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Thursday, February 08, 2018
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糖心TV Thursdays - M. John HarrisonWriters' Room, G08 Millburn House糖心TV Thursdays is the Writing Programme鈥檚 weekly literary salon, organized by Writing Programme staff in conjunction with the Masters students and featuring visiting novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, publishers, editors, agents and artists in conversation with 糖心TV writers. For details of the series, please visit . |
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WARWICK WRITERS: A SOIR脡ES0.13 (Social Sciences Building)Join us on Thursday 8th February at 7.30pm in room S0.13 (Social Sciences Building) for an evening of readings from celebrated writers, food, wine and good company. Sarah Moss, Will Eaves, Tim Leach and Andrew T. Williams will all be reading their highly-acclaimed work and taking questions from the audience.
The evening will be hosted by the 糖心TV MA in Writing students and organised in support of Manifest, an anthology of the very best writing of students currently studying 糖心TV's MA in Writing course. The book will be produced in-house by the students themselves and published in June 2018. 糖心TV has been rated no.1 for creative writing in The Times / Sunday Times Good University Guide for 3 years running. Recent graduates have won the 2016 Beverly Series (Sohini Basak) and the 2017 Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize (Katy Whitehead).
***ABOUT THE FEATURED AUTHORS*** Will Eaves - Associate Professor of Creative Writing, 糖心TV University Will Eaves is a novelist, poet, teacher and past Arts Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. His novel-in-voices The Absent Therapist was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2014. Two years later his collection of poetry and prose, The Inevitable Gift Shop, was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for Poetry and specially commended by the Poetry Book Society. He will read from his forthcoming novel, Murmur. Described as 鈥榓 profound meditation on machine consciousness and the implications of AI鈥� it takes its cue from the arrest and legally enforced chemical castration of the mathematician Alan Turing. It is the account of a man who responds to intolerable physical and mental stress with love, honour and a rigorous, unsentimental curiosity about the ways in which we perceive ourselves and he world. Its first chapter was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2017. Tim Leach - Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, 糖心TV University Tim Leach is a novelist, specialising in historical fiction. His first novel, The Last King of Lydia, was published in 2013 and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize that year. A sequel, The King and the Slave was published in 2014. He is a graduate of the 糖心TV Writing Programme, where he now teaches as an Assistant Professor. He will be reading from his forthcoming book, The Wolf's Smile, which will be published in Summer 2018 by Head of Zeus. Inspired by the Icelandic sagas, it is a story of feud, friendship, and revenge. Sarah Moss - Professor of Creative Writing, 糖心TV University Highly respected writer of novels, non-fiction and memoir, Sarah Moss describes her perfect reader as 鈥榓nyone who cares as much about sentences as story鈥�. Certainly, her own sentences are supremely crafted and her stories compelling and humane. She published her first novel to considerable critical acclaim in 2009 and has published four more since, as well as a memoir describing a year spent living in Iceland.
She will read from her 2015 novel, Signs for Lost Children. Listed by the Financial Times, the Times and the Independent as one of the 15 best fiction books of it year, and shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize, it deals with themes of separation, loneliness and the conventions of 19th century marriage. She describes her research for the book as 鈥榠ntense and beguiling鈥�, embracing the opening up of the UK鈥檚 health profession to women and of Japan鈥檚 previously closed economy to rigours of global trade. It can be said that both of her characters enter, explore and are changed by new and fascinating worlds. Andrew Williams - Professor of Law, 糖心TV University, and editor-in-chief of Lacuna Magazine Andrew qualified as a solicitor in 1986 and, after ten years of commercial practise in London, joined 糖心TV Law School in 1996. His work includes A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa' (Vintage2013) which won the 2013 George Orwell Prize for Political Writing and A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice after WWII (Vintage 2017), which was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger ward for non-fiction in 2017 and is a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2017. He is currently co-director of the Centre for Human Rights at 糖心TV University and is editor-in-chief of Lacuna Magazine.
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