Brigid Meets Berlin – Irish Women Writers Festival

21. February 2020GuestEvents, Public reading, women writersevents, events; Irish literature; public reading; representation; women in publishing, Irish literature, public reading, representation, Women in Publishing

Sonya Permiakova gives an account of the recent Irish women writer’s festival in Berlin Read more

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“You will always be our brothers and sisters” – Poetry and Indigenous Languages from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales

29. November 2019Gesa StedmanEvents, News, Public readingBerlin, events, Ireland; Wales, poetry, public reading, representation, Scotland

“Strength lies in Celtic and European unity” – this could have been the motto of Tuesday’s event entitled Muttersprache which took place at the Centre for British Studies and was co-organised by The Literary Field Kaleidoscope, Read more

The Power of Fiction and Poetry: Multi-lingual Workshops and Readings at the Centre for British Studies

24. November 2019Gesa StedmanCreative Writing, Events, News, Public readingcreative writing, Ireland, poetry, public reading, Scotland, Wales

The audience was riveted in spite of the hot weather, when Alys Conran read at the Centre for British Studies in June this year. Read more

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British Council Literature Seminar in Berlin 2018 Writing Gender: Sexuality, Feminism and Masculinity 25 – 27 January

2. February 2018GuestAllgemein, Creative Writing, EventsBritish Council, contemporary literature, gender and masculinity, public reading

Same chair, same location, same organisers. Still – hot! Jessica Fischer enjoys the readings and discussions with authors from the UK at the British Council Literature Seminar and feels fortified by the liberating energy that this event generated in all its diversity. The British Council invited writers and readers, professionals […] Read more

Public Reading with Nikesh Shukla – “being real and textured and nuanced and honest and sad and funny and heartbreaking and angry and knowledgeable”

3. November 2017Sandra van LenteEventsactivism, author, Berlin, Centre for British Studies, crowdfunding, editor, Jhalak Prize, Musa Okwonga, Nikesh Shukla, public reading, Rife: Twenty Stories from Britain’s Youth, The Good Immigrant, The Good Journal

The Literary Field Kaleidoscope and the Centre for British Studies invite you to a public reading with author and activist Nikesh Shukla, chaired by Musa Okwonga. The reading and discussion will take place on 14 November, 5pm, at the Centre for British Studies in Berlin (Mohrenstr. 60, U-Bahn Stadtmitte or […] 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

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

“To see what’s possible in poetry” – Frances Leviston in Berlin

15. June 2016Sandra van LenteEvents#BritLitBerlin, Frances Leviston, Picador, poetry, public reading

Tuesday night saw our first public “Literary Field Kaleidoscope” reading at the Centre for British Studies in Berlin (link). We decided to invite the poet Frances Leviston for this special occasion, as we both fell in love with her poetry when we first met her at a British Council Literature […] Read more