Garston Reads more!

Many thanks to everyone who came to our first Literary evening in September.

We heard about writing detective fiction from local author Martin Edwards.

Our next event is on Thursday 17th October at 6pm at the Library.

This time we'll be hearing about local history writing from local author Mike Axworthy



The events organised by Friends of Garston Library are free to attend and you'll even get a free drink. 

We start at 6 with the talks starting shortly afterwards.

Garston Library is on Bowden Road in Garston (where it joins on to St Mary's Road)

Do come along if you want to hear more about books and literature.

Literary evenings coming up - Garston Reads

This Autumn sees our first series of  literary evenings.  These are free events at Garston Library (we'll even give you a glass of wine).  It's a chance to hear from, and question, published writers and our third event also includes the chance to read some your own work.

We'll be publishing more details of each event as they get nearer, but for now here are the details.

Each event has a six pm start for refreshments and a six thirty start for the talks.  We'll be finished by eight.

Thursday 19th September - Martin Edwards is the author of two series of murder mysteries as well as some stand alone novels and short stories.  Martin will talk about his work and the art of crime writing.

Thursday 17th October - Local history author Mike Axworthy joins us to shed some light on how he writes and on the wealth of local history works about Garston and nearby.

Thursday 21st November - Members of the Dead Good Poets Society will read from published and unpublished work and there's a chance to read your own poetry to the audience.  We will need your work in advance - watch out for a future post on this.

These events are part funded by the Community First fund, which is government money allocated to projects in our area through the Community First scheme. 

Our next meeting

Our next meeting, of the Friends of Garston Library, is this Saturday (6th) at 11 am at Garston Library.

We're usually at the table on the far right hand side as you come in.

We'll be talking about follow up from the Fun Day, progress on the writing competition and planning for the autumn literary evenings.

Garston Fun Day

Frirends of Garston Library had a good day at the Garston Fun Day on Saturday (22nd).  The photographer (Paula) clearly had a less good day!

However here we are (Bill, Michelle and guest of honour the Lord Mayor) on our stall.

We raised our first lot of funds as well as talking to people about our children's writing competition and our literary evenings.

Our next meeting, before some of us take a break , is at 11 am on Saturday 6 July.

Come and meet us on Saturday.

Friends of Garston Library will be at the Garston Fun Day this Saturday (22nd).

We are running a stall where you'll be able to find out more about membership, about our summer writing competition and our autumn literary evenings.

Oh and we'll sell you some raffle tickets too!

The Fun Day is on Garston Park and runs from 11 till 2.

Writing competition launched

We are launching a competition for anyone aged 18 or under who loves books and loves to write.

What we are after is a book review.  This can be about any book.  The only condition is that the book has to exist in the Liverpool Libraries catalogue.  You don't need to borrow the book to review it, merely to check that it exists there.  You can check the catalogue in a library or at www.liverpool.gov.uk

The review needs to be at least 100 words but after that it can be as long as you think it needs to be.

Winning reviews will be published, and the winners will also be invited to take part in a special awards presentation.

You can send in your entry by:

* putting it in the Friends of Garston Libary box in the library
* giving it to us at the Friends of Garston Library stall at the Garston Fun Day (22 June- Garston Park)
* sending it to 75 Canterbury Street, L19 8LQ
* e mailing it to us (word attachment please) at friends-of-garston-library@hotmail.co.uk

We need to know your name, contact details, age and school (if you are still at school)

The closing date is 31 July.

If you have any questions, please drop Paula Keaveney (Chair of Friends of Garston Library) an e mail at
paulakeaveney@yahoo.co.uk

We've written to local schools about this competition, but if you run a youth group and would like more details, please do let us know.

Our next meeting

Our next meeting is Saturday 4th May at 11 am at Garston Library.  We've e mailed everyone who said they were interested but do feel free to come along anyway! (Best to let us know though as we don't have loads of chairs)