Valerie Laws at the Newcastle launch of 'The Rotting Spot'

Valerie Laws at the Newcastle launch of The Rotting Spot

Alastair Robinson at the launch of 'Stereograms of the Dead'

Alastair Robinson at the Sunderland launch of Stereograms of the Dead

2012 Programme

Thursday 23rd February, 7.00 pm
Pauline Plummer launches her new book from Smokestack, From Here to Timbujto; she will also be reading from Bint, recently published by Red Squirrel;
at the Lit & Phil, the Literary and Philosophical Society in Newcastle's Westgate Road
Free event.
Tuesday 13th March, 7.00 pm
Tom Kelly launches The Time Office at South Shields Central Library, Prince Georg Square, South Shields, NE33 2PE
Tuesday 27th March
Valerie Laws reading at CBI, Cambridge
Thursday 10th May, 7.00 pm
James Kirkup Memorial Competition event: the announcement of the winner and runners-up of the 2011 competition, the launch of the pamphlet by 2010 winner Martin Bennett plus the launch of a pamphlet from Jake Campbell
at South Shields Central Library, Prince Georg Square, South Shields, NE33 2PE


Photograph of Valerie Laws © David Hirst;
Photograph of Alastair Robinson © Roger Cornwell