Govanhill Book Festival is part of Govanhill International Festival & Carnival taking place 21-31 Aug 2020. Visit www.govanhillbaths.com/festival for information and the full programme.
Community Building and Anti-racism: Zine-making with Glasgow Zine Library
Monday 24 August, 6:00pm
Zines are a creative and effective way to express yourself and to share a message. They are used by groups to organise and activate others, and as a platform to create communities in marginalised groups seeking alternative DIY methods of making and sharing.
Join artist Natasha Ruwona and Glasgow Zine Library for a very special beginner zine-making course.
In this online session, you’ll be taken through the purpose of zines, how to view and make them through the lens of anti-racism and community-building, and you will get to create your own! Come with a piece of paper, pens, some scissors, and an idea!
Glasgow Zine Library is a community-based zine library in Govanhill. We organise Glasgow Zine Fest, and run a year round programme of community-focused events.
Denise Mina
Monday 24 August, 7:00 to 9:00pm
Denise has published 12 novels and also writes short stories, plays and graphic novels. In 2014 she was inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame. Denise presents TV and radio programmes as well as regularly appearing in the media, and has made a film about her own family. She regularly appears at literary festivals in the UK and abroad, leads masterclasses on writing and was a judge for the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction 2014.
Henry Bell
Tuesday 25 August, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Henry is a writer and editor living on the Southside of Glasgow. He is the managing editor of Gutter Magazine, a biannual literary magazine which was the bestselling book at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2018. Henry has edited books including A Bird is Not a Stone, a collection of contemporary Palestinian poetry in translation. His biography of John Maclean, Hero of Red Clydeside was published in 2018. A collection of Henry’s poetry “The Last Lochan” was published by Speculative Books this year.
Murray Armstrong
Wednesday 26 August, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Murray is former associate editor at the Guardian, where he worked for over twenty years. He is the author of The Liberty Tree: The Stirring Story of Thomas Muir and Scotland’s First Fight for Democracy (2014). His latest book The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820 was published by Pluto Press this year.
Hannah Lavery
Thursday 27 August, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Hannah is an award-winning poet, playwright and performer. Her poetry has been published by Gutter Magazine, The Scotsman Newspaper and others. Her first pamphlet of short fiction, Rocket Girls, was published by Postbox Press (October 2018) and her poetry pamphlet, Finding Seaglass: Poems from The Drift, was recently published by Stewed Rhubarb Press (May 2019). The Drift, her autobiographical play, was part of the National Theatre of Scotland’s season 2019 and Scotland’s Black History Month 2018 and 2019.
Stuart Cosgrove
Friday 28 August, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Stuart is a well known writer and broadcaster. His “Soul Trilogy” Detroit 67, Memphis 68 and Harlem 69 weave a wonderful story of soul music set against a backdrop of civil rights, the war in Vietnam and disaffected youth. They are particularly relevant today as many of the themes have been brought back to the surface by Black Lives Matter.