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Writers_Bloc_UK

  1. Today's @DailySF email SF flash story is Helen Jackson's "Dragoman" - sign up free at dailysciencefiction.com & discuss at facebook.com/DailySF
  2. Our medical specialist Andrew C Ferguson is on @illicit_ink this Sunday 6th -- 7.30pm Bongo Club -- illicitink.net
  3. Comrades' update: Venus Carmichael downloads, Weaponiser on sale, Underword goes flash & Daemon Parallel interview writers-bloc.org.uk/2012/05/02/com…
  4. We're on at the Science Festival tomorrow night with stories of squid and starlight: sciencefestival.co.uk/whats-on/categ…
  5. "100 Horrors: Tales of Horror in the Blink of an Eye" published today by @CruentusLibri features a contribution by Comrade Andrew J. Wilson.
  6. Tonight: launch of Jane McKie's "Garden of Bedsteads", Scottish Poetry Library, 18:30 writers-bloc.org.uk/?p=1429
  7. Illicit Ink ride again on Sunday with "Time Will tell" (may include a comrade); be there or be a regular quadrilateral: illicitink.net/events/
  8. Launch event for Jane McKie's new pamphlet: 7 Dec, Scottish Poetry Library, 6:30pm - writers-bloc.org.uk/?p=1429
  9. 10 years of Writers' Bloc! Join us for our anniversary show Better Read Than Dead, Thu 27 Oct, 8pm, Canon's Gait - writers-bloc.org.uk/events/forthco…
  10. Don't miss Bloc's Mark Harding, Gavin Inglis, Helen Jackson and Andrew J. Wilson, all reading at Monsters, Ink tonight: facebook.com/event.php?eid=…
  11. Next show on 27th October.
  12. Several Bloc comrades will appear at Illicit Ink's next show, Monsters, Ink! from 8.00 t0 10.30 pm on Sunday 2 October: facebook.com/event.php?eid=…
  13. Tonight in the Spiegeltent, Charlotte Square, 9pm: secret nightclubs, home movies, lethal plastic surgery. #EdBookFest
  14. At Electric Lit Orchestra tomorrow: giant bugs, R&B anthems, single laydees. #EdBookFest
  15. At Electric Lit Orchestra in 4 days: bad omens, voodoo blues, Hurricane Katrina. #EdBookFest