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Aoife Mannix is an Irish writer and poet based in London. Her first novel 'Heritage of Secrets' was published by Lubin & Kleyner in November 2008 and will be released in paperback in July 2009 under the main flipped eye imprint. » »
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Heritage of Secrets (HB: Nov 2008)Heritage of Secrets (PB: due Jul 2009)
The other day me and Janie did a photo shoot for Phrased & Confused for the tour in May. Despite the freezing cold in St James’s Park, it was great to see Mark and Mixy again as well as meet some of the members of Woodpigeon and Murray Lachlan Young. See www.phrasedandconfused.co.uk to find out what I’m on about. Or even better become our myspace friend - www.myspace.com/aoifemannixandjaniearmour.
Last night I was performing at City Hall with the lovely Zena Edwards as part of an International Women’s Day celebration. Baroness Scotland gave an inspiring speech on how if she, one of twelve children, could become this country’s first black female attorney general after seven hundred years of white men, there’s hope for us all. Leah Chishugi talked very movingly about what is happening to women in Eastern Congo. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/05/rwanda-congo-genocide-rape
On March 16th, I’ve been asked to perform at the launch of Salena Godden’s Book Club Boutique. I reckon this is a very exciting new night in the heart of Soho, so please do come along and get involved. I’ve pasted the invite below.
Other interesting stuff worth checking out is the virtual writers’ residency that is My Place or Yours – www.myplaceoryours.org. Also the publishers of my novel ‘Heritage of Secrets’ have impressively revamped their website – www.flippedeye.net. My poetry publishers Tall Lighthouse have just set up a facebook group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50232479706.
And finally the sun has started to shine and spring is in the air!
xxAoife
Introducing
The Book Club Boutique
Your Invitation to Soho’s New Literary Salon
The Debut: Monday March 16th 2009 7-8.30pm
Every Monday at ‘Dick’s Bar’
The Green Fingernail, 23 Romilly Street, Soho, London
Free Entry
‘Dick’s Bar’ or The Green Fingernail, 23 Romilly Street, has become the hip, new members bar for those who loved the infamous Colony Rooms and I’ve been offered the space to host things of a bookish nature on Monday nights. This is a lovely opportunity to create a new platform and a central meeting place for wordy types. It’s the perfect venue: there is a warm and velvet vibe down there in the basement and it comes with a well-stocked bar and stage. And the bar stays open till midnight for the drinky and catch-up part.
Ideally each week will have a different event and theme. I am inviting editors, agents, writers and publications to get involved, including the likes of The London Magazine, Trespass, Rising, Granta and The Illustrated Ape, and publishers such as Harper Press, Serpents Tail or Waterways offering them the choice of regular evenings here or one-offs. So, one Monday there could be a book launch, the next week three poets and the following just one headline reader. Perhaps one night a month could be the regular launch for the new issue of a magazine. I’m convinced that once word of mouth gets around that this will be a wicked space for meeting like-minded groovers, launching new work and anthologies, and in case you didn’t read it the first time – it’s a central London bar for us to take over one night a week for FREE!
I’m putting together The Book Club Boutique dream team to help me host and programme it and am seeking assistance in marketing and PR. If you’d like to get involved – or have any ideas or feedback – please do not hesitate to contact me, or Rachel Rayner at HarperCollins, directly. Or simply pop down to our opening night at 7pm on 16th March to check out the space for yourself, and we can discuss things over a wee drinky.
Cheers, Salena Godden
salenagodden@btinternet.com
rachel.rayner@harpercollins.co.uk
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