A couple of alerts for today, September 7:
In Bridlington:
September 7 - 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm £5
Sewerby Methodist Church, Bridlington, YO15 1ER.
Join Bridlington Support Group for a celebration of the life and works of Anne Brontë in words and music by Anne Airton (words) and Anne Powell (piano).
Tickets are £5 each and includes a tea or coffee and cake. Tickets are available by contacting the support group on 01262 673831 or 01262 604276 or by contacting Saint Catherine’s fundraising team on 01723 378406.
Yorkshire woman Anne Powell is a life-long lover of the Brontës- she was a trustee of the Bronte Society and winner of the 2020 King Lear Short Story Prize.
Ann Airton won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, and has performed widely in the UK, Denmark, Canada, Cyprus and New Zealand. (Claudia Bowes)
by Friends of Marsden Library
Thu, 7 Sep 2023 19:30 BST
Marsden Library
Peel Street Marsden HD7 6BW United Kingdom
Michael Stewart’s debut novel, King Crow (Bluemoose Books), was the winner of the Guardian’s Not-the-Booker Award and has been selected as a recommended read for World Book Night. He has written two other novels: Café Assassin (Bluemoose Books) and Ill Will: The Untold Story of Heathcliff (HarperCollins); two short fiction collections: Mr Jolly (Valley Press) and Four Letter Words (Wrecking Ball Press); two poetry collections: Couples (Valley Press) and The Dogs (Smokestack Books); and a hybrid memoir: Walking the Invisible: Following in the Brontës’ Footsteps (HarperCollins).
He is the creator of the Brontë Stones project, four monumental stones situated in the landscape between the birthplace and the parsonage, inscribed with poems by Kate Bush, Carol Ann Duffy, Jeannette Winterson, and Jackie Kay, which he delivered in collaboration with the Bradford Literature Festival.
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