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LIVERPOOL TO HOST THE 2008 ORANGE BROADBAND READERS’ DAY
FICTION fans will
have the opportunity to meet bestselling women writers at the 2008
Orange Broadband Readers’ Day hosted in Liverpool. The special
one day event at The Bluecoat on Saturday 19 April will see a
stellar line up of some of the UK’s most exciting literary and
cultural female figures gather to celebrate the 2008 Orange
Broadband Award for New Writers.
Kate Mosse, best-selling author and Honorary Director of the Orange
Broadband Prize for Fiction, will join Philippa Gregory (The Other
Boleyn Girl), Lionel Shriver (We Need To Talk About Kevin and The
Post-Birthday World), Bel Mooney (Daily Mail Columnist, Big Dog
Bonnie and The Invasion of Sand), Shami Chakrabarti (Director of
Liberty) and Clare Allan (Poppy Shakespeare) for an afternoon of
book discussions and creative workshops. Shami Chakrabarti and
Clare Allan, judges of this year’s Orange Broadband Award for New
Writers, will also be discussing the 2008 shortlist.
The Readers’ Day has been organised by Orange, The Reading Agency,
Liverpool Libraries, Time to Read, The Reader and the Bluecoat.
The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, established in 1996,
celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s
writing. Recent winners include Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie for Half
of a Yellow Sun (2007), Zadie Smith for On Beauty (2006) and Lionel
Shriver for We Need to Talk About Kevin (2005). Launched in
2005 in partnership with Arts Council England, the Orange Broadband
Award for New Writers celebrates potential and emerging female
writing talent.
Previous winners are Diana Evans who took the inaugural Award in
2005 for her debut novel, 26A, Naomi Alderman who won in 2006 for
Disobedience and Karen Connelly who took the award in 2007 for The
Lizard Cage.
Tickets for the event are £10, or £8 concessions, which includes a
book goody bag to take home. Tickets can be purchased from the The
Bluecoat box office at School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX 0151 702 5324
and online at
www.thebluecoat.org.uk. It is
recommended to book early to avoid disappointment.
For more information on the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and
Orange Broadband Award for New Writers visit
www.orangeprize.co.uk |
WKD LAUNCHES HUNT FOR THE ‘MOST WKD SUNDAY LEAGUE TEAM OF THE YEAR’
CALLING all
Sunday League footie fans; if you’ve lost all hope of reaching the
cup final, don’t despair! The season’s most prestigious title has
just been launched and you’ve got until 25 April 2008 to get your
hands on it.
Forget points won and goals scored, the team with the best goal
celebrations, the dodgiest club name or even the laziest coach could
be in with a chance of being crowned WKD’s Sunday League Team of the
Year.
As well as the title of the UK’s ‘Most WKD Sunday League Team
of the Year 2008’, the winning team will also get their
hands on a brand-new football kit, £2,000 cash, a season-long
profile on the WKD website, and the people at WKD are even throwing
in a year’s supply of the lovely stuff.
As long as every player is over 18 years old, any teams which thinks
it has what it takes to be WKD’s Sunday League Team of the Year
should
email them with a short
description of why, along with supporting photos and video clips by
Friday 25 April 2008. The best entries will be showcased on the Nuts
website and the winning team will be
featured in Nuts magazine on 27 May 2008.
Mersey Ferries gives
a services update about the Pier Head
THE Mersey
Ferries services will be moving temporarily to the new Liverpool
Cruise Liner Terminal from 10am on Monday 7 April
2008. Usual commuter services will be unaffected on Monday
morning. The move comes because Mersey Docks and Harbour
Company are planning to move the Pier Head pontoon closer to the new
ferry terminal and carry out works on the Isle of Man Landing Stage.
Access to the Cruise Liner Terminal will be via the Isle of Man
Landing Stage footbridge. The temporary Pier Head ticket
office on Canada Boulevard will remain open. Customers with
season or return tickets will not need to get boarding passes as
long as they show their valid ticket. A Merseytravel
spokesperson said:- “Unfortunately, we have no alternative but
to accept these requirements of the Mersey Docks and Harbour
Company. We hope we will only have to operate to and from the Cruise
Liner Terminal for about four weeks, but we will keep passengers
informed of work as it progresses.” |
