Off the Shelf

Off the Shelf is Sheffield’s literary festival that takes place in October and has happened every year since 2001. The event is for both readers and writers alike, with lots of different events aimed at both markets. This year those events will include the SFSF Social 4 hosted by the Sheffield Fantasy and Science Fiction Social Club, with writer David Barnett and literary agent Amanda Rutter on Saturday 17th October. The event will include a reading by David Barnett and ask the agent questions with Amanda Rutter. Questions need to be submitted in advance. More details about this event can be found on their website: http://sfsfsocial.wordpress.com

But why limit yourself to just one event. The full list of Off the Shelf events are below (with more details on the Off the Shelf website: http://offtheshelf.org.uk/):

7^th October - 6:00PM - Karen Joy Fowler - Octagon Centre - Free

8^th October - 8:00PM - Gavin Extence in Conversation - Theatre Delicatessen - Free

10^th October - 10:00AM - The Society of Authors - Showroom Cinema - £45.00 /£35.00 (Cons)

10^th October - 11.00AM – Cityscapes - Winter Gardens - Free

10^th October - 11:00AM - Book Swap - Winter Gardens - Free

10^th October - 11:00AM - Word Life Open Mic - Winter Gardens - Free

10^th October - 12:00PM - Beginners Storytelling Workshop - The Riverside - £25.00 /£25.00 (Cons)

10^th October - 2:00PM - A Slice Of Sheffield with Susan Elliot Wright - St Aidan's Church - £4.00 /£0.00 (Cons)

10^th October - 2:00PM - Shami Chakrabarti - Human Rights and Liberty - The Foundry - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

10^th October - 3:30PM - Gary Younge - In Defence of Utopias - The Foundry - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

10^th October - 3:30PM - Reading Sheffield Website Launch - Quaker Meeting House - £2.00 /£0.00 (Cons)

10^th October - 5:00PM - Paul Mason - The Economics of Hope - The Foundry - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

10^th October - 6:00PM - Hidden History - Bank Street Arts - Free

10^th October - 7:00PM - Owen Jones- The Politics of Hope - The Foundry - £7.50 /£6.00 (Cons)

11^th October - 3:00PM - Art, Art Therapy and the Body - Showroom Cinema - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

11^th October - 6:00PM - How to Save our Town Centres with Julian Dobson - Showroom Cinema - £7.50 /£6.00 (Cons)

11^th October - 7:30PM - Renaissance One presents Caryl Phillips and Robert Antoni - The Studio - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

12^th October - 5:45PM - Technologies for Active Ageing - Showroom Café -Free

12^th October - 5:45PM - Ideas Alive - Showroom Café - Free

12^th October - 7:00PM - Two Hours - The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon with Ed Caesar -

Showroom Cinema - £7.50 /£6.00 (Cons)

12^th October - 7:15PM - A Different Kind of Courage - Quaker Meeting House - Free

12^th October - 7:30PM - Les Murray and Michael McCarthy - The Studio - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

12^th October - 7:30PM - Naxos A-Z of Singers with David Patmore - Quaker Meeting House - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

13^th October - 2:00PM - At the Coalface - Central United Reformed Church - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

13^th October - 5:45PM - Ideas Alive - Showroom Café - Free

13^th October - 5:45PM - The Meaning of Footwear in South Yorkshire - Showroom Café - Free

13^th October - 6:00PM - Delicious Gluten - Free Baking with Howard Middleton - Owen Building - £7.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

13^th October - 6:00PM - Honey & Co - Middle Eastern Themed Dinner - Sparks Restaurant - £25.00 /£0.00 (Cons)

13^th October - 6:30PM - DIY Publishing - The Hide - Free

13^th October - 7:30PM - Don't trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg - The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic Thirty - The Auditorium - £8.00 /£6.50 (Cons)

13^th October - 7:30PM - First Anniversary of Writers in The Bath - The Bath Hotel - £4.00 /£0.00 (Cons)

13^th October - 8:00PM - Lakin McCarthy presents The Other Half - Written and performed by Mark Billingham and My Darling Clementine - Yellow Arch Studios - £12.00 /£0.00 (Cons)

14^th October - 5:45PM - Ideas Alive - Showroom Café - Free

14^th October - 5:45PM - Shades of Deviance, Crime and Social Harm - Showroom Café - Free

