(ALC) Centre for New Writing

Beth Underdown: Love makes as many

17:30 - 19:00 6 October 2018
1918, and some women in England have gained the right to vote. A few short weeks before the armistice, the shortage of cotton has brought a strange hush to Quarry Bank mill and the…

A Celebration of Muriel Spark: with Jackie Kay, Alan Taylor and Louise Welsh

19:30 - 20:45 9 October 2018
Muriel Spark chronicled human interaction with a scalpel and razor-sharp insight. Her writing examines the aspects of our lives we try to hide, the affect stories have on the way we…

Mohammed Hanif in Conversation

19:00 - 21:00 10 October 2018
Q: What do an American pilot who’s crashed in the desert, a teenager full of money-making schemes and a dog suffering through a very bad day have in common? A: They all narrate the…

Sarah Perry: Melmoth

19:00 - 21:00 11 October 2018
Melmoth is watching and she’s coming for the guilty. They can choose to live with what they’ve done or follow Melmoth into a life of wandering. Sarah Perry’s third novel is a haunting,…

Literature Live: Nick Laird and Sasha Dugdale

19:30 - 20:45 15 October 2018
Poet and novelist Nick Laird has won the Betty Trask Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has recently published a poetry collection, Feel Free…

Literature Live: Jim Crace and Jenni Fagan

19:30 - 20:45 5 November 2018
Jenni Fagan is a novelist, poet and screenwriter. Listed as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists after her debut novel, The Panopticon, her second, The Sunlight Pilgrims,…

An Evening with Barbara Kingsolver

19:00 - 21:00 14 November 2018
‘We’re living through a scary historical moment when the most basic agreements about who we are as citizens, and how we’ll succeed in the world, are suddenly unravelling.’ Acclaimed…

Poets in the Cities: Rita Ann Higgins, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh

19:00 - 21:00 19 November 2018
Rita Ann Higgins has published eleven books of poetry, including Tongulish (2016), Ireland Is Changing Mother (2011) and Throw in the Vowels: New & Selected Poems (2005), all from Bloodaxe,…

16th Annual Rylands Poetry Reading with Marilyn Hacker

18:00 - 19:30 22 November 2018
Marilyn Hacker is the author of thirteen books of poems, including A Stranger’s Mirror (Norton, 2015), Names (Norton, 2010), and Essays on Departure (Carcanet, 2006), the…

Literature Live: Joe Dunthorne and Luke Kennard

19:30 - 20:30 26 November 2018
Joe Dunthorne’s first novel, Submarine, was translated into sixteen languages and adapted for film by Richard Ayoade. His second, Wild Abandon, won the 2012 Encore Award. The Adulterants,…

The Caroline Chisholm Reading: Ross Raisin

19:30 - 20:30 10 December 2018
This event honours the memory of writer Caroline Chisholm (MA Creative Writing, 2013), who was a valued member of the CNW community. Ross Raisin is the author of three novels: A…

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