Bloody Scotland Announces 2015 Figures, Most Successful Year Yet…
Posted at 9:10PM Monday 14 Sep 2015
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Organisers of the Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival are today delighted to announce their most successful year yet, having issued 5884 tickets over three days, and to confirm that in 2016, the festival will run from 9-11 September.
Organisers of the Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival are today delighted to announce their most successful year yet…
Authors like Martina Cole, Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, Ann Cleeves, Linwood Barclay, Arne Dahl and Peter May held court over five historic, atmospheric venues in the centre of Stirling during a packed-out, exciting and varied weekend (11-13 September 2015). The opening Friday night alone attracted over 900 audience members for two events: McDermid and May in conversation, and Whose Crime Is It Anyway, a raucous comedy event hosted by Hardeep Singh Kohli in which authors Chris Brookmyre, Caro Ramsay and Kevin Wignall improvised a crime novel live onstage.
Sold out events this year included a session examining the infamous World’s Ends Murders, an event looking at the poisons Agatha Christie used to kill her victims, a session on how to self-publish your own books, and author events with Denise Mina, Belinda Bauer and leading Nordic writers Gunnar Staalsen, Johan Theorin and Ragnar Jonasson. The festival also took over famous Stirling whisky bar The Curly Coo for a night, with songs and storytelling from authors like McDermid, Brookmyre, Lucy Ribchester and Ian Rankin at a lively, fun and completely unprecendented late night session.