Debut Authors Festival 2007

Traverse Theatre
Cambridge Street, Edinburgh

The third Debut Authors Festival runs over the weekend beginning Friday 8th of June. The Festival is held at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, and is the only festival in the UK designed to bring together and promote new writers. The festival starts with an 'Unpublished Writers Jam Session', where unpublished writers can read their work in front of a panel of judges.

Friday 8th June

• 8pm - Unpublished Writers Jam - chaired by Alan Taylor (Literary Editor, Sunday Herald), David Stenhouse (writer and BC producer) and Fatema Ahmed (Managing Editor, Granta)

Saturday 9th June

• 12pm - Escaping the Day Job - chaired by Bob McDevitt (Hodder Scotland). Three début novelists talk about how their desire for escape shaped their first books.
• 2pm - Britain Today - chaired by Jackie McGlone. Four young writes look at the changing experience of 'Britishness'
• 4pm - Love Against The Odds - chaired by Faith Liddle. Poets and authors talk about how love can flourish against impossible odds
• 6pm - How To Make a Performance - Karen Glossop shares tips on how to present your work in public confidently

Sunday 10th June

• 1pm - The Dark Imaginings of the Mind - chaired by Catherine Lockerbie (Edinburgh International Book Festival) - four début novelists reveal their secrets of dark and compelling psychological thrillers
• 3pm - Famous First Books - Stuart Kelly (Literary Editor, Scotland on Sunday) will talk with writer Kirsty Gunn about successful first novels
• 5pm - Creative Writing Courses - Literary agent Jenny Brown chairs a discussion on the relative merits of creative writing courses

Booking: Tickets can be bought from the Traverse Theatre, either in person, online or by calling 0131 228 1404.