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Wednesday 14th February, 2001
Aled Lewis Evans presents Valentine Poems Stories in the Park. Bellevue Park, Wrexham. 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm. Further details from: Alistair Hemphill, 07808 787765

Monday 19th February, 2001
OLIVER REYNOLDS, reading and discussing his work
The Academi in partnership with the University of Wales, Bangor. The Faber poet returns, author of Skevington's Daughter, The Player Queen's Wife, The Oslo Tram and Almost. The British Hotel, Bangor, Gwynedd. 8.30pm. Further details from: Ian Gregson, School of English & Linguistics, 01248 351151

Friday 23rd - Sunday 25th February, 2001
The Academi and Welsh Union of Writers' Joint Conference. Ireland and Wales - Telling the New Story. Speakers: Dermot Bolger, Anne Comerford, Patrick Crotty, Grahame Davies, Paul Durcan, Paul Flynn MP, Patrick Galvin, Harri Pritchard Jones and Peter Stead. Lectures, Discussions, Readings and Workshop. All sessions are open to the public. Conference price: £145.00 inclusive. White's Hotel, Wexford, Ireland. Please reserve your place by 5th January, 2001. Further details from the Academi, 029 2047 2266, post@academi.org

Tuesday 27th February, 2001
FOR THE UNPUBLISHED
Check out what's not made it to the bookshelves yet. For those interested in reading in front of an audience, perhaps for the first time, there's a chance to book a five-minute floor slot. For the curious the event is entirely free. The Plough Inn, The Roe, St Asaph, Denbighshire. 7.30pm. Call Wena Grant, the Academi's north-east Wales Fieldworker on 01824 708 218 for more information or to book your slot

Monday 12th March, 2001
CAROL RUMENS, reading and discussing her work
The Academi in partnership with the University of Wales, Bangor. The former editor of Quarto and Literary Review Rumens has published ten volumes of poetry including Thinking of Skins and The Miracle Diet. The British Hotel, Bangor, Gwynedd. 8.30pm. Further details from: Ian Gregson, School of English & Linguistics, 01248 351151

Friday 23rd - Sunday 25th March, 2001
Wales 2001: The Re-Imagined Nation
. The 14th annual conference organized by the Association for the Study of Welsh Writing in English, at Gregynog, is to be devoted to considering the ways in which Wales culturally constructs itself, both now and in the past. Speakers at the conference include leading writers, critics and artists. Friday 23 - Chris Meredith & Richard John Evans. Saturday 24 - Professor Jeremy Hooker, Anne Price-Owen, Dr Jeni Williams, Dic Edwards, Dr Sandra Anstey, Victor Golightly, Chris Wigginton, Iwan Bala. Sunday 25 - Kirsti Bohata, Dr Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Ned Thomas & Professor Stephen Knight.
Conference fees: £40 (Registered Research Students), £108 (All Others), £20 (Day Rate), £55 (Full Board). Further details and booking form available from Jane Aaron, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL. Tel: 01443 482657. Email: jaaron@glam.ac.uk

launching in April
The Academi Cardiff International
Poetry Competition 2001

£5000 in prizes. Judges: Les Murray & Gillian Clarke. Closing date for entries 1 November, 2001. Try yours - £4.00 a poem - original, unpublished work only. For more information send SAE to P O Box 438, Cardiff CF10 5YA

Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd April, 2001
THE SECOND ACADEMI TY NEWYDD LITERATURE FESTIVAL
Poetry, prose, performance and more in Llanystumdwy. Watch this space. Further information and festival brochure available soon

Sunday 10th June, 2001
LITERARY LUNCH
The Academi's Annual Literary Lunch at Portmeirion. 12.30 pm. Further details to follow

Thursday 28th June, 2001
Llandudno Midsummer Festival: Poetry Competition adjudication and readings with Edmund Cusick. With guitat music from Jonathan Richards. Washington Hotel, Craig-y-don, Llandudno. 10.30 am. Further details of this event and the Competition from: Catrin Hobson, 01248 354206