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Thu 20 Jan, '22
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Warwick Thursday - Ludo Cinelli (agent)

Ludo Cinelli - Ludo is an agent and the Managing Director at Eve White Literary Agency. He joined the company in 2017, after various internships in the publishing industry. He is building and maintaining his own list of clients as well as being involved with all day-to-day aspects of running the business. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Thu 27 Jan, '22
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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres - Film Composer

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a British-Belgian film composer, rising in the neoclassical scene as one of the UK’s upcoming artists. Her work blends sound worlds with her love for the piano, orchestrated into a rich palette of electronica and classical music. She has been nominated for ‘best score’ for three of her soundtracks, winning an award for ‘best music’ for the surreal art and dance film Divided We Scroll (commissioned by the Barbican, London). Alexandra’s critically-acclaimed debut album 2 Years Stranger was described by BBC Radio 6’s Mary Anne Hobbes as “hauntingly beautiful” and The Guardian as having a “devastating emotional effect”. Alexandra has released with several labels including Piano & Coffee Records and Icelandic new classical label INNI founded by film composer Atli Örvarsson and sees merging her film scores and artist work as fundamental to her love of combining sound worlds and story-telling through music. She has performed alongside artists such as TSHA, Throwing Snow and Gabriel Ólafs and studied continuous piano techniques with Lubomyr Melnyk. Alexandra has an ongoing collaborative relationship with Her Ensemble, releasing an arrangement of Coma to celebrate International Women’s Day, joining them on stage and working on soundtrack and solo releases together. Her love of collaboration has also led to projects with artists such as violinist and composer Anna Phoebe on film score Until We Touch. Alexandra is known for reworking other artists tracks including a rework for Vanbur releasing on Human Reworked alongside Mogwai and Katie Gately and Hector Plimmer’s Next to Nothing - remixed alongside artists such as Matthew Herbert. Her first collaboration EP Ciara released at the end of 2022 with producing artist and songwriter Mara Simpson. Her most recent film collaborations extend her artist work collaborating with BAFTA Scotland-winning team Melt The Fly to create the score for Long Live My Happy Head and BAFTA Scotland-winning director Emma Davie on The Oil Machine.

Thu 10 Feb, '22
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Warwick Thursday - Rachel Conway
Rachel Conway is a Director and agent at Georgina Capel Associates. Rachel studied Comparative Literature at King’s College London and, after spending time at various publishing houses and literary agencies, joined Georgina Capel in 2010. Her list includes Dylan Thomas Prize, Orwell Prize and Waterstones Children’s Book Prize shortlisted authors, as well as winners of the Manchester Fiction Prize, Irish Book of the Year, and the YA Book Prize. Her interests range from literary and well-written commercial fiction, to thrillers, sci-fi, and books for older children and teens. She also represents a wide range of non-fiction writers, including scholars, journalists and cooks. She represents clients for their television and radio work, as well as their public appearances.
Thu 24 Feb, '22
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Warwick Thursdays - Sam Jordison (Galley Beggar Press)
Sam Jordison looks after the Guardian's Reading group and the weekly Tips, Links and Suggestions page. He is a co-director of Galley Beggar Press and the co-editor of the Crap Towns series of books.
Thu 3 Mar, '22
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Warwick Thursday - Dr Yvonne Reddick

Poet and environmental humanities scholar, Dr Yvonne Reddick, holds an AHRC Leadership Fellowship. Her work has appeared in The Guardian Review, Poetry Review and the New Statesman, and been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC North West Tonight. She is the recipient of awards from New Writing North, the Poetry Society and Creative Futures. Her publications include Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet and Magma: The Anthropocene Issue (as editor). She is a book critic for the Times Literary Supplement. Her debut collection Burning Season will be published by Bloodaxe in 2023. For her AHRC project, she has enjoyed collaborating with poets, artists and geologists, researching Seamus Heaney’s support for conservation issues, and helping people to write and plant poems on wildflower seed paper.

Thu 17 Mar, '22
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Helen McClory (Fiction Writer)

Helen McClory was raised between the Isle of Skye and Edinburgh, where she currently lives. Her first story collection On theLink opens in a new window Edges of VisionLink opens in a new window, won the Saltire First Book of the Year 2015. Her other books include Mayhem & DeathLink opens in a new window, The Goldblum VariationsLink opens in a new window, a collection of microfictions about Jeff Goldblum and you, and BitterhallLink opens in a new window. There is a moor and a cold sea in her heart.

