Live Read 2011: Your guide to what's happening each day


THE Liverpool Daily Post and Liverpool Echo's LiveRead 2011 online literary festival begins on Tuesday March 1 and ends on Thursday March 3 - World Book Day.

Below is the guide to the fascinating range of stories, videos, podcasts, live online chats, competitions and more that is happening each day.

Keep checking our what's on guide too, as you never know - we may through in a surprise of two!

TUESDAY March 1

Science fiction author Stephen Baxter

12-1pm: Award-winning science fiction writer Stephen Baxter answers your questions in our online live chat.

Click here to set a reminder for the chat, or here to read Stephen's biography.

Through the day

Video: Willy Russell talks about the inspirations behind Blood Brothers and his other writing in an exclusive interview

eBook: Download our first LiveRead ebook, Poetic Licence, featuring poems by Daily Post and Echo readers about everything from memories of lost loved ones to an unfortunate snail with a taste for beer

Video: Learn how to make a Mint Julep, the cocktail sipped by partygoers in F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

Competition: Win one of 15 sets of best-selling novels, including Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith and From Potter’s Field by Patricia Cornwell

Podcast: Discover how characters from books have inspired art work in The Walker’s collections. Part one: Fantine from Les Miserables

Video: Watch best-selling romantic fiction writer Jane Costello reading from her new book Girl On The Run

Get Involved: Read and then vote for what you want to happen next in Monsterocity, LiveRead’s three-day serialised story

Video: Find out how Lewis Carroll’s book Alice in Wonderland has inspired generations of artists at Tate Liverpool

Podcast: Listen to music inspired by Tennessee William’s moving memory play The Glass Menagerie

Find out what's happening on Wednesday for LiveRead 2011 >>>>

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