I thought it would be useful to give you all a bit more detail about the authors who have put together our amazing, eclectic anniversary events.
Tonight, our Three Takes on Place, started as three separate event proposals, perhaps given our propensity for what is apparently known as ‘psychogeography’ (not entirely sure what it is, but if the cap fits…).
Diana Melissa & Sherry
We’ve published all the authors in at least one of our Solstice Shorts anthologies, and Diana is also in our bilingual Cymraeg/English poetry anthology A470. They all have work forthcoming – Melissa Davies’s The Arctic Diaries in April this year, and Diana Powell’s Ravellings and Sherry Morris’s Another Motherland on a promise for our next-but-one funding bid.
The writers live in Cumbria, Wales and Scotland, and Melissa (Cumbria) writes about Norway, and Sherry (Scotland) writes about her native America, Ukraine (where she lived for a while) and her adopted scotland, and Diana writes about Wales. And I don’t mean travel writing, I mean poetry and mythology and humour and that weird stuff that we are so fond of that is hard to categorise. With such a wide ranging spread of places to write and talk about, I asked how they felt about collaborating, even though it would mean whatever fees they made would be shared.
They have put so much work into this event, and decided to make it a donation option, so its as cheap as you need it to be.
There really is something special about our authors, they are so keen to share their ideas and generous with their time.
Saturday 07/01/2023 11:00-13:00 
Saturday 07/01/2023 17:00-19:00 Readings from authors
Sunday 08/01/2023 19:00-21:00 
Friday 13/01/2023 19:30-21:00 
Saturday 14/01/2023 11:00-13:00 workshop 
Saturday 14/01/2023 15:00 reading/open mic/discussion 
Sunday 15/01/2023 15:00-16:30 
Tuesday 17/01/2023 19:00-20:30 
Saturday 21/01/2023 12:00-1:30 
Saturday 21/01/2023 15:30-17:00 
Thursday 26/01/2023 19:00-20:30 
Friday 27/01/2023 18:30-20:00 
Sunday 29/01/2023 11:00-13:00 discussion/reading 
Sunday 29/01/2023 15:00-16:30 workshop Saira Aspinall
