Writing History will be the theme of our first Literary Night of the academic year at Working Men's College in central Camden. We are delighted to announce an impressive list of high calibre authors who will read from their books and answer questions. So come and meet them, hear them read, buy their books.

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http://www.wmcollege.ac.uk/pages/event-literary-night-creative-wriiting.aspx

The event will be chaired by Lucy Popescu, Author of The Good Tourist (pub. by Arcadia Books).

There will be a cash bar available on the night.
This is a FREE event open to the public. See details on how to book a seat below.

AUTHORS

Emma Darwin was born in London and grew up partly in Manhattan before studying Drama and Theatre Arts at university. Her debut novel The Mathematics of Love, described as ‘Historical romance, Gothic tale and Bildungsroman’, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Best First Book, among other prizes. In her second novel A Secret Alchemy Emma writes about the Princes in the Tower, vividly recreating the world of the War of the Roses. She also blogs at This Itch of Writing. Emma will be reading from both her novels.

Martina Evans is an Irish poet and novelist. She has published nine books of prose and poetry. Facing the Public, her fourth poetry collection was a TLS Book of the Year and received the Piero Ciampi International Poetry Prize in 2011. Petrol a dramatic prose poem was published by Anvil Press in September 2012 and Burnfort Las Vegas will be published by Anvil Press in early 2014. Martina will be reading from her poems based on Irish history.

Gabriel Gbadamosi is an Irish-Nigerian poet, playwright, writer and critic. His plays include Shango, Hotel Orpheu, and for BBC Radio 3, The Long, Hot Summer of '76, which won the first Richard Imison Award. Gbadamosi previously presented Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 and Art Beat on the BBC’s World Service. He lives, and grew up, in London. Gabriel will be reading from his debut novel Vauxhall about an Irish-Nigerian schoolboy growing up in 1970s London.

Sue Gee is the author of nine previous novels, including The Mysteries of Glass, long-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction, and Reading in Bed (2008), which also received wide acclaim; and a short story collection, Last Fling (2011). She is a mentor on the Write to Life programme at Freedom from Torture, and teaches at the Faber Academy. Sue will be reading from her latest novel, Coming Home, about an English couple, newly returned from India, trying to establish themselves and raise a family in 1950s rural Britain.

Lloyd Shepherd is a former journalist and digital producer who has worked for the Guardian, Channel 4, the BBC and Yahoo. His debut novel, The English Monster, was shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. He will be reading from his latest novel, The Poisoned Island, historical crime fiction set in the Georgian era involving daring sea voyages, Enlightenment scientists, the paranormal, botany and Kew Gardens.

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It sounds an amazing evening. All for free too. I need to move to London!

Ooh, that does sound interesting.

This sounds brilliant and am going to try hard to come. Good luck with it!

Thanks FV, and hope to see you there!

Emma, how did this event go? Would love to hear a bit more about it...

Yes, it was great fun - ten minutes reading for each of us, tho' I was reading from TMOL and ASA, so I did them separately. IT's always fascinating to hear such a range of different writing.

It's a lovely monthly event, always themed in some way - Lucy Popescu who curates it is so good at finding new writers and established ones, short and long fiction and poets, to make a good evening, and then a chance for the audience and the writers to chat and buy books and have another glass of wine - and then everyone ends up in the pub till closing time!

ooh, sounds gorgeous- what a lovely informal feel to it from what you say, too. Would Lucy want to do a Q and A/blog post or something for us at WW do you think?

I wouldn't be surprised. I'll WWmail you her details.