14^th October – 6:00PM - And Crocodiles are Hungry at Night - Quaker Meeting House - Free

14^th October - 6:30PM - 'The Game's Afoot': an evening with Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle -

Carpenter Room - Free

14^th October - 7:00PM - Street View- An Evening with Photographer Jesse Alexander - The Cadman Room - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

14^th October - 7:00PM - Tracey Thorn - The Auditorium - £8.00 /£6.50 (Cons)

14^th October - 7:00PM - Andrew Miller - Showroom Cinema - £7.50 /£6.00 (Cons)

15^th October - 2:00PM - Playing with Words - Crystal Peaks Library  - Free

15^th October - 5:45PM - The Quantum Behaviour of Lobster Protein - Showroom Café - Free

15^th October - 6:00PM  - Anarchivist Tendencies with Faye Green - Bloc Projects - Free

15th October - 7:00PM - Val McDermid - Arundel Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

15^th October - 7:00PM  - Casting the Runes - Two Ghost Stories by M.R. James with Robert Lloyd Parry  - Fusion Cafe - £8.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

15^th October - 7:30PM - Abbeydale Writers Anthology Launch with Jack Sheffield - Quaker Meeting House - £3.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

15^th October - 7:30PM - Sarah Simpson's Story - Upper Chapel - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

15^th October - 8:00PM - What Are You Drinking? An Evening of Beer with Pete Brown - The Greystones - £15.00 / £14.00 (Cons)

16^th October - 7:00PM - Letter Writing Among Poets with Jonathan Ellis - Creative Lounge

£6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

16^th October - 7:00PM - Meet the Author Simon Beckett  - Frecheville Library and Learning Centre - £3.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

16^th October - 7:00PM - Being Me - One Act Play - Victoria Hall - £2.50 / £0.00 (Cons)

16^th October - 7:30PM - Poetry Light Night - Upper Chapel - Free

16^th October - 7:30PM - Dave Haslam - Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues  - The Foundry - £7.50 / £6.00 (Cons)

16^th October - 7:30PM - Speed Dating - Graves Gallery - £18.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

17^th October - 10:00AM - Fictionalising Your Own Experience Workshop - Quaker Meeting House -

£8.00 / £6.00 (Cons)

17^th October - 10:30AM - James Nash - Poetry Workshop - Central Library - Free

17^th October - 11:00AM - Cycle Write - Peace Gardens - £10.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

17^th October - 1:00PM - Rollaresque - The Rolling Stones Rock 'n' Roll Adventures with Simon Goddard - Showroom Cinema - £7.50 / £6.00 (Cons)

17^th October - 1:00PM - Imagination Gaming - Coffee Revolution - Free

17^th October - 1:15PM  - Tea with Pyjama Drama! - Children's Library - Free

17^th October - 1:30PM - It's All A Fiction - Readers' Afternoon - Quaker Meeting House - £7.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

17^th October - 2:00PM - Sheffield Beer, Brewing and Brewers  - Manor Library - Free

17^th October - 4:00PM - SFSF Social #4 - Eten Cafe - Free

17^th October - 7:30PM - The Singing and Dancing Ann Atkinson's Collected Poems - Channing Hall -

£5.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

18^th October - 11:00AM - Cycle Write - Peace Gardens - £10.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

18^th October - 12:00PM - Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells with Helen Scales - Arundel Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

18^th October - 1:30PM - Ruskin Poetry Workshop - Ruskin Museum - Free

18^th October - 2:00PM - Sheffield Castle with Lloyd Powell - Arundel Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

18^th October - 6:30PM - Mona Eltahawy - Showroom Cinema - £7.50 / £6.00 (Cons)

18^th October - 7:30PM - Stephen Kelman and Sunjeev Sahota - The Studio - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

19^th October - 2:00PM - Janet Stain: the History of the Wedding Dress - Chapeltown Library  - Free

19^th October - 2:00PM - Monkey Man & Other Sheffield Notables - Quaker Meeting House - £3.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

19^th October - 2:00PM - Walking the Literary Landscape - Crystal Peaks Library - Free

19^th October - 5:45PM - Siblings, Stories and the Self - Showroom Café - Free

19^th October - 7:00PM - The first Annual Robert Graves Society Lecture given by Roger McGough - Town Hall Reception Rooms - Free

