A summit to debate how Scotland’s literature sector should promote its writing and writers overseas is set to take place on November 23 at the Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh.
Taking place during Book Week Scotland, the Summit is hosted by Literature Alliance Scotland (LAS), Scotland’s largest network of literature and languages organisations.
Dr. Alasdair Allan MSP, Scotland’s Minister for International Development and Europe, will open the event that brings together writers, publishers, literature organisations and the main public agencies in Scotland with a responsibility for the international promotion of Scotland’s literature and languages.
Author and publisher James Robertson will deliver a keynote speech.
Speakers also include non-fiction award-winning writer Dr. Gavin Francis, poet Kathleen Jamie and children’s author Vivian French, publishers Canongate and Birlinn, literature organisations Publishing Scotland, Edinburgh International Book Festival and Association of Scottish Literary Studies, and public bodies and agencies Creative Scotland, British Council and Scottish Development International.
The 'by invitation' Summit responds to recommendation 31 of Creative Scotland’s Literature and Publishing Review, published in June 2015, to ‘lay the groundwork for a strategic and coordinated international presence.’
www.creativescotland.com
Emeli Sandé has announced that she will be touring again in March 2017, and will play four shows in Edinburgh, Birmingham, London and Leeds in support of her new album Long Live The Angels.
Tickets will go on general sale at November 17.
The announcement follows the culmination of her recent tour of intimate shows, which sold out in nine minutes and received critical acclaim.
Her record Our Version Of Events was the biggest selling album of 2012 and has sold 4.6 million copies worldwide. The Aberdonian had three UK number 1 singles including ‘Next to Me’ which is certified platinum in the U.S., with over 1.5 million singles sold.
She will perform at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh on March 16 next year.
www.emilisande.com
The annual Young Trad tour visits Dumfries, Shetland, Skye and Dunblane from Wednesday, November 23.
Bringing together the 2014 and 2015 Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year title winners with finalists from this year’s competition, the line-up features singers Robyn Stapleton, Claire Hastings and Ainsley Hamill, fiddlers Gemma Donald and Ryan Young, fiddler and piper Séamus Ó’Baioghill, clarsach player Heather Downie, and their accompanist, the Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year 2003, guitarist Anna Massie. The tour calls at Cresset Hall, Dumfries (November 23); Mareel, Lerwick (December 5); Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Sleat (December 13); and Victoria Halls, Dunblane (December 21).
www.tmsa.org.uk
http://alexanderandmaclean.co.uk
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