Brave New Words
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| Suitable For Ages: | 14+ |
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| Duration: | 2 hours |
| Price: | £8 / £6 |
| Category: | TALK |
| Theme: | Everyday |
| Event Type: | Science Festival Events |
| Venue: | The Scottish Storytelling Centre |
Tickets for this event are no longer available online. Tickets will be available for purchase at the venue 30 minutes prior to the start of the event.
How many clones does it take to change a light bulb? Why did the chicken cross the wires? The members of Edinburgh’s premier spoken-word performance collective offer their unique perspectives on science and fiction in all-new stories. Warning: may contain rocket science, brain surgery and assorted nuts!
Presented by Writers' Bloc
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Brave New Words
Writers Bloc:
Andrew J. Wilson is an Edinburgh-based writer and editor. His short stories, essays and poems have appeared all over the world, sometimes in the most unlikely places. With Neil Williamson, he co-edited Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction, which was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. Andrew reviews books regularly for The Scotsman, Interzone and other publications. He is also a founding member of the Writers’ Bloc spoken-word performance collective.
Mark Harding's fiction has appeared in various publications such as PEN New Stories, The Best Of Every Day Fiction, The Future Fire, Farrago's Wainscot, LitSnack. He has a lit-chick multiple-world time-travel horror story in the anthology of Times Of Trouble coming out sometime this year. He is founder of Mutation Press, whose latest publication is Rocket Science , Edited by Ian Sales, an anthology of hard science fiction, with non-fiction essays on space exploration.
Helen Jackson was one of the winners of the Scottish Wave of Change short story competition in 2011. She was selected by the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust for Story Shop 2011, a series of readings by emerging writers at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Her stories can be found in the anthologies ImagiNation: Stories of Scotland's Future and Rocket Science, and in the online magazine Daily Science Fiction. Helen is also a Scottish BAFTA-nominated animation director.
Gavin Inglis has been a busker, web tech, journalist, public relations executive and stage manager. He writes both long and very short fiction and teaches flash fiction at Edinburgh University. His outlook on science has been irreversibly shaped by having two chemistry teachers for parents. Always exploring new ways to tell a story, Gavin works with music, photography, magic, immersive games and hypertext."
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