Thu 28 Apr, '22
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Hilla Hamidi (online)

Hilla is a junior script editor for The Crown series 6, having started work on series 5 as a script assistant. Born in London, she graduated from Warwick University in 2021 with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. In 2019-20, Hilla also studied in Tokyo as part of an intercalated year abroad.

Time: 130-230

Location: Teams (online)

Thu 5 May, '22
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Cancellation of May 5th Warwick Thursday
Thu 12 May, '22
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Warwick Thursday: Helen McClory

Helen McClory was raised between the Isle of Skye and Edinburgh, where she currently lives. Her first story collection On the Edges of Vision, won the Saltire First Book of the Year 2015. Her other books include Mayhem & Death, The Goldblum Variations, a collection of microfictions about Jeff Goldblum and you, and Bitterhall. There is a moor and a cold sea in her heart.

Thu 12 May, '22
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(REGISTRATION NECESSARY - follow link) European Jewish Writers in Translation: Bilingual reading with Q & A

University of Exeter Translation! Festival 2022, in partnership with Connecting Cultures and Warwick Thursdays at the University of Warwick

Thursday 12 May, 3.30 - 5 p.m.

Register here for in-person or virtual attendance:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-jewish-writers-in-translation-tickets-318373272027 

In the summer of 2021, five European Jewish writers and five literary translators participated in a virtual residency hosted by Jewish Book Week with the support of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe. Over several weeks, writers and translators met online to discuss the translation into English of an extract from a work in progress. The languages represented were Dutch, French, German, Spanish and Polish. This event brings these writers and translators together once more to discuss the process of collaborating on the translations and the state of contemporary European Jewish writing. The event is supported by the University of Exeter and the Connecting Cultures research cluster at the University of Warwick.

The writers are: Daniella Pinkstein, Tomer Dreyfus, Dory Sontheimer, Patrycja Dołowy, Femmetje de Wind (not in attendance).

The translators are: Anna Blasiak, Alice Tetley-Paul, Chantal Wright, Rachel Toogood, Vineet Lal.

Biographies of the writers and translators can be found here:

https://jewishbookweek.com/prizes-and-awards/writers-in-translation/ 

Thu 19 May, '22
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Ümit Hussein: Translator

a Warwick graduate, will talk about her translation of Turkish writer Nermin Yɪldɪrɪm's novel Secret Dreams in Istanbul Link opens in a new window(2012), in conversation with PhD student Elif Gülez.

Thu 13 Oct, '22
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Warwick Thursday - Jessie Burton
Jessie Burton is the author of four novels, The Miniaturist, The Muse, The Confession, and The House of Fortune, and two books for children, The Restless Girls and Medusa. The Miniaturist and The Muse were Sunday Times no.1 bestsellers in both hardback and paperback, New York Times bestsellers, and Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. The Miniaturist went on to sell over a million copies in its year of publication, was Christmas no.1 in the UK, National Book Awards Book of the Year, and Waterstones Book of the Year 2014. In 2017 it was adapted as a two-part miniseries on BBC One, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Alex Hassell and Romola Garai. The Confession was an instant Sunday Times bestseller, and Radio 4 Book at Bedtime​. The House of Fortune was also a Sunday Times no.1 bestseller.
As a non-fiction writer, she has written essays and reviews for The New York Times, Harpers Bazaar UK, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, Vogue, Elle, Red, Grazia, Lonely Planet Traveller and The Spectator. Harpers Bazaar US and Stylist have published her short stories.
Her novels have been published in 40 languages.
Thu 20 Oct, '22
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Warwick Thursday - Rebecca Stott

Rebecca is a novelist, non-fiction writer, historian and broadcaster. Her fourteen books reflect her curiosity for history, archaeology, feminism, history of science, marine creatures, literature and, sometimes… ghosts. 

 

Her creative non-fiction titles include Darwin and the Barnacle (2003), Darwin’s Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists (2012) and Oyster (2003)

 

In The Days of Rain (2017)her memoir about growing up inside the closed, secretive cult called the Exclusive Brethren, won the Costa Biography Award in 2017.

