Ryan Van Winkle’s Virtual Book Tour begins on Friday

Ryan Van Winkle is packing his virtual suitcase, travel pillow and all, ready to depart on his first ever blog tour. It’s all in order to promote his Crashaw Prize winning debut collection, Tomorrow, We Will Live Here.

The tour includes stops in Edinburgh, London, the US and Australia. Ryan’s already featured on [...]

Too Many Magpies Virtual Book Tour: May-June 2010

Flying With Magpies

Elizabeth Baines is taking her novel Too Many Magpies on tour during the next few months. She’ll be answering questions about the book, and possibly talking about her other projects (The Birth Machine is forthcoming from Salt). Check the dates below to follow her journey. But first, why not find out a little about [...]

Short Circuit Blog Tour

Over the last few months, our short fiction writing guide, Short Circuit, has been making its way around a number of very nice blogs, accompanied by its editor, Vanessa Gebbie, who has answered questions about the book and short story writing and other things too.

Take a look at these:

Sally [...]

Liz Gallagher — The Maximus Miracle Virtual Tour

Liz Gallagher: The Maximus Miracle Tour

The Maximus Miracle Tour

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar. (Picasso)

Philosophical, inquisitive, humorous narratives show Gallagher’s talent for letting ideas be widely connotative — sharp and daring, quirky and [...]

Tom Chivers: Big Skies Tour

POETRY BANK CHOICE. How To Build A City is the Crashaw Prize-winning debut collection of poetry by Tom Chivers. It is a poetic interrogation of the twenty-first century urban experience, drawing on the history, culture, society and topography of London. Chivers takes his cue from radical writers such as Iain Sinclair and Barry MacSweeney [...]

Nuala Ní Chonchúir kicks off her Nude Not Naked Tour at Rachel Fenton's blog

Nuala visits New Zealand to chat to blogger Rachel Fenton. She poses nude (but definately not naked) for a unique portrait and answers questions about the book…

Nuala Ní Chonchúir: The Nude Not Naked Tour

Nuala Ní Chonchúir: The Nude Not Naked Tour

The Nude Not Naked Tour

The women and men in Nude play out their desires and frustrations from Dublin to Paris, Delhi to Barcelona, and beyond. In these stories there are mercurial lovers, illicit affairs and mistakes that cannot be undone. And at [...]

Andrew Philip’s The Ambulance Box Tour

Andrew Philip: The Ambulance Box Tour

The Ambulance Box Tour

Stops Tour Date Blog 1 10 June 2009 Our sweet old etcetera 2 17 June 2009 The Crafty Writer 3 23 June 2009 One Night Stanzas 4 26 June 2009 Douglas Robertson 5 29 June 2009 Dumbfoundry 6 2 July 2009 [...]

Ivy Alvarez: author of the Dumbfoundry Blog

Ivy Alvarez

dumbfoundry : Poetry news, poetry blogs, poetry magazines, poetry journals, poetry sites, poetry links, etc. Ivy Alvarez (author of Mortal) is one of the original dumbfounders.

Ivy covers Rob A. Mackenzie and Andrew Philiip in upcoming blogs.

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Rob A. Mackenzie: De-Cabbage Yourself! Tour

Rob A. Mackenzie: The Opposite of Cabbage

The De-Cabbage Yourself Tour

Throughout this collection, opposites collide — reality and delusion, political activism and apathy, friend and enemy, life and death. Messiahs parachute themselves to disused northern fairgrounds, a woman diets until practically invisible, trained apes teach a colony of drunks how [...]