http://www.writers-online.co.uk APRIL 2020^43WHAT’S ON
The Spring School at Newcastle
Centre for the Literary Arts (30
Mar-3 Apr) presents Bodies of
Evidence: Life Writing and the
Material World, a week of intense
creative practice tutored by John-
Paul Flintoff, Cal Flyn, Daisy Hay
(pictured) and Rachel Hewitt,
focusing on using objects, bodies
and places to tell the stories of
human lives.
Website: https://writ.rs/
nclabodiesofevidenceThe prolific and much-loved
author Alexander McCall
Smith will discuss his career in A
Celebration of a Writing Life, at
the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford
on 3 April as part of the Oxford
Literary Festival.
Website: https://
oxfordliteraryfestival.org/Join the double Booker winner Hilary
Mantel as she launches the third novel in her
Tudor trilogy, The Mirror and the Light at a
Literature Live event in Manchester on 19
April hosted by Kamila Shamsie.
Website: https://writ.rs/
eveningwithhilarymantel
Legacy Centre of
Excellence in
Aston celebrates black
authors across
all genres of literature
on 25 April at
the Black British
Book Festival.
Website: https://writ.rs/bbbfEvents and activities to encourage children
to read for pleasure at Blackburn Library
for Blackburn Children’s Literature
Festival from 23 to 25 April.
Website: https://blackburncrf.com/Some good
ideas here!!
This looksgreat!Cambridge Literary Festival’s
spring edition takes place between
16 and 19 April and includes a
Climate Crisis series of events guest curated
by Caroline Lucas MP, including a talk with
The Uninhabitable Earth author
David Wallace-Wells. Website:
http://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.comHistorian Jill Liddington, whose
research inspired the BBC /HBO series
Gentleman Jack, traces Anne Lister’s
story through the lens of LGBT+
history at Writing Anne Lister: An
LGBT+ History, at the Portico Library
in Manchester
on 30 April.
Website:
https://writ.rs/
writingannelisterLegacy Centre of
Excellence in
Aston celebrates black
authors acrossWriter’s
coffee date!?