A.L.Kennedy performs regularly - other work permitting - at the Wicked Wenches comedy evenings at the Stand Comedy Club. We often get reviews from One4Review and you can check the latest, or indeed their archive by using this link. And all our sympathy to Geoff from that site on the death of Sheila - a lovely lady.

For Wicked Wenches dates please use this link to the very fine people at The Stand ALK may cancel at quite short notice, because other duties intervene, so do check, should you specifically want to see her. The evening is always excellent and can be recommended, whoever is playing. Of course, if you find the idea of women speaking in public (or at all) distressing, or the concept of women being funny unpalatable, then you may wish to stay at home - or else be prepared to have your horizons adjusted.

Wenches gigs are on the first Tuesday of the month in Edinburgh and the first Wednesday of the month in Glasgow. The Stand will always know the latest details.

And you can listen to the recent Lannan Foundation reading at Santa Fe here http://www.lannan.org/lf/rc/event/a-l-kennedy/

ALK is now on Twitter, so feel free to sign up and follow.

If you want to read the latest Writing Life Blog click here>>

There's an audio recording of the reading ALK gave on 11th Jan in the RADA Foyer Bar at this site for Writloud.

Three essays went out on Radio 4 - on 16th, 17th and 18th of February in the Afternoon Reading slot.

And "Confessions of a Medium" went out on Radio Four at 14.30 on 13th March.

You may also have noticed a variety of odds and ends on cultural telly programmes. 

ALK wrote and performed a From Fact into Fiction for Radio Four which was broadcast on 5th June and a Christmas ghost story for Radio Scotland in Dec 2010.

There is a link here to a broadcast for Forum of the World Service.

There will be more radio material in 2011 - we'll let you know as links and info become available. For detailed listings go to Events 2011 page. There are also occasional appearances on the Today programme and The Review Show.

2010 involved many gigs, readings, appearances and performances in, among other places, Galway, Edinburgh, New York, Santa Fe, Philadelphia, Viginia, Hay on Wye, Montreal and London. Thanks to everyone who came along and made them fun.

2011 may be less busy, but there will still be festival outings and talks and whatnots and, of course, an amount of shameless promotional activity for the new novel.

Thanks to everyone who is now following ALK on Twitter - that will continue to be the estanblished blend of conversation/party chat/advice column and loose ranting.

Department 5 will be posting more information and links for 2011 soonish, but here are the first firm(ish) dates we have.

Please don't panic if your event isn't listed here - we are not infallible and may have missed you - it doesn't mean ALK won't turn up. Although you might want to double check...

ALK also undertakes teaching and events which are not open to the public, so this isn't a complete list - just in case you make a request for something and are told that a date is unavailable, even though it isn't marked down here. And there are always all those hours and hours of pondering, typing and rewriting to pack in - to say nothing of all those moments completely wasted in eating or sleep...

 

 

2011

January

29th - reading, Berlin.

February

15th - Faber Academy event TBC

17th - Edinburgh Uni event TBC

27th - Chemikal Underground event, 7pm, The Caves 

March

20th - Huddersfield Festival

April

15th - Reading, Roehampton

May

18th - reading, Essen

19th - reading, Cologne

25th - WORDS show, Liverpool, Writing on the Wall

June

22nd - reading and talking at Moniack Mhor

July

Attending Leukerbad Festival

August

4th August - launch of "The Blue Book"

21st August - Reading at Edinburgh International Book Festival

29th August - play reading at EIBF

September

Promotional activity for "The Blue Book"

16th - 18th - Budleigh Salterton events, including WORDS

22nd - event in Spitz

October

9th - lecture at Notes and Letters Festival, London. 2pm

14 - 16th - curating and reading at the Cheltenham Festival

27th - event in Zurich

November

26th - Bridport Prize and performance of WORDS

December

2010

January

5th - Wicked Wenches, The Stand, Edinburgh

6th - Wicked Wenches, The Stand, Glasgow

11th - reading, RADA Foyer Bar, London

14th - reading, Edinburgh Central Library, Edinburgh

18th - Start the Week - Radio 4 - from 9am

20th - Cheltenham Festivals gig, Kings College, London

February

10th - reading, Trinity College, Cambridge

16th-18th "Afternoon Reading", Radio 4, 15.30 - 1545

March

2nd - Wicked Wenches, The Stand, Edinburgh

3rd - Wicked Wenches, The Stand, Glasgow

4th - talk, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

6th - Performance of WORDS, Bath Literary Festival

11th - reading, Aye Write Festival, Glasgow

13th - "Confessions of a Medium" broadcast, Radio 4, 14.30

April

6th - Wicked Wenches, The Stand, Edinburgh

7th - Wicked Wenches, The Stand, Glasgow

10th - workshop, Cambridge Festval

11th - reading, Cambridge Festival

22nd - Cuirt Festical, Galway, WORDS

25th - Cuirt Festival, Galway, In Conversation

28th - Hexham Book Festival - WORDS

29th - Hexham Festival, Workshop

May

19th - reading, BOOKED, West Dumbartonshire

26th - talk, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

June

5th - From Faction into Fiction broadcast

13th - Reading, Nairn Book Festival

26th - Catstrand, Galloway, performance of WORDS

30th -  Recording of World Service "Forum" at Science Museum, Kensington

July

9th - Recording of The Verb before audience at Broadcasting House

12th - Granta Best Of Young British Novelists event at British Library Conference Centre

August

18th - Reading Edinburgh International Book Festival

23rd - Performance of WORDS at EIBF

September

6th - Performance of WORDS, McNally Jackson bookshop, Manhattan, NY

27th - Montreal - performance of WORDS

30th - Reading, Philadelphia

October

1st - WORDS, Richmond Virginia

20th - Reading, Santa Fe

December

16th - WORDS possibly last performance for Amnesty, 17-25 New Inn Yard London.

7pm start, tickets £7, proceeds to Amnesty.