Monday May 9
In Conversation with… Poets
Crown Street Library, Darlington 7pm
Tickets: £5 per person (tickets can be purchased on the door or booked in
advance by contacting Tracey
Iceton: traceyiceton@hotmail.co.uk
07773 797817
Join three published poets, Natalie Scott, Becky Cherriman and Mel
McEvoy, for an evening of poetry readings and conversation about the art of
poetry and the ‘business’ of being a poet. Chaired by Tracey Iceton.
Becky Cherriman is a writer, workshop leader and performer based
in Leeds. Published by Mslexia, New Walk, Envoi,Mother’s Milk,
Well Versed and Bloodaxe, she was resident poet for Morley
Literature Festival in 2013.
Natalie Scott is a published poet and qualified
teacher with a PhD in Creative Writing. She is a member of Lapidus and is
currently training with the International Federation for Biblio/ Poetry Therapy
to become a Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator. Her first full-collection Berth
– Voices of the Titanic (Bradshaw Books, 2012) received runner-up for
the Cork Literary Review Manuscript Competition 2011.
Mel cEvoy is a published poet. His first collection, An Emptied Space, was published by Mudfog in 2012. His
poems sharply reflect the rural Ireland of the 1950s shown through the
heartbreaking lives of his parents.
Monday May 16
In Conversation with… Historical Fiction writers
Crown Street Library, Darlington 7pm
Tickets: £5 per person (tickets can be purchased on the door or booked in
advance by contacting Tracey
Iceton: traceyiceton@hotmail.co.uk
07773 797817
Join three published historical novelists, Michael Cawood Green, Andrew
Crumey and Tracey Iceton, for an evening of readings from their historical
fiction and conversation about the craft of researching and writing historical
novels. Chaired by John Dean
Michael Green is Professor
in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and a distinguished Fellow of the University of
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His research interests
include the uses of history in fiction, which is the subject of his influential
monograph Novel Histories: Past, Present,
and Future in South African Fiction.
Andrew Crumey is former
literary editor of Scotland on Sunday and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
at Northumbria University. His seven novels have been published internationally
to critical acclaim. He has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black and other
awards, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and was winner of the Saltire Prize
for his debut novel, Music, In A Foreign Language, set in an alternative
communist Britain. His latest novel, The Secret Knowledge, tells of a
rediscoved musical masterpiece with a sinister legacy.
Tracey Iceton is an author and
creative writing tutor from Teesside.
Now studying for her creative writing PhD at Northumbria University, she
is a qualified English teacher experienced in delivering creating writing
courses and workshops and has an MA in Creative Writing from Newcastle
University. Green Dawn at St Enda’s,
her debut historical novel and part one of her Irish Trilogy, will be published
by Cinnamon Press in 2016 with parts two and three following in 2017 and 2019
with plans for a fourth novel, Rock God
Complex: The Mickey Hunter Story, to appear in 2020.
Monday
May 23
In
Conversation with …..crime and thriller writers Mike Beck, Roger Barnes, Bud
Craig and Pam Plumb, the final evening in the festival’s In Conversation With
published writers series.
Crown
Street Library 7pm
Chaired
by crime writer John Dean, the authors will chat about their work.
Ticket
£5 on the door.
Mike
Beck wrote the crime novel Harry’s Torment, Roger Barnes has written three
thrillers, the most recent of which is Snow Birds, Bud Craig is the author of
three crime novels, the most recent being Falling Foul and Pam Plumb, pictured, wrote Akos
Novus.
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