02/09/2024
SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT - LFoW Book Fair
Sat. 5th October, 1pm at the Millpool Centre
Crafting a Sense of Place
with Clare Howdle, Emma Timpany and Gareth Rees
Join Clare, Emma and Gareth for a discussion about the challenges, joys and purpose of producing Twelve Stories for Twelve Sections, a new anthology of stories by Cornwall-based writers for the Cornwall National Landscape and published by Hermitage Press. Expect a deep dive into the nuts and bolts of the writers’ craft, with a focus on the methods, techniques and tools employed to create a powerful sense of place. All three authors will read extracts from their work, featured in Twelve Stories, and there will be the opportunity for questions from the audience.
Clare Howdle is a writer and editor who lives by the sea and is drawn to its stories. Her fiction has been listed for the Lucy Cavendish Prize, the Grindstone Literary Prize, the Masters Review Short Story Prize and the Bath Short Story Award. Her stories have been published in The Sunday Times, Potshot, Litro, Riptide and more. She's currently working on her first novel.
Emma Timpany was born and grew up in the far south of New Zealand and has lived in Cornwall for twenty years. Her publications are the short story collections Three Roads, Cornish Short Stories: A Collection of Contemporary Cornish Writing (co-editor), The Lost of Syros and Over the Dam, and a novella, Travelling in the Dark. Her writing has won awards including the Society of Authors' Tom-Gallon Trust Award.
Gareth Rees is a writer and editor living in Truro, Cornwall. His short fiction has appeared in literary journals Aloe, Field and Meat and has been broadcast on The Writers' Block podcast. Twelve Stories for Twelve Sections, commissioned by Cornwall National Landscape and published by Hermitage Press, which he edited and contributed to, is currently being produced as a series for BBC Radio Cornwall. A novella, Give Him a Little Earth, is scheduled for publication in October, and he's putting the finishing touches to a novel. A recent graduate of Manchester Metropolitan University’s MFA Creative Writing programme, he's about to embark on a PhD exploring ‘Contemporary Approaches to the Neo-Victorian Novel’.
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