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Bloc on Facebook

Not content to tweet and post on our new site, we’re on Facebook too now. Please be our friend. We need all the friends we can get   We’ll use Facebook to keep you informed of all our writery goings on. And play Farmville.

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Special shows

If you would like to be kept up to date with Writers’ Bloc events and receive an occasional story in your mailbox, contact the embassy and ask to be added to the mailing list. We will not pass your email address on, although we may at some point be infiltrated by MI5.

  • Underword (Free Fringe show hosted by Gavin Inglis, August 2009)
  • Mutant Scum (Genomics Forum, 2nd July 2009)
  • Unreliable Narratives (tePOOKa, 8th April 2009)
  • Print Factory (Owl and Lion, 1st October 2008)
  • Better Read than Dead (West Port Book Festival, 14th August 2008)
  • Better Read than Dead (Writers With Bite, 17th May 2007)
  • Operation Porty (Portobello, 22nd Feb 2006)
  • Better Read than Dead (for Barnardo’s, 16th Feb 2006)
  • A Tale of Two Titans (with Glasgow SF Writers’ Circle, 15th Dec 2005)
  • Short Sharp Shocks (Edinburgh Rush Festival, 27th May 2005)
  • Better Read than Dead (Edinburgh Rush Festival, 25th May 2005)
  • Writers’ Bloc vs. the Yellow Café (Leith Festival, 10th June 2004)
  • Fishy Tales (Leith Festival, 10th June 2003)