Forthcoming appearances:

• Reading at the Aberdeen WORD Festival, 10 May, 1pm
• Opening the Aberdeen WORD FRINGE Festival, 19 May.
• The Meadows Bar Writers Group, Edinburgh, 3 June.
• Writers Museum, Edinburgh, 25 June, 10.30 - 'Meet the Makar' '
• McSwiss - Two Writers Under One Roof', joint reading with Regi Claire, National Library of Scotland, 5 or 6 August (tba)
• Edinburgh International Book Festival, with Linda Cracknell and Angus Dunn, 17 August, 8.30pm
• Poetry Association of Scotland, The Scottish Poetry Library, 7.30
• British Council Reading tour of Italy, October. 20 June,
• Edinburgh City Chambers I will be installed (technical term!) as the new Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate). See Scotsman, 26 April: 'Former male model is Edinburgh Makar'.
• THE SOUND OF MY VOICE, dramatised by Jeremy Raison, Glasgow Citizens Theatre, 20 May - 7 June.

At present Ron is completing a new novel.
He has also recently begun a new collection of short stories.

Contact: administrator@ronbutlin.co.uk

The Sound Of My Voice
'One of the greatest pieces of fiction to come out of Britain in the 80s'
Irvine Welsh