Bedford Readers Festival June 2010
Stephen will be leading creative writing workshops at this new festival run by the Bedford Library Service. Contact Bedford libraries on 01234 718178 for details.
Stephen May at Hay Festival
 Stephen May will be reading from his novel TAG in the Welsh Literature Tent at Hay-on-Wye Festival on Sunday June 6 from 11.00am. This is a free event celebrating 'coming of age' novels. Stephen will be reading with the ferociously talented young Welsh novelist Holly Howitt.
It takes three to tango
 Stephen's short play Ven y Va is one of six plays being performed under the banner Hebden Shorts at this year's Hebden Bridge Arts Festival.
Ven y va - a dance term meaning come and go - is a warm-hearted comedy that unexpected fall-out as a long-married couple decide to take up Argentinian tango. Their expectations of each other are challenged as they meet Esperanza, their outspoken teacher, whose constant demands that they perform with 'more heat, more passion' threaten to upset their very comfortable, very English relationship. There's plenty of good music too.
The six plays in the series have all been written by professional writers living in West Yorkshire and feature some very well known faces in the cast.
t: 01422 842684 from 9th May or
e: hbfestival@gmail.com for more information.
Crime Does Pay
 Val McDermid, the best-selling crime novelist and Stephen May are running a novel-writing course together in Scotland from Monday September 27 - Saturday October 2 2010. The course for 16 aspiring writers takes place at Moniack Mhor near Inverness and covers plot, character, structure, dialogue, and improving your chances of publication. Grants are available for those on a low income - www.arvonfoundation.org for more details.
Contact 01422 882360 or email stephen_may@ymail.com for further details. |
Stephen May's TAG was awarded the Media Wales Reader's Prize as the book on the Wales Book of the Year longlist voted the most enjoyable by readers. 