Literary Field Adventskalender:
6 December

6. December 2016Sandra van LenteAdventskalenderChristmas, poem, The Night Before Christmas

Catherine Julie Smith reads “The Night Before Christmas” Read more

Literary Field Adventskalender:
5 December

5. December 2016Sandra van LenteAdventskalenderBlood Salt Water, Denise Mina, public reading

Sandra van Lente reads from Denise Mina’s “Blood Salt Water” Read more

Literary Field Adventskalender:
4 December

4. December 2016Sandra van LenteAdventskalender

Klaudia Seibel reads “Vogonische Dichtkunst” by Holger Marks Read more

Literary Field Adventskalender:
3 December

3. December 2016Sandra van LenteAdventskalender

Jessica Fischer reads a “light poem” by Robert Montgomery Read more

Literary Field Adventskalender:
2 December

2. December 2016Sandra van LenteAdventskalender

Maria Exarchou reads “Abracadabra” from Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary Read more

Literary Field Adventskalender:
1 December

1. December 2016Sandra van LenteAdventskalender

Catherine Julie Smith reads “From a Railway Carriage” by Robert Louis Stevenson “From a Railway Carriage” by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published towards the end of the 19th century (1885) in a children’s poetry book “A Child’s Garden of Verses”, an age when a train ride would still have […] Read more

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

29. November 2016Sandra van LenteAdventskalender

… and the Literary Field Kaleidoscope brings you an “Adventskalender” filled with the joys of literature! Authors and readers from different countries will read to you every day until Christmas. Subscribe to our blog (upper right hand corner) and receive an email whenever a new post is available! Discover our […] Read more

Coming up: reading with Denise Mina in Berlin (5.12.)

10. November 2016Sandra van LenteEventsCentre for British Studies, crime fiction, Denise Mina, public reading

Please join us for the next Literary Field Kaleidoscope reading with the brilliant Scottish author Denise Mina. Best known for her crime fiction, Denise Mina also wrote plays for TV, radio and theatre, short stories and graphic novels. She will read from a selection of her works and engage in […] Read more

Frankfurt Bookfair 2016

25. October 2016Sandra van LenteEvents#fbm16, #thisiswhatweshare, book fair, Frankfurt

Just like every year in October, thousands of people travelled to Frankfurt to buy, sell, network during the book fair. The börsenblatt (similar to The Bookseller) announced 7,100 exhibitors from more than 100 countries. The organisers seemed to have worried about declining figures in terms of exhibitors and visitors, but […] Read more

picture of Sophie Hannah, Bethan Roberts, and Kate Summerscale

Interview with Sophie Hannah, Bethan Roberts and Kate Summerscale

30. September 2016Sandra van LenteCreative Writing, Events, Interview#BritLitBerlin, Bethan Roberts, creative writing, interview, Kate Summerscale, promotion, Sophie Hannah

This is a slightly abridged version of an interview conducted with the British authors Sophie Hannah, Bethan Roberts and Kate Summerscale in Berlin during the #BritLit seminar about “Brit Crime – A New Golden Age of Crime Writing?”. We talked about the involvement of authors in events and the promotion […] Read more