Category: Events

  • Virtual Launch Party

    When we launched Clovenhoof we had a launch party. A real one, in the physical world. It was a lot of fun, and we sold some books and felt like rock stars for the evening. We’ll be doing it again for the new book, Pigeonwings. We love a party and want to share the fun…

  • Podcast of Saints, Sinners and Fools

      Iain Grant reads a short story at Saints, Sinners and Fools If you weren’t able to make it to Saints, Sinners and Fools, then checkout this podcast: http://www.mixcloud.com/PigeonParkPress/pigeon-park-press-saints-sinners-fools/ It was created for us by Paul McHale and you can see more of his work on his website here: http://olddeadeye.com/

  • Saints, Sinners and Fools – Spoken Word Event

      Pigeon Park Press is pleased to announced that its third spoken word event, “Saints, Sinners and Fools”, will be held on 24th April at the 6/8 Kafe in Temple Row, Birmingham. The event, running from 6pm to 9pm, which is free and open to all, will showcase some of the amazing poets, writers and…

  • Notttingham Festival of Words – running our collaborative writing workshop

    We’ve run our collaborative writing workshop a few times now, so we were looking forward to its first outing of 2013 at Nottingham’s first Festival of Words. There was a system of pre-booking, so we asked the day before how many people had booked onto our workshop. Two, they said, and one of those hadn’t…

  • ‘Stories in Winter’ reviewed

    Stories in Winter on 30th January was a second great success for Pigeon Park Press’s programme of spoken word events. However, why should we tell you how fantastic it was when we can let other people do it for us? UoB Blogfest said: “…a rich and varied bill kept a full house for the duration…

  • Pigeon Park Press to host Sitcom Writing Workshop

      Pigeon Park Press will be hosting an exciting one-off workshop. “Comedy and Other ‘C’ Words – How to Write a Sitcom” Keith R Lindsay will be running the workshop, bringing years of accumulated wisdom. He has written for on Birds of a Feather, Only Fools and Horses and The Green, Green Grass. He has…

  • Winter Stories in the heart of Birmingham

    We at Pigeon Park Press are very much looking forward to the Stories in Winter spoken word event on 30th January. It is being held from 6pm – 9pm at the recently refurbished 6/8 Kafe on Temple Row in Birmingham. Our almost entirely full programme of poets and storytellers includes James Brogdan, Mark Faulkner, Luke…

  • Stories in Winter – Spoken word event

    Following the wonderful success of the Pigeon Park Press All Hallow’s Read spoken word event, we’re holding another.   Stories in Winter will be held in the wintry grotto (aka basement) of the 6/8 Kafe in Birmingham on Wednesday 30th January 6pm-9pm.  The event, which is free and open to all, exists to promote the great…

  • Loughborough Literary Salon

    Last Friday, Heide and I were invited to speak about our experiences of collaborative writing and publishing at Loughborough University. Frankly, I think we were only invited along because the guy from Angry Robot couldn’t make it. We approached it with the utmost honesty about the smallness of our operation. In fact, Heide kicked me…

  • All Hallow’s Read event – Great Success

    The inaugural Pigeon Park Press spoken word evening was a wonderful successful. The audience for the All Hallow’s Read event filled the performance space at the lovely 6/8 Kafe in Birmingham. Katharine d’Souza The two hour event featured stories and poetry from the likes of Katharine d’Souza (author of Park Life), Mark Faulkner (author of…