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Festival Critic: Steven Hall
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Steven Hall is one of Hull's most promising new writers. Born in 1975 in Derbyshire, he lived in Sheffield before moving to Hull. A contributor to Manchester's City Life magazine, he writes features, reviews and interviews and is currently working on his first novel with top London agents Curtis Brown.
In 2002 he received a grant from Arts Council Yorkshire to spend time completing his novel. A Fine Art graduate, he counts novelists Huraki Murakami, Georges Perec and Chuck Palahniuk among his influences.
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Throughout the festival, Steven Hall will be posting reviews and comments and introducing guest reviewers for thisisUll.com
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Critic’s pick for the weekend - Russell T Davies
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I can't say this enough folks: If you only see one Humber Mouth event this weekend, actually, if you only see one Humber Mouth event full stop the end - don't don't don't miss Russell T. Davies.
Davies is very possibly the finest British scriptwriter working today. If it's cutting edge, intelligent, thought provoking and has been on TV in the past five years, chances are, Russell T. Davies has written it. From Queer As Folk to Second Coming to the recently announced brand new series of Dr Who, Davis has consistently been at the sharp end of where its at in modern television.
Humber Mouth has pulled off a major scoop in signing Russell T for the festival. Make no mistake - this is bigger than Will Self. This is bigger than Toby Litt last year. This is the guy who's making the TV no one else has the guts or the imagination to make, and he's coming here, to talk to us about it.
Russell T. Davies is part of the Writers Day on Saturday 8th of November. He will be taking part in a panel discussion from 11am -11.45am, will be running an interactive scriptwriting/tv seminar from 12pm-1pm and will be in conversation with James Nash from 2pm-3pm at the EICH Gallery, University of Lincoln, George Street. For info call 01482 616961 (You’ll never forgive yourself if you don’t!)
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People - The Humber Mouth By Maggie Hannan
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When the first literature festival in Hull happened, organised by David Porter and John Osborne, I'd only been living in the city for about eighteen months, having arrived in a van with a dog, looking for somewhere to stay. I'd heard about the poetry readings which had been taking place in the city - the famous Bête Noire readings - and which were reported to be drawing the largest audiences for poetry outside of London.
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Previews Complicated, Brilliant, Beautiful, Political: Joan Bakewell at Humber Mouth
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By Maggie Hannan
When I booked Will Self to visit Pave in June, I took a close look at his latest book Dorian. I was surprised to notice that he'd dedicated the novel to Joan Bakewell. It seemed unlikely - the bad boy of British fiction being linked to that pillar of the establishment, Joan Bakewell.
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Diary of Events - The Humber Mouth - Part 1.
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Complete listings of the Humber Mouth 2003 Literature Festival
Diary of Events for the 6th, 7th and 8th November,
Many of which are FREE so take advantage of what Hull has on offer for you..
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Previews - Three Come at Once, Just like Buses...
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By Maggie Hannan
Hull in Fiction: Christopher Peachment & Will Davenport
Following on from the Crap Towns debacle, my interest was caught by the fact that no fewer than three novelists have set novels in Hull in the past eighteen months. Just like buses, you wait for ages and then three come along at once.
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Previews - Wild Boys and Wild Ways: Jill Dawson
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By Maggie Hannan
The MMR vaccination controversy ensures that few people are unfamiliar with the plight of those affected by autism and their search for answers. Jill Dawson, who visits the Humber Mouth this Saturday, knows better than most about the challenges involved. As the mother of a son diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, she was inspired to write her latest novel Wild Boy after reading an account of a 'feral child' in Uta Frith's Autism: Explaining the Enigma.
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Previews - Doctor in the House? Russell T. Davies
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By Maggie Hannan
'I grew up watching Doctor Who, hiding behind the sofa like so many others. He's had a good rest and now it's time to bring him back. The new series will be fun, exciting, contemporary and scary...' So says Russell T. Davies, famous for the controversial Queer as Folk, and Second Coming starring Christopher Ecclestone.
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Previews - Michael Gray: Bob Dylan poetry of the Blues
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By Lee Cassanell
On Saturday morning I had the pleasure of interviewing Michael Gray, one of the world's leading Bob Dylan Experts.
It was quite an exciting moment for me, being a Dylan fan and all, and I suppose if I'd not had the mother of all hangovers due to the previous evenings merriment, I would have been more nervous then I was.
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Poetry - For those who lay dying.
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by Lee Cassanell
Sign me up
I'm off to war
I want to kill and fight
Please drop me on that desert floor
Let me join the side of right
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Poetry Is This Place Freedom?
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By Nicholas Boldock
The roads stretch out ahead of me
To which town will they lead?
And will there be a lady there
With dark brown eyes and long blonde hair
Who'll let me love her if I dare
Own up to what I need.
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News - Renegade Writers Press Release
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Another year, another Humber Mouth. Only this year, the Hull Literature Festival has an added flicker of brilliance in its calm night sky. The Renegade Writers bring their celebrated event - The Remedy - to the Humber Mouth for the first time, for its biggest and best incarnation yet.
The venue, as for previous Remedy events, is the upstairs room of The George, Land Of Green Ginger (opposite "Courts" bar, at the bottom of Whitefriargate in the City Centre).
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