NEWS & EVENTS
Meet Jonathon Davidson
November 09, 2016
Jonathan Davidson, Chief Executive of Writing West Midlands, came to speak at Newman University about organising and managing the Birmingham Literature Festival. We managed to ask him a few questions about the ingredients for a successful literary event, and more!
The Good Immigrant
October 13, 2016
What does it mean to be a Good Immigrant? Read my article based on The Good Immigrant talk which I attended with Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant book and other writers who contributed to the essays who were on the panel too, exploring race and lack of diversity in publishing in the UK.
I will explore what it means to be a person representing the BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) community in publishing today and my personal experience of the literary event itself.
What Haunts the Heart/Cristina Sanchez-Andrade
October 08, 2016
The Birmingham Literature Festival is one of Birmingham's biggest literary event. Come and read my experiences of some of this year's events; What Haunts the Heart, a collections of short stories about haunting, written by writers of the West Midlands; and Cristina Sanchez-Andrade's discussion about her new novel, The Winterlings.
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The Gift of the Gab
October 06, 2016
Ever thought about how you could be more eloquent?
Neither did I until I met David Crystal, a renowned linguist who may occasionally moonlight as a comedian considering his brilliantly hilarious performance, as he gave the audience an insight on his understanding of eloquence.