VANE WOMEN
We are a writing, performing and publishing collective, formed in 1991. We grew from a women's writing class at the late lamented Darlington Arts Centre in Vane Terrace.
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Sunday 22nd September
Glorious Vane Women
A double Smokestack book launch from two Vane Women, alongside a reading from Glorious Vane, an anthology celebrating 30 years of publishing by Vane Women Press, plus a poem read by Katharine Goda from Safety Measures Against the Sea.
S.J Litherland’s Marginal Future is buffeted by childhood trauma, the collapse of the Durham coalfield community and USSR, and the aftershocks of Brexit and Covid. In Being Gemini Marilyn Longstaff writes about the two sides of everything – ageing, deafness, politics and bereavement – and learning to be neither one thing nor the other.
7.30pm, The Leper Chapel Magdalen’s Road, £7.50
Marginal Future by S J Litherland
Being Gemini by Marilyn Longstaff
Glorious Vane
In 2023, Vane Women Press celebrated 30 years of publishing. We specialise in first pamphlets (poetry or short stories) of women who live in the North East of England. Since 1993, we have brought out 23 beautiful pamphlets, two full collections and seven anthologies. You can buy most of these books on Our Publications page.
To mark this milestone, we published two new books: our anniversary anthology, Glorious Vane, featuring a poem or short story from our Vane Women Press writers (see above), and our superb 24th pamphlet, Safety Measures against the Sea, a first book by Katharine Goda, published on September 5th 2023, which is available to buy on our publications page.
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