News for Alison Jean Lester. See what events are coming up, and what just happened.
It’s a question so many of us have in our heads as we care for our loved ones, be they temporarily ill, or terminally so. I’m thrilled to tell you that I’ll be reading from Absolutely Delicious in an event on 2 April, in Warwick, which is bringing together readings of prose and poetry as well as song, to look at the question.
Please see here for information and tickets. And if you can’t make it, I’ll be reading in another such event in Nottingham in July.
It is with great joy that I announce the publication of Hong Kong Market Cats, a book of vibrant, tender photos by Marcel Heijnen. Marcel invited me to write the haiku that accompany the photos, and I enjoyed the collaboration so much - studying the details of his fascinating images, seeking to see what he saw, sharing with him what appeared to me.
Pictured on the cover is 'Uncle Pork' and his devoted friend.
Official website for writer Alison Jean Lester, author of Lillian on Life and Yuki Means Happiness.
19 May 2024, 11:00am-12:30pm, Grief & Death panel with five authors, Compassionate Sheffield Life, Loss & Death Festival
22 May 2024, 5-7pm, author talk with the other Alison Lester, former Children’s Laureate of Australia! At Droitwich Library.
Past
7 October 2023, 1:00-2:00pm panel on loss and memoir, When There Are No Words: Loss and Hope, at the Birmingham Literature Festival
8 July 2023, panel on self-publishing at the National Writers Conference, Birmingham
10 June 2023, talk about The Sound of It at Redditch Library, Redditch, Worcestershire
24 May 2023, 6:30-8:00pm MT, launch event for Return to the Scene of the Climb, Estes Valley Library, Estes Park, Colorado
11 February 2023, 10am-2.00pm, launch event for the Coffin Club in Margaret’s Memory, Wordsley Community Centre, Stourbridge
14 January 2023, 5-6.30pm, talk and book signing at The Heath Bookshop, Birmingham
10 December 2022, 1-3pm, Crime Writing Improv at Newcastle Noir
3 December 2022, morning and afternoon book signing at WHSmith, Droitwich
2 December 2022, 6.30-7.303pm, The Sound of It book launch at Droitwich Library
9 October 2022, 2:30pm, in conversation with Dr Kathryn Mannix at Birmingham Literary Festival
2 April 2022, 7:30pm, reading from Absolutely Delicious at What Would Love Do Now event, Warwick Unitarian Chapel
17 November 2021, 6:30pm EST, virtual launch of Glide hosted by Belmont Books in Massachusetts.
17 November 2021, 6:30pm, launch of Glide hosted by Droitwich Library.
11 November 2021, 7:30pm, launch of Glide hosted by General Office Gallery, Stourbridge.
20 August 2021, 2:30 pm, talk hosted by the Evesham Festival of Words about writing Absolutely Delicious.
11 December 2020, 3:00 pm GMT, virtual book tour, joint event with Dignity in Dying, “What Should Dying Look Like in the 21st Century?”
5 December 2020, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST, Absolutely Delicious Author Talk hosted by Hingham Public Library
10 November 2020, 6:30 pm EST, Absolutely Delicious Author Talk hosted by Belmont Books
12 January 2020, 1:30 - 5:30pm, The Victoria Literary Festismall
1 December 2018, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, Improv for Writers, Birmingham and Midland Institute,
9 Margaret Street, Birmingham B3 3BS
21 October 2018, 9:00 - 9:50 am, Improv for Writers at the Salisbury Literary Festival
20 October 2018, 7:30 pm, interview with Matt Haig at the Salisbury Literary Festival
20 October 2018, 5:00 pm, interview with Claire Fuller and Caoilinn Hughes at the Salisbury Literary Festival
8 October 2018, 7:30 pm, Word.Play.Live performance of my short story, ‘Talking About Lily May’ at The Warehouse Cafe, Birmingham
28 July 2018, 7:30, Walking in Beauty live storytelling at Theatre Delicatessen, London
9 July 2018, 5:30, discussion with the Bell Green Library reading group, Coventry
11 June 2018, 7:00, meeting with the Salt and Pepper reading group, Shropshire
26 May 2018, 2:00–4:00 pm - Improv for Writers at the Orkney Public Library and Archive
20 May 2018, 1:00–2:30 pm - Improv for Writers workshop at the Dublin International Literature Festival
8 March 2018, 6:30 pm - Yuki Means Happiness talk at Daunt Books, 51 South End Rd, Hampstead, London, NW3 2Q
4 March 2018 - Guest writer at the Salisbury Writers Circle
6 December 2017 - Creative Writing Careers Roadshow, with Writing West Midlands, at Birmingham City University
29 October 2017, 9:15 am - delivering my Improv for Writers warm-up session at the Salisbury Literary Festival
5 August 2017, 2:30pm – Two American Authors, Many Paths to Publication talk with Suz Korb at Wayland's Yard, Worcester
27 July 2017, 6.30pm - Yuki Means Happiness publication day event at Waterstones Birmingham
8 Nov 2015, 11.30 am-12.30 pm - Featured author at 'Real to Print: The Burden of Experience' at the Singapore Writers Festival
31 Oct 2015, 7:00-8:00 pm Hosting the Xinran Meet the Author session at the Singapore Writers Festival
30 Oct 2015, 8:30-9.30 pm Moderating the 'Stories from Islands, Songs from Islanders' readings at the Singapore Writers Festival
21 Mar 2015 - Markets of New York City Presents: A Literary Salon with Alison Jean Lester
30 Jan 2015, 7 pm - Book Launch, signing and discussion at the Alliance Francais Singapore.
14 Jan 2015, 7.30 pm - Speaking at Telling Stories Live at That Spare Room
8 Nov 2014, 11:30-12:30 - Moderating the 'Love Stories' panel discussion at the Singapore Writers Festival
13 Sept 2014 - Meet the author at The French Bookshop, Tiong Bahru, Singapore. 11am-1pm.
Details here.