19^th October - 7:30PM - Walking with Angels – A Talk with Melanie Gow - Creative Lounge - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

19^th October - 8:30PM - French Book Group: autour du Candide de Voltaire - Cafe Rouge - Free

20^th October - 1:00PM - Waterloo Commemorated: Napoleon, Wellington and Battle in Art - Carpenter Room  - Free

20^th October - 2:00PM - Janet Stain: the History of the Wedding Dress - Chapeltown Library - Free

20^th October - 5:45PM - Guilty Women: Gender, Foreign policy and Appeasement  - Showroom Café - Free

20^th October - 7:00PM - The Munich Art Hoard with Catherine Hickley - Arundel Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

20^th October - 7:00PM - John Godber, Helen Cross and Peter Sansom - Pennine Theatre - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

20^th October - 7:00PM - Working with Bereavement with Janet Wilson - Quaker Meeting House - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

20^th October - 7:30PM - A Celebration of Sandy Denny with Mick Houghton, Ashley Hutchings and JP Bean - The Auditorium  - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

21^st October - 10:30AM - Sheffield: Salesman to the World with Mike Spick - Firth Park Library - Free

21^st October - 1:00PM - Schools Matinee with Michael Rosen - The Crucible Theatre - £4.00 / £4.00 (Cons)

21^st October - 2:00PM - Martyn Johnson - Carpenter Room - Free

21^st October - 5:45PM - Assessing Doctors' Performance: Judging What Matters Well - Showroom Café - Free

21^st October - 6:30PM - Death and Mr Pickwick with Stephen Jarvis - Carpenter Room - Free

21^st October - 7:00PM - Extreme Adventures with Andy Torbet - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

21^st October - 7:00PM - Michael Rosen - The Auditorium - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

21^st October - 7:30PM - Mary Portas - Shop Girl - Crucible Studio - £11.00 / £9.00 (Cons)

22^nd October - 5:45PM - From Soil to Supper: How Microbes Feed the World - Showroom Café - Free

22^nd October - 7:00PM - Polly Toynbee and David Walker – Taxing Times - Pennine Theatre - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

22^nd October - 7:00PM - Blackpool Tower - a talk with Professor Vanessa Toulmin - Showroom Cinema - £7.50 / £6.00 (Cons)

22^nd October - 7:30PM - Speed Dating - Graves Gallery - £18.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

23^rd October - 9:00AM - Classical Sheffield Festival of Music - £0.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

23^rd October - 4:00PM - Looking After Your Family Papers - Sheffield Archives - £5.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

23^rd October - 6:00PM - Worktown with David Hall - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

23^rd October - 6:30PM - A Lyrical Sheffield Friday Night Ride - Sheffield City Hall - Free

23^rd October - 7:00PM - The Space Between - Bank Street Arts - Free

23^rd October - 7:30PM - The Purging of Spence Broughton - Walkley Community Centre - £4.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

23^rd October - 7:30PM - The Literature Republic of South Yorkshire - The Shakespeare - Free

23^rd October - 7:30PM - The Literature Republic of South Yorkshire - The Tom Treddlehoyle Inn - Free

23^rd October - 7:30PM - The Literature Republic of South Yorkshire - The Bridge Inn - Free

24^th October - 9:00AM - Classical Sheffield Festival of Music - £0.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

24^th October - 10:00AM - Be a Writer, See a Writer, Hear a Writer - Walkley Carnegie Library - £2.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

24^th October - 10:15AM - Poetry Business Writing Day - North Church House - £30.00 / £25.00 (Cons)

24^th October - 10:30AM - Treasure Fleet Adventures with Zheng He - Bartolome House - Free

24^th October - 10:30AM - The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley - Barnsley Central - Free

24^th October - 1:00PM - Be a Writer, See a Writer, Hear a Writer - Walkley Carnegie Library - Free

24^th October - 2:00PM - The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley - Riverside Library - Free

24^th October - 2:00PM - 101 Gins to Try Before You Die with Ian Buxton - Hallam Hall - £12.00 / £10.00 (Cons)

24^th October - 2:00PM - Poetry SHOUTING! with Kat Bradford - Devonshire Green - Free

