                    in Aberdeen and 
                    North-East Scotland
                
                
                    1st–30th September 2010
                
                
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
                
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    Lemon Tree Writers
    
    
        
    presenting a reading of poetry, stories and song
    
    
        
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    Saturday 25 September 2010
                     
                    
    11am
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    1pm
                
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    Aberdeen Douglas Hotel, Aberdeen [Map]
    
    
        
    Admission free
    
                
    
    
    
        If you're interested in live literature, or curious to see — and hear —
        what a writers' groups gets up to, feel free to pop along. We guarantee our diverse
        bunch of wordsmiths will keep you enthralled. They are:
     
    
        
            
                
                     
                
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                    Bill Robertson is a short story writer and guitar player. His work has appeared
                    in Fife Fringe, Chapman (coming soon!) and the Lemon Tree Writers
                    Journeys anthology. When not indulging his creative urges he makes a living
                    teaching impressionable young people. He wants to write a novel when he grows up.
                 
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                    Cal Wallace manifested on Earth to become a famous novelist. However due
                    to cosmic interference he was downgraded to little-known short-storyist. He first
                    burst onto the scene a decade ago. No-one noticed. He'll burst again one day. Perhaps,
                    with the wind in his favour....
                 
                
                    See
                    
    www.calwallace.co.uk
                    for more.
                 
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                    E. E. Chandler is native to Aberdeen. Fairly new to the writing scene,
                    she is working on her first collection of poems and trying out short stories. She
                    writes to remember and reads to forget. Favourite themes include madness, unfamiliar
                    places and failing relationships (sometimes all together).
                 
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                    Glaswegian Kathleen Creighton worked as secretary, teacher (English, piano,
                    traditional music), band pianist, and occasional writer. She was a freelance journalist,
                    has had fiction and poetry published and performed, written and directed a play,
                    and currently writes a weekly news page for the Deeside Piper. She is now
                    attempting ‘the novel’ before her brain cells die.
                 
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                    Divorced mother of two Lynn Marsland works for the NHS. She has previously
                    had poetry and short stories published by the Sutherland Writers. Now a member of
                    the Lemon Tree Writers, Lynn is working on two novels. Her writing career began
                    at school in Liverpool when she won the junior prize for short story writing aged
                    ten.
                 
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                    Kent-born Aberdonian Martin Walsh began writing after a long career in marine
                    biology. He draws his inspiration from the people, voices and wildlife encountered
                    down the years.
                 
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                    Robert Ramsay published his first book of poetry, Driving Back, in
                    2009. He writes of the countryside, the land and sky, the light that shines on it,
                    its flora and fauna, people, and of farming, of love, West Africa, of aging. He
                    has been a members of Lemon Tree Writers since 2002.
                 
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     Week 4 
    
    
    
        Friday 24 September
         
        7.30pm
         
        Grassic Gibbon Centre, Arbuthnott
     
    
    
        Launch of Cal Wallace's debut short story anthology
     
 
    
        Saturday 25 September
         
        11am
         
        Aberdeen Douglas Hotel, Aberdeen
     
    
    
        presenting a reading of poetry, stories and song
     
 
 
     Week 5 
    
    
    
        Tuesday 28 September
         
        7pm
         
        Aberdeen Arts Centre, Aberdeen
     
    
    
        Featuring poets John Glenday, Paulina Vanderbilt and E. E. Chandler with musical accompaniment from Colin Edwards
     
 
    
        Wednesday 29 September
         
        6.30pm
         
        Aberdeen Central Library, Aberdeen
     
    
    
        Keith Murray launches his new chapbook
     
 
    
        Thursday 30 September
         
        7.30pm
         
        Woodend Barn, Banchory
     
    
    
        Dogstar Theatre presents a new comedy by Henry Adam directed by Matthew Zajac
     
 
 
 
    
    
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