Uppsala International Authors Stage

Are you a writer or a poet looking to be published? Welcome to International Open Mic for poets and writers who write in English on Sunday 22 March, between 15 - 17 o'clock. At Reginateatern café in Uppsala.

Come to Reginateatern café on sunday and share your work! Meet and greet American Publishers Matt Mcgee and Bren Petrakos from from "Falling Star Magazine", and "International Word Bank Productions".

They will be ´Reading from their work and YOU will be Reading from your work. Bring 5 minutes of your work to share. Come listen, perform and connect. Brought to you by Uppsala Internationella Författarscen.

No entrance fee, book your ticket: 018-72783 40 eller www.reginateatern.se

The Culture Night Live from the Uppsala English Bookshop

The Uppsala Culture Night 2014 (Kulturnatten Uppsala) will take place on September 13.

Storytelling for Children

11:00 at The English Bookshop

Have you started some-thing new? Nursery, school, swimming lessons or perhaps a dance class? New things can be fun and sometimes they are scary. New things can be VERY naughty. We’ve got stories about all these sorts of new things at 11 o’clock at the English Bookshop on Saturday 13th September.

• 17 Things I’m not allowed to do anymore by Jenny Offill and Nancy Carpenter
• Once upon a time by Niki Daly

Barry McCrea & The First Verse! Interview by Helena Dahlgren.

14:00 - 15:00
The Uppsala International Authors Stage at the City Library.

Barry McCrea is an Irish writer and academic who is currently professor of Literature at Notre Dame University.

In 2005 he published an award-winning novel; The First Verse, about a young man who gets pulled into a world of darkness and literature at Trinity College in Dublin. The novel is based around the classical concept of Sortes Vergilianae where advice or predictions of the future are sought by interpreting passages from literature.

The novel explores Dublin’s every corner, including a first-of-its-kind portrayal of its thriving gay nightlife, through the eyes of a young man seduced by a secret society’s ancient reading rituals, based on the sortes virgilianae. In brilliant prose, author Barry McCrea gives readers a psychologically gripping tale set within the intertwining worlds of literature and the living.

• More info at kulturnattenuppsala.se
• About the event by Helena Dahlgren
• Barry McCrea in the bookshop

Charles Cumming – a new generation of spy thriller writers. Interview by Kristofer Lundström from SVT.

18:00 - 19:00

We are honoured to present the very best contemporary writer of spy thrillers in the world; Charles Cumming. Since his debut in 2001 he has won a number of awards for his work and The Observer has described him as ”the best of the new generation of British spy writers who are taking over where John le Carré and Len Deighton left off”. Charles will be interviewed by Kristofer Lundström from SVT's Kobra.

• More info at kulturnattenuppsala.se
• Charles Cumming in the bookshop

Ann Charters on Peter Orlovsky

19:30 - 20:30

Beat luminarie Ann Charters discusses the poet Peter Orlovsky, Beat Generation legend and life-long partner of Allen Ginsberg, and the new book of Orlovsky’s journals, letters and poems.
Kerouac called Orlovsky ‘the greatest man of San Fransisco’.

• More info at kulturnattenuppsala.se
• Peter Orlovsky in the bookshop

The Uppsala bookshop is a alive with lots of activites during the weekend.

First we have Storytelling for children with Hannah – Saturday at 11 am in the shop.

Later on Saturday, at 1 pm, at Uppsala Stadsbibliotek – we will meet Josip Novakovich on The Uppsala International Authors Stage. No ticket needed for this event.
Josip Novakovich in the bookshop
Download the poster for the event

Last but not least: Teen Reading group! In the shop, Sunday at 1 pm. This month we're discussing The Other Normals by Ned Vizzini.

Meet Niel Bushnell, animator and author of Sorrowline and Timesmith. Niel is our guest at the Uppsala Internationella Författarscen; a collaboration between us and the Stadsbibliotek.

• Saturday 12/4, at 12 noon, at Uppsala City Library (Stadsbiblioteket)
• No entrance fee, but book your ticket at Stadsbibliotek reception, 018-727 83 33. You need to collect your ticket at least 30 minutes before the event.

Niel Bushnell in the bookshop

Niel Bushnells website

Om Uppsalas Internationella Författarscen / Uppsala International Authors Stage

We're bringing Karen Campbell back to Uppsala and she will be the premiere guest at the new Uppsala Internationella Författarscen; a collaboration between us and the Stadsbibliotek. This is such a wonderful and important book. You're in for a real treat. Everybody here at the shop LOVES this book! This cannot be overstated.

• Thursday 6/3, 6pm, at Uppsala City Library (Stadsbiblioteket)
• No entrance fee, but book your ticket at Stadsbibliotek reception, 018-727 83 33. You need to collect your ticket at least 30 minutes before the event.

Karen Campbell in the bookshop

Om Uppsalas Internationella Författarscen / Uppsala International Authors Stage