24^th October - 2:00PM - Into Print - Greenhill Library - Free

24^th October - 3:00PM - Be a Writer, See a Writer, Hear a Writer - Walkley Carnegie Library - £3.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

24^th October- 3:30PM - John Suchet - The Last Waltz: the Story of the Strauss Dynasty - Crucible Studio - £5.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

24^th October - 5:00PM - 101 Legendary Whiskies You’re Dying to Try But (Probably) Never Will with Ian Buxton - Hallam Hall -£12.00 / £10.00 (Cons)

24^th October - 7:00PM - Be a Writer, See a Writer, Hear a Writer - Walkley Carnegie Library - £5.00 / £3.00 (Cons)

24^th October - 8:00PM - The Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot - Freeman College - £0.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

25^th October - 9:00AM - Classical Sheffield Festival of Music - £0.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

25^th October - 10:00AM - Light on Poetry - Park Community Centre - Free

25^th October - 11:00AM - Out of this World - Winter Gardens - Free

25^th October - 11:30AM - Doctor Who's Top Ten Myths and Mysteries - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

25^th October - 12:00PM - Sheffield Castle – A Guided Walk and Talk with Lloyd Powell - Lady's Bridge - £8.00 / £6.00 (Cons)

25^th October - 2:00PM - A Million Years In A Day: with Greg Jenner - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

25^th October - 4:00PM - The Three Degrees: The Men Who Changed British Football with author Paul Rees - U-Mix Centre  - Free

26^th October - 10:00AM - Children's University Live - Museums Sheffield - Winter Gardens - Free

26^th October - 1:30PM - The Man on the Moon - The Cadman Room - £3.00 / £3.00 (Cons)

26^th October - 5:45PM - The World and People of Stonebridge - Showroom Café - Free

26^th October - 6:30PM - A Mushroom Miscellany with Patrick Harding - Ecclesall Library - Free

26^th October - 7:00PM - Kate Morton - Creative Lounge - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

26^th October - 7:30PM - Sheffield A-Z with Mike Spick - Wadsley Church Hall - £0.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

27^th October - 9:30AM - Muppet Treasure Trove - The Montgomery Studio - £10.00 / £10.00 (Cons)

27^th October - 10:00AM - Children's University Live - Volunteering Activities - Winter Gardens - Free

27^th October - 10:30AM - First World War and War Horse - Kelham Island Museum - £1.00 / £1.00 (Cons)

27^th October - 11:00AM - Animation Workshop with Helen Piercy - Darnall Library - Free

27^th October - 11:00AM - Comics Workshop - Carpenter Room - Free

27^th October - 12:30PM - Muppet Treasure Trove! - The Montgomery Studio - £10.00 / £10.00 (Cons)

27^th October - 1:00PM - Animation Workshop with Helen Piercy - Parson Cross Library - Free

27^th October - 1:00PM - First World War and War Horse - Kelham Island Museum -

£1.00 / £1.00 (Cons)

27^th October - 2:00PM - Vegetable Super Heroes Workshop - Moor Market - Free

27^th October - 3:00PM - Animation Workshop with Helen Piercy - Hillsborough Library - Free

27^th October - 5:45PM - Are We Nearly There Yet? - Showroom Café - Free

27^th October - 6:00PM - You Didn't See Alice by Colin Pinney - Arundel Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

27^th October - 6:30PM - Argh! The Ups and Downs of Life as a Comic Book Creator - Carpenter Room - Free

27^th October - 7:00PM - Swallow This with Joanna Blythman - Showroom Cinema - £7.50 / £6.00 (Cons)

27^th October - 7:00PM - Josephine Butler, Patron Saint of Prostitutes – a talk with Helen Mathers - Showroom Cinema - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

27^th October - 7:30PM - Novel Slam 2015 - Bank Street Arts - £5.00 / £3.00 (Cons)

27^th October - 7:30PM - Speak Easy Off The Shelf Slam - Eten Cafe - Free

27^th October - 7:30PM - Peirene Press and the Art of Translation with Hamid Ismailov and Meike Ziervogel - Coffee Revolution - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

28^th October - 10:00AM - Exploring 1001 Nights - Upperthorpe Library - Free

28^th October - 10:00AM - Children's University Live - Imagination Gaming - Winter Gardens - Free

