What's On

For full details regarding ticket availability and fees please click on the links below each item.


Date:              Wednesday 2nd March 2016
Time:               10.30 – 14.00
Venue:             Waterstones – London, Finchley
Sarah Elizabeth Beaumont book signing
“Join author Sarah Elizabeth Beaumont for a signing of her brilliantly illustrated (and very funny) book Alice’s London: Adventures in Wonderland



Date:              Sunday 6th March 2016
Time:               14.00 – 16.30
Venue:             Waterstones – London, Finchley
My Mum is an Iranian – Book launch
“Join us for the launch of “My Mum is an Iranian” by local author Azita Pourghasem. In the book we meet a boy who tells us of his daily life with his mother, who is from Iran. As he describes his Iranian culture we are reminded that no matter where we come from, the relationship of a mother and child is unique.”


Date:              Thursday 10th March 2016
Time:               19.30 – 21.00
Venue:             Waterstones, London – Islington
‘The Book that Inspired Me’ with Antonia Honeywell
“For the second in our regular series where authors talk about the influence that a particular book or books had on their life we welcome Antonia Honeywell, author of The Ship, the fantastic novel based in an alternative and apocalyptic London.”


Women’s Short Story Competition – Mslexia.
Closing Date:          14th March 2016
1st Prize:                      £2,000
Entry Fee:                    £10 per story


Date:              Saturday 19th March 2016
Time:               11.00 – 13.00
Venue:             Chipping Barnet Library, London
Taking it Further – a workshop with Josie Pearse, of Pearse & Black
“A one-off taster workshop for writers who are working, or thinking of working, on a longer project.  Do you have a book idea and wonder if it would work? Have you stopped writing a book/script/memoir that you began with energy? Are you procrastinating?
It will give you a taste of the kind of work in an 8 week course in March/April/May this year”


Fiction Desk Ghost Story Competition
Closing Date:          Thursday 31st March 2016
Submit a ghost story between 1,000 – 7,000 words
1st Prize:                      £500
Entry Fee:                    £8                                                                                       


Date:              Thursday 31st March 2016
Time:               19.00
Venue:             Waterstones, London – Piccadilly
Words of Colour Productions Presents: An Evening with Yvette Edwards
“Her second and eagerly anticipated book, The Mother, has been described as “stunning” and “masterful” by author Irenosen Okojie (Butterfly Fish) for its depiction of the harsh realities facing families who have lost children to knife crime.”


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