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SAT JULY 4TH – 8PM
BOOK CLUB BOUTIQUE ‘SPACE INVADERS’
THE STANDON CALLING PREVIEW SHOW @ CAFE OTO, DALSTON (18 – 22 Ashwin street)

We can now reveal the tasty tease line-up for Saturdays showcase of the creative, theatrical and literary talent appearing at the award winning Standon Calling Festival…

NICHOLAS HOGG:
Award winning author, short story performed with special guests

KAREN HAYLEY:
Surrealist sex kitten

AOIFE MANNIX:
Spellbinding Irish poet

MARQUIS ANDREAS GRANT:
Jamaican Swedish poetic leather clad heart throb

LIVE MUSIC:

MELANIA JACK:
The Australian Vegan Lesbian Army

CLAIRE NICOLSON:
“Dusty Sprinfield weaned on acid folk rock that makes grown men weep, little children laugh and fury animals pro create!” Ed Harcourt

THE BOOK CLUB BOUTIQUE BAND with the legendary COBALT STARGAZER and the New York Chic of MAX DORAY on bass.

DJ DAN CARRIER

Very exciting news my novel ‘Heritage of Secrets’ has been nominated for the People’s Book Prize. Now I just need you to vote for it so I can win! Click here http://tr.im/qqEU or go to http://www.peoplesbookprize.com/ and register and vote for my book in the fiction section. Should take you less than sixty seconds and I will love you forever and ever

The paperback’s just been released so you can buy it on Amazon http://tr.im/nL5Y at a special discount for the next few weeks. We’re having a party to celebrate at the Book Club Boutique on July 27th – hope you can make it ?

FICTIONS at the Book Club Boutique
Monday, July 27th, 7pm – 11:30pm FREE ENTRY
Dick’s Bar ‘The Green Fingernail’, 23 Romilly Street, Soho
featuring Aoife Mannix, Niall O’Sullivan, Niki Aguirre and Nii Ayikwei Parkes

Reading & Book Signing at Borders, Leeds

Thursday, June 25, 2009 – Start time 6pm
Borders
94-96 Briggate
Leeds
LS1 6NP

Reading at this event will be:

- Aoife Mannix, author of Heritage of Secrets, a brilliant debut novel set in 1970s Ireland due in paperback in July.  See http://tiny.cc/fkBY1 for more details.
- Charlotte Ansell, Rotherham-resident and acclaimed author of the poetry collections, you were for the poem and After Rain
- Inua Ellams, author of the UK’s fastest-selling poetry pamphlet 13 Fairy Negro Tales
- and Nii Ayikwei Parkes, flipped eye editor and author of eyes of a boy, lips of a man, reading from his recent novel, Tail of the Blue Bird.

Poetry Link

Working in collaboration with five independent live literature producers, Writers’ Centre Norwich, through its previous programme New Writing Live, have set up a touring network across the East of England that will allow Live Literature in all its forms to thrive.

Visit the below venues for our June headliner, Aoife Mannix.

AOIFE MANNIX
Using her winning combination of strong images and lyrics, Irish writer Aoife Mannix offers her collection of lyrically intense poetry with gentle, self-deprecating humour.  She has published four volumes of poetry with Tall Lighthouse (www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk) and her first novel Heritage of Secrets was published by Lubin & Kleyner in November 2008. (http://tiny.cc/lnFES)

Venues:

Monday 15 June
St Gregory’s Centre for the Arts
Pottergate, Norwich, Norfolk
8-10pm | £4/5
www.stgregorysart.co.uk/

Tuesday 16 June
Speakeasy @ The Glass Onion, Peterborough
2 Burghley Road, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
8-10pm | £5
www.myspace.com/speakeasypoetry

Wednesday 17 June
Oral Cabaret @ The Maltings Arts Theatre, St Albans
The Maltings, St. Albans, Hertfordshire
8-10pm | £5
www.myspace.com/maltings

Thursday 18 June
Wax Lyrical @ Colchester Arts Centre
Church Street, Colchester, Essex
8-10pm | £5
www.colchesterartscentre.com

Me and Janie are just about to head off on our Phrased & Confused tour.  We’re very excited cos our CD ‘Different Words For Snow’ has just arrived!  You can get a flavour of it at www.myspace.com/aoifemannixandjaniearmour.  Tour details below.

The other good news is that the paperback of my novel ‘Heritage of Secrets’ is coming out in July.  If you pre-order it from Foyles the postage is free ?   Here’s the link

http://www.foyles.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781905233243&sf_01=kword_index&st_01=heritage+of+secrets+Aoife+Mannix&sort=eh_nbd_rank%2Fd&x=0&y=0&m=2&dc=2

I’ll be reading from the novel on May 20th at the Royal Festival hall.  Here’s the link and further details are below.

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/literature-spoken-word/productions/f8-roger-robinson-niall-o-su-45708

F8: A LITERARY GALA EVENING AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
7:45pm – 10:45pm
Spirit Level, Royal Festival Hall
Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX
Start time: 7.45pm
Door: £7.50
Complimentary refreshments available

To mark their eighth year of operation, flipped eye publishing is hosting a special gala night featuring, for the first time ever, their own live band, the l’8 quartet alongside some of their most celebrated writers, including Agnes Meadows, Charlotte Ansell, Inua Ellams, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Niall O’Sullivan, Nick Makoha, Niki Aguirre, Roger Robinson PLUS Aoife Mannix, Zena Edwards and Malika Booker.  There is an auction of special editions of their eight best-selling titles with covers illustrated by the authors in pen, and previously unreleased audio recordings as giveaways.

The event marks the launch of an eight-month long series of readings – the f8 tour – by flipped eye authors across the UK, including events at Borders and partner libraries such as the Westminster Reference Library

PHRASED AND CONFUSED TOUR
Phrased and Confused heads off on a national tour next week.  Check it out here: www.phrasedandconfused.co.uk.

On the tour bus will be gorgeous Canadian folk collective Woodpigeon, darkly funny satirist Murray Lachlan Young, poet Aoife Mannix, accordionist Janie Armour and The Dead Poets.

Below is a full list of all of our tour dates:

9 May, Phrased & Confused, Southill Park, BRACKNELL (Tickets: 01344 484
123 / http://www.southhillpark.org.uk)
10 May, Phrased & Confused, Cross Kings, LONDON (Tickets:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/45343)
11 May, Phrased & Confused, Norwich Arts Centre, NORWICH (Tickets: 01603
660352 / htp://www.norwichartscentre.co.uk)
12 May, Phrased & Confused, Arc, STOCKTON ON TEES (Tickets: 01642
525199 / http://www.arconline.co.uk)
13 May, Phrased & Confused, Assembly Rooms, DERBY (Tickets: 01332
255800 / http://www.derbylive.co.uk)
14 May, Phrased & Confused, Exeter Phoenix, EXETER (Tickets: 01392
667080 / http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk)