I will join the in-person week long course tutored by Toby Litt and Adam Foulds as a guest reader.

This 8 week online course begins on the 25th of October. !2 writers will write in company with each other from autumn to the winter solstice. This couse is now fully subscribed.

Discussion with Amanda Thomson abouot Care and Attention Across Forms. This is part of a wonderfully organised festival by Lucy Cash and Luke Pell that brings together artists across forms to consider:

“Experiments have shown that it’s not just fireflies, fish, jellyfish, and mushrooms that can shimmer, flash or glow in the dark, but also humans. Anthropocene glow is too faint to be perceived with the naked eye but it’s there all the same, perhaps reflecting the fact that inside every body, fragments of stardust remain. Over the last eighteen months we have been thinking about touch, and what it is to touch and be touched in the current version of the world we find ourselves in. We have been curious about the ways in which imagination, care and attention are intertwined and how the adaptations we find ourselves making can be an impetus for ways of being that resource and sustain us and shift away from practices of self-extraction and exhaustion.”

Discover the pleasures of using precise and exquisite detail in your writing.

About this event

A short workshop on gathering and using original detail, as a driving force, in your writing.

As this event has a limited number of tickets and a waiting list, please do cancel if you find you’re not able to make it so that someone else can take up the opportunity.

About the Elizabeth Reeder

Elizabeth Reeder, originally from Chicago, now lives in Scotland. She writes fiction, narrative non-fiction and hybrid work that creates spaces between forms, subjects and disciplines. Her work explores identity, family, illness and grief, creativity and landscapes. She has published two previous novels, Ramshackle and Fremont. Her latest novel, An Archive of Happiness, was published by Penned in the Margins in September 2020. microbursts - a collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go - is a collaboration with artist Amanda Thomson and is published by Prototype Publishing (Feb 2021). She is a MacDowell Fellow and a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow.

This event is part of the Stay-at-Home! Literary Festival 2021

The Stay-at-Home! Literary Festival is a celebration of books and writing, preventing loneliness and championing connectivity and community amidst social distancing. With an emphasis on both inclusivity and accessibility, this is a festival for those who might not feel able or comfortable to attend a physical literary event.

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Please join us for our second event of 2021, 'art & in writing in between spaces', with microbursts authors Elizabeth Reeder and Amanda Thomson in conversation with JR Carpenter, hosted in partnership with Penned in the Margins, publisher of JR Carpenter's An Ocean of Static and Elizabeth Reeder's recent novel An Archive of Happiness.

This wide-ranging conversation will follow multiple threads, forging charged spaces between art and writing, poetry and memoir, weather and landscape, what is expected and what is made.

The event will take place on Zoom, and tickets can be booked via Eventbrite. Booking is essential, but please 'pay what you feel'; there is no set ticket price, and even the smallest of amounts will be gratefully appreciated.

All ticket holders will be given a 20%-off coupon to be used when ordering microbursts from our website.

A discussion on text, subject & craft w/ Elizabeth Reeder, Amanda Thomson and Samantha Clark about their books, microbursts & The Clearing

About this Event

Please do join us for a discussion on text, subject and craft with Elizabeth Reeder and Amanda Thomson - collaborators on microbursts and with Samantha Clark author of The Clearing. The writers/artists will be present to respond to Q&As about the books, the writing, design and editorial processes. Both books deal with the intense time of being within parental illness, and consider experiences of illness, mental health, parental death, and various types of grief in ways that weave through and utilise artistic and multi-modal processes.

As with most of our events, there's a bit of reading in prep. Ideally, we're hoping that attendees will read both books and come ready to have the rare opportunity to discuss books in terms of process, subject and form with the writers themselves - so that attendees as writers and artists and pracitioners can feed that into their own work.

You can order microbursts directly from Prototype Publishing. They're offering a 10% discount using the code: deathwrites

You can order The Clearing from Lighthouse Books. Here is the book's preorder link: https://lighthousebookshop.com/products/the-clearing-pre-order And you can use the code ClearingLaunch at the checkout.

Or, if you can't get ahold of the books, there's an extract of microbursts here: https://partisanhotel.co.uk/Microbursts

And there's a review and extract of The Clearing Here: https://lindasbookbag.com/2020/12/03/the-clearing-by-samantha-clark/

Hosted by #DeathWrites the Reading and Writing Death and Dying Lab, a University of Glasgow ArtsLab lab!

Eventbrite FREE Tickets Here

On Monday 22nd of March at 1pm, I will be in conversation with Lisa Roberston. We’ll be discussing her novel The Baudelaire Fractal and many other things.

Please do join us. Tickets are free. Please register via Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-conversations-lisa-robertson-tickets-135839717251

Elizabeth will be in conversation with PM Freestone author of the Shadowscent books. The event will take place via Zoom and details of how to register can be found via @UofGWriting twitter.

I’ll have the pleasure to be in converastion with Colin Herd about my novel, An Archive of Happiness. Tickets are free via Eventbrite. Part of University of Glasgow’s Writing Creative Conversation series. Such a pleasure to take part in this as the author!

