A regional event
INDEPENDENT PRESS DAY
Clephan Building, De Montfort University, Oxford Street, Leicester
10.30am – 4.30pm, Saturday 20th March.
Staple 72: Music Issue launch from 12 – 12.40pm, with Aly Stoneman & Jonathan Taylor.
Stalls from dozens of independent publishers.
Workshops, readings and book launches.
Independent presses from across the region (and some from around the country) will be on site, together with many regional writers whose work is publishedby large and small independent publishers. Join us for an hour or two or the whole day.
Open to all and free of charge.
States of Independence
Forty writers, mostly from the East Midlands, will be reading from their work at an events programme to accompany an equal number of independent publishers and writers’ organisations staffing bookstalls and displaying their work.
Authors include nationally known figures including children’s writers Berlie Doherty (twice winner of the Carnegie Award) and Chris D’Lacey, novelists Anthony Cartwright (Heartland, recently read on Book at Bedtime) and Rod Madocks (shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, which was featured at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards on ITV3) and poets Gregory Woods and Deborah Tyler-Bennett. We’ll also be providing a Leicester launch for Maria Allen’s first novel, launching the international poetry magazine Cleave and featuring talks on independent football magazines, the 1984 Miners’ Strike and well known phrases and sayings.
Independent press editors taking part include Iron Press’s Peter Mortimer on his “40 years before the mast” as a publisher, and Lynne Patrick from Crème de la Crime, probably the only female crime fiction publisher in the UK. Publishers, groups and magazines from the East and West Midlands and the North East in particular will be represented.
Organised by Five Leaves Publications in Nottingham and the Creative Writing Team at De Montfort Univeristy
Printed programmes available from info@fiveleaves.co.uk, 0115 9895465
Information
The Book Fair and all readings take place in the Clephan Building, Oxford
Street (entrance on Bonners Lane), Leicester LE1 5XY
Public transport and car parking information on www.dmu.ac.uk/Images/DMU1227-campus%20map_tcm6-734.pdf Clephan Building is five minutes from Leicester city centre and ten minutes from the train station. On site parking only for stall holders and speakers, sorry.
Bookstalls are on the ground floor, with further displays on floors one and two
Events take place on first and second floor – please allow ten minutes to get to the correct room
There will be an information point as you come in to Clephan Buildng
All rooms are accessible. Please get in touch if you have any special access
requirements
For further information please contact info@fiveleaves.co.uk, 0115 9895465,
(Out of office: 0115 9693597)
Catering; Clephan Building is very close to the city centre, cafes, shops and pubs. We can only provide vending machines on site. There is a café in the Hugh Aston Building, also on Oxford Street, open from 9.00am-3.00pm.
“States of Independence” is organised by Five Leaves Publications in Nottingham and the Creative Writing team at De Montfort University www.demoncrew.com
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