28^th October - 11:00AM - Spooky Songs - Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet - £2.00 / £2.00 (Cons)

28^th October - 2:00PM - The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley - Doncaster Library - Free

28^th October - 7:00PM - Born Survivors with Wendy Holden and Eva Clarke - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

28^th October - 7:00PM - Theatre Censorship in the 1960s a talk with Steve Nicholson - Creative Lounge - £6.00 / £4.00 (Cons)

28^th October - 7:30PM - The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age - Quaker Meeting House - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

29^th October - 9:30AM - Muppet Treasure Trove - The Montgomery Studio - £10.00 / £10.00 (Cons)

29^th October - 12:30PM - Muppet Treasure Trove! - The Montgomery Studio - £10.00 / £10.00 (Cons)

29^th October - 12:30PM - The Unknown Hunuman in Hindu Epics - Hindu Samaj Cultural Centre – Free

29^th October - 7:00PM - The Myra Davis Memorial Writing Competition - Quaker Meeting House – Free

29^th October - 7:00PM - Will Hutton - How Good We Can Be - Pennine Theatre - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

29^th October - 7:30PM - Boots, Fresh Air and Ginger Beer by Sally Goldsmith - Totley Library - £5.00 / £3.00 (Cons)

29^th October - 7:30PM - The Road to Publication - The Red Deer – Free

29^th October - 7:30PM - Shirley Williams - The Life of Vera Brittain - The Crucible Theatre - £12.00 / £10.00 (Cons)

30^th October - 11:00AM - Author and Illustrator Liz Million - Stocksbridge Library – Free

30^th October - 11:00AM - Stories from a Persian Carpet with Kidology Arts - Moor Market - Free

30^th October - 12:00PM - Conservation of Paper Manuscripts - Sheffield Archives - £5.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

30^th October - 1:00PM - Author and Illustrator Liz Million - Highfield Library – Free

30^th October - 3:00PM - Author and Illustrator Liz Million - Children's Library – Free

30^th October - 7:00PM - Pieces of Me - Showroom Cinema – Free

30^th October - 8:00PM - Kathryn Williams - Sheffield Cathedral - £12.00 / £10.00 (Cons)

31^st October - 10:00AM - Muppet Treasure Trove! - The Montgomery Studio - £10.00 / £10.00 (Cons)

31^st October - 10:15AM - At the Heart of Darkness: Gothic Symposium - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

31^st October - 1:30PM - Muppet Treasure Trove! - The Montgomery Studio - £10.00 / £10.00 (Cons)

31^st October - 1:30PM - Under the Skin: Film with Introduction by Michel Faber - Showroom Cinema - £8.10 / £5.90 (Cons)

31^st October - 4:30PM - Alexander McQueen - Blood Beneath the Skin with Andrew Wilson - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

31^st October - 7:00PM - Charlotte Bronte: A Life - Claire Harman - Pennine Theatre - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

1^st November - 2:00PM - The Story of Egypt with Joann Fletcher - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

1^st November - 7:30PM - 2015: The Year of Mexico in the United Kingdom: Day of the Dead Celebration - The Auditorium - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

2^nd November - 7:30PM - Everyday Life in Viking Towns 800-1100 with Professor Dawn M Hadley - The Auditorium - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

4^th November - 7:30PM - H is for Hawk with Helen Macdonald - The Auditorium - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

5^th November - 7:30PM - Simon Armitage - The Auditorium - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

6^th November - 7:30PM - The Hairy Bikers - Blood, Sweat and Tyres - Octagon Centre - £10.00 / £8.00 (Cons)

7^th November - 2:00PM - Street Detective: Sheffield's Historic Centre with Mike Spick - Central United Reformed Church - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

8^th November - 2:00PM - Pit Tales- A Promenade Performance by Loose Theatre - Barnsley Town Hall - £7.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

8^th November - 4:00PM - Pit Tales- A Promenade Performance by Loose Theatre - Barnsley Town Hall - £7.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

11^th November - 6:00PM - Journalism in Danger - Crucible Studio – Free

17^th November - 7:30PM - Mission: How the Best in Business Break Through - The Auditorium - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

2^nd December - 7:30PM - The Youth Word Up! - The Hubs - Free