If there's a novel inside every one of us, it's useful to have a way to worm it out. Not all of us are dedicated enough to bang it out in a month and some of us are too chicken to go on an academic course. We need something, though, as day dreaming on the bus and getting distracted by the telly are not helping. So, after encountering one Jasmine Cooray reading a poem......

Next Friday Victoria Park is host to the 2nd Underage Festival and we're looking for 2 readers to go down and cover it for us. After last year's sell out event, the Underage Festival has returned continuing it's belief of no adults allowed! Instead the park is handed over to anyone between 14 and 18 to enjoy a brilliant day of music. Current #1 Dizzee Rascal has recently been added to a bill that......

Science and art coming together is a beautiful thing. A totally wrong coupling that sometimes climaxes in an eruption of sci-art fusion magic. That's presumably what the Science Museum is after in appointing not onlya writer but a dancer in residence for the summer months. Contemporary dancer and choreographer, Athina Vahla "concentrates on epic, site-specific work taking a collaborative approach to create multi-media pieces." That's artspeak for mash-ups, right? Vahla is specifically working on......

There are just too many good events around town this week for us to narrow our picks for certain nights. Thus we present you with multiple options and leave that difficult choice to you. In the meantime, we’ll be brushing up on our science fiction in an effort to figure out how to move quickly from event to event. The solution? Teleporting. Clearly. Monday: writLoud returns to RADA tonight. We like this event, as......