Category: Events

  • Fantasycon By the Sea

    Here’s Heide’s report from Fantasycon By The Sea 2016. This year’s Fantasycon was held at the Grand Hotel in Scarborough, with some events held over the road at The Royal. Accommodation and booze was priced very keenly, so there was an expectation that rooms would be shabby at best, utterly horrible at worst, but mine was…

  • Goodreads giveaway – win a paperback copy of the new Clovenhoof novel, Beelzebelle

    The new Clovenhoof novel will be out in mid-April. If you’d like to be in with a chance of winning a paperback copy, then you can enter the Goodreads Giveaway: Goodreads Book Giveaway Beelzebelle by Heide Goody and Iain Grant Giveaway ends April 16, 2016. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway

  • A Hard Day’s Write

    A Hard Day’s Write

    Join Heide Goody and Iain Grant… in a vintage phone box! They have recently been made writers in residence of this spectacular venue, so they are inviting you to join them in a writing marathon. It will coincide with the launch of their latest novel Godsquad which continues their bestselling comic fantasy series. A Hard…

  • Circ book launch events this week

    Circ book launch events this week

    We have a whole range of events to celebrate the launch of the ten-person collaborative novel, Circ. Tonight (Tuesday) – Meet the Authors – 6pm – 7pm – Library of Birmingham Come meet four of the authors, get a first-chance opportunity to hear what it was like to write a novel with ten people and…

  • Pigeon Park Press’s Birmingham Readers’ Map celebrated at spoken word event

    Pigeon Park Press’s Birmingham Readers’ Map celebrated at spoken word event

    Finding locally set fiction is always difficult, but, says local author A.A. Abbott, “Birmingham based publishers Pigeon Park Press have sought to remedy this with the Birmingham Readers’ Map. Novels, poetry and short stories all featuring a local flavour have been collected and compiled into a GoogleMaps-style map allowing book-lovers to browse and discover stories set…

  • Pigeon Park Press presents another Birmingham spoken word event

      Pigeon Park Press is pleased to announced that its sixth spoken word event, “Saints, Sinners and Fools”, will be held on 30th April at the 6/8 Kafe in Temple Row, Birmingham. The event, running from 6:30pm – 8:30pm, which is free and open to all, will showcase some of the amazing poets, writers and…

  • Stories in Winter 2014 – A spoken word event for your diary

    Did you come along to the Pigeon Park Press All Hallows’ Read spoken word event? If the answer is “yes” then you’ll no doubt want to come along to our next spoken word event, Stories in Winter, which is being held on 29th January 2014. If the answer is “no” then let us tell you…

  • Fun and surprises at the Pigeonwings launch party

    On Saturday 12th October, Pigeon Park Press held a party at the Old Royal in Birmingham to celebrate the launch of “Pigeonwings,” the latest comic fantasy from Heide Goody and Iain Grant. Following an introduction from Pigeon Park Press’s very own Martin Tomlinson (who also writes under the name of Tom Aston), Heide and Iain…

  • Pigeonwings – launch party – 12th October

      Pigeon Park Press wish to invite you to the launch of Pigeonwings by Heide Goody and Iain Grant  We’d be delighted if you could join us to raise a glass to the success of Heide and Iain’s new comic fantasy novel, Pigeonwings, sequel to the original and best-selling Satan-in-suburbia comedy, Clovenhoof. 7:30pm ’til late,…

  • All Hallows Read spoken word event – October 23rd

      Pigeon Park Press is pleased to announced that its second annual All Hallows Read spoken word event will take place in the spooky dungeon (ahem, basement bar) of the 6/8 Kafe in Birmingham on Wednesday 23rd October 6:30pm – 8:30pm. The event, which is free and open to all, exists to promote the great writers…