 

She will be speaking to us about her third novel, Dark Earth, in which two sixth-century sisters go on the run in the ruins of Roman Londinium.

 

‘It is only when you’ve pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still want to ask.’

Thu 17 Nov, '22
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Warwick Thursday - Carmella Lowkis (novelist)

Carmella Lowkis grew up in Wiltshire and has a degree in English literature and Creative Writing from the University of Warwick.

After graduating, she worked for some years in public and academic libraries, before moving into book marketing. She is currently a Senior Marketing Executive at Vintage, Penguin Random House, and lives in North London.

Her debut novel, Spitting Gold, is set in 19th century Paris and follows two estranged sisters – formerly celebrated (and fraudulent) spirit mediums – as they come back together for one last con. It will be published in Spring 2024 by Doubleday in the UK and Atria Books in the US.

Thu 1 Dec, '22
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Warwick Thursday - Eley Williams (novelist)

Eley Williams' collection of fiction Attrib. and Other Stories (2017) was awarded the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her novel The Liar's Dictionary won a 2021 Betty Trask Award, was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and listed as a Guardian Book of the Year. Her writing is published in journals and anthologies including Modern Queer Poets, The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story edited by Philip Hensher, and Liberating the Canon edited by Isabel Waidner, with stories and serialised fiction also commissioned by Radio 4. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Thu 8 Dec, '22
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David Herd: Walk Song
Online

Poet David Herd will be reading from his new book Walk Song and talking about his poetry with Dragan Todorovic. Join us for this event on Thursday, December 8, at 13:30, on Teams.

David Herd, poetDavid Herd is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose. His 2012 collection, All Just, was described by the Los Angeles Review of Books as ‘one of the few truly necessary works of poetry written on either side of the Atlantic in the past decade’. Through, published in 2016, was a Book of the Year in The Herald newspaper. He has given readings and lectures in Europe, North America, India and Australia and has held visiting fellowships at George Mason University, Simon Fraser University and the Writing Center Gloucester, MA. He is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Kent and a co-organiser of the project Refugee Tales.

Written between 2015 and 2020, David Herd’s new collection, Walk Song, weaves in and out of the Refugee Tales project. Addressing the environments contemporary politics has made, including the border and its hostilities, the poems set out the need for a language of welcome. Through its exploration of landscape and politics, friendship and movement, the book builds, across a series of poetic sequences, towards action and hope.

Sun 17 Sep, '23 - Fri 22 Sep, '23
All-day
Venice: Staying Above the Water — Warwick Writing Programme Summer School 2023
Venice

Runs from Sunday, September 17 to Friday, September 22.

Warwick Writing Programme is organising a summer school to take place in our new space in Venice, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin. The summer school has a working title Venice: Staying Above the Water and is focused on eco-writing. It is concentrated on two conflicting processes currently unfolding in the city: on the one side is the ever-expanding tourism industry which has already produced devastating effects not only on the physical aspects of the city but—more importantly—on its social structure. Currently, Venice officially has 49,999 registered inhabitants, and this number is in constant decline (in 2020 the number stood at 55,000), while the number of Airbnb rental units is at 7,000 and growing. On the other side is the Sisyphean fight for the re-population of the historical core, for its schools, markets and communal events, without which the city will have no future. This is a perfect metaphor for the ecological situation in the world, making the project interesting not only to students of Creative Writing, but to all who are directly or indirectly engaged in the fight for a sustainable future.

Thu 12 Oct, '23
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Warwick Thursday - Week 2 - Annie Gathwaite (novelist) ONLINE - Click here for Zoom link
Thu 2 Nov, '23
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Imogen Hermes Gowar - Novelist
Imogen Hermes Gowar is an author with a particular interest in history. Her first novel, the Sunday Times bestseller The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, was a finalist for the MsLexia First Novel Award and the Deborah Rogers Prize; shortlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction and the Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of the Year Award; and longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize. It won a Betty Trask Award. Her short fiction has been included in the Virago collection HAG: Forgotten Folk Tales Retold, and the bestselling The Haunting Season. She is also the author of Eleanor, an augmented reality walking tour of medieval Norwich.

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