I’ll be in conversation with the brilliant, insightful Jemma Neville about her book, Constitution Street: Finding Hope in an Age of Anxiety 1pm via Zoom. There will be information on @UofGWriting - on twitter and you can register for a link to the event.

A live Instagram Launch for An Archive of Happiness will take place on Friday 18th of September, 7pm UK time. I’ll be in conversation with the incredibly talenteed Sophie Ward. You can tune in via Penned in the Margins’ Instagram. We look forward to seeing you there.

Live Instagram event details and link Friday 18th September

A live twitter launch for An Archive of Happiness will take place on Tuesday 15th of September, 7pm UK time. I’ll be sending the book out into the world with a brief introduction to the novel and a short reading. You can tune in via Penned in the Margins’ Twitter. I look forward to seeing you there.

Live Twitter event details and link

I’ll have the pleasure of being in converation with the formidable, imaginative Annie Ernaux at EIBF.

I’ll be in conversation with Helen Mort about her Black Car Burning (and perhaps some of her other work) and with Niviaq Korneliussen about Crimson at EIBF. Both novels share an evocation of places that impact people and stories alike. The physicality of Helen Mort’s book is quite wonderful (and is in converastion with her book of poetry, No Map Could Show Them). Both authors’ books are up for the first book prize at the festival. Come along and cast your votes.

I am chairing an event with Gina Rippon & Caroline Criado Perez on Data Bias and the Gendered Brain

This should be an amazing event, forward thinking and incredibly useful.

Scottish PEN’s yearly symposium in honour of International Women’s Day will take place 1-6pm on Saturday 16th of March 2019 at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. The subject of this year’s event will be:  ‘PRIVILEGE: LET’S CHECK OURS AT THE DOOR’, and our guest speakers will be Kerry Hudson, Donna Williams, Sawsan Al-Areeque and Callie Gardner.  The event will be run by the Scottish PEN Women Writers’ Committee in conjunction  with IASH of University of Edinburgh.  Our events are flexible, very much made by the writers, poets and thinkers who speak, and the audience members who come and share as well.  We hope to see you there.  

At Creative Conversations I’m in conversation with filmmaker and critic, Mark Cousins.

I am chair of the Scottish PEN Women Writers’ committee.

Please join us for our annual event celebrating the radical and literary contributions of Scottish writer, Naomi Mitchison. This year’s event will be a response to International PEN’s Women’s Manifesto. Committee members and others will respond to the Manifesto, including drawing attention to international writers and local responses. We will be making an open call for contributions in December. The event is free and open to all. Please do join us.

In conversation with Karine Polwart about her creative practice which spans singing, songwriting, essyaing and more.

Where: University of Glasgow Chapel and via the live webcam

This is the final event of the semester. Elizabeth also had the pleasure to chair Maya Chowdury, Tawona Sitehole and Liam McIlvaney.

As part of this launch event for this radical, experimental exploration of the essay and art-writing, I'll be reading / performing a version of the hybrid essay I have published in this journal, What A Thirst it Was: Longing, Excess and the Genre-Bending Essay. Final details to be posted closer to the time.  Other contributors include Laura Edbrook, Amanda Thomson and Susannah Thomson.  

Reference: ‘What a Thirst It Was: Longing, Excess and the Genre-Bending Essay' in the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice (Intellect; Issue 10:1. ISSN 17535190 (online ISSN: 17535204), December 2017

Grantown Museum in conjunction with Grantown’s The Bookmark. Hosted and organised by the incredible Marjory

 'Come along for some tea and cake and an author!'  That'd be me.  I'll be talking about writing and taking us from frosty Chicgo, to the deserts of the southwest, to the remotest reaches of Scotland.  For readers (and one Reeder!) and writers alike.  Tickets £10 and that gives you tea, cake and an impressive discount on any of my books.  

http://www.seall.co.uk/events/elizabeth-reeder-tea-with-the-author-1-apr/

Hosted by SEALL (Skye Events for all).

RESISTANCE: an all day symposium hosted by Scottish PEN Women Writer’s Committee and Institute for the Advanced Studies in Humanities (IASH)

Featuring - Jackie Kay, Sim Bajwa, Caroline Bowditch, Beth Banjeree-Richards, Afshan D’souza-Lodhi and Alice Tarbuck

This will be an open, supported discussion on Resistance as a way of exploring and fighting for change around the boundaries of gender, womenhood, the limits of language and experiences of misogyny, violence and power. 

The day is open to all and free to attend, and includes lunch and refreshments.  

Organised to align with International Women’s Day, we are interested in ensuring that our discussions of gender and discrimination remain inclusive, open, and actively support the ever-changing and dynamic nature of these issues.

Please note: The event wtill be BSL-Interpreted throughout by Yvonne Waddell and Rachel Amey

Date: Friday 9th March at 9:45-17:00

Venue: Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR

Tickets:  Free, via Eventbrite   https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resistance-tickets-42869159811   

Here’s a linked blogpost I wrote:   https://scottishpen.org/history-power-resistance/