In conversation with Eleanor Catton, winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, at the UEA spring literary festival
I will host a reading, discussion and Q&A with the audience at this final event in UEA's spring literary festival.
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Creative Writing and Photography Weekend at Central Saint Martins
Diego Ferrari and I are teaching a weekend course on creative writing and photography in London, combining original creative work with photography to create combined or stand-alone projects in each medium.
Writing at the Zoo - London Zoo creative writing course
Julia Bell and I are co-teaching an innovative course (it has never been done before as far as we know!) on writing about environment, conservation and animals. The course will take place at the London Zoo this October.
Exploring Antarctica - Harrogate International Festival
As part of the Raworths Literature Festival taking place at the Harrogate International Festival, I will participate in a discussion with two other writers on writing about Antarctica.
Fiction and life - an Arvon Foundation residential course
In early July Ben Faccini and I will teach a residential writing course at the wonderful Arvon Foundation at Totleigh Barton in deepest Devon, on how we develop narratives based on our personal histories.
Wild places - imaginative writing and the environment; talk at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
I will give an open seminar in the Department of English Common Room at 17.15 on April 25th, examining the role of imagination in writing fiction, poetry and non-fiction inspired by landscape and extreme environments. All wecome. Please see poster for more detail.
Write Forward and Writing the City - talk at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Julia Bell, Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck College, and I will give a talk to Creative Writing students at Singapore's Nanyang Technological Universiy on Monday 8 April at 11.30.