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WORDSTOCK 2013

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WORDSTOCK 2013 – The festival schedule is now live http://www.wordstockfestival.com/festival-schedule/ Two hundred and thirty writers, and I’m one of them! I’m doing a writing class on Sex and the Serious Novel And I’m appearing on stage with Chelsea Cain – going to be seriously good fun! Check it out here: http://chelseacain.com/events/wordstock-readingtalkqa  

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WORDSTOCK WORKSHOP

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  Title of creative writing workshop at Wordstock: SEX AND THE SERIOUS NOVEL The workshop will look at the role of the erotic in literary fiction: sometimes moving, sometimes embarrassing, sometimes unintentionally hilarious. Sex is a major part of life; why do so many serious writers have such trouble writing about it?    

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HAY TRANSCRIPT

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  “The novel certainly came out of the optimism of the sixties and seventies, the feeling that the world might really be about to change, that anything was possible, that the old models of social, political, cultural life could be thrown out and utterly re-imagined; that there would be a series of concentric revolutions that would transform relations of class, …

WORDSTOCK 2013

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If you missed me at Hay in June, you can catch me at Wordstock in October! The Wordstock Festival takes place at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, USA, October 3rd-6th. And I’m going to be there!

FLIRTING AT HAY

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Really looking forward to being at Hay with FLIRTING AT THE FUNERAL on June 2nd! http://www.hayfestival.com/p-5822-chris-keil-and-julian-preece.aspx  

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The Forge at Gort Festival Easter 2013

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They know how to do book festivals in the west of Ireland and Guinness and hot toddies and music in the bars at night… Mark Brady of Cillian Press (UK) – left – in expressive mode introducing Chris Keil (right) in a discussion and reading from ‘Flirting at the Funeral,’ chaired by poet Patrick Stack (centre) at The Forge at …

GORT LITERATURE FESTIVAL

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“That is no country for old men, the young in one another’s arms…” Chris Keil, Cillian Press and Flirting at the Funeral at Gort Festival!  Saturday March 30th 2013