Susie is a writer who works with people with aphasia (a communication disability that commonly follows stroke). Her work includes: Talking about Aphasia, Aphasia Inside Out, Beyond Aphasia, and Living with Severe Aphasia. A dedicated coldwater swimmer, she's currently writing a social and cultural history of swimming. She's interviewing psychotherapist Philippa Perry.
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Nick St Aubyn is the author of Custom of the County (2010) a story set in the treacherous waters of Tudor Cornwall. He will be appearing with author and journalist Justine Picardie in the Round Room at Port Eliot House to discuss: "Drawing on the fragments of history - the hazards and rewards for the novelist."
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Tom's short story collection, The Method & Other Stories, is a Scott Prize winner being published by Salt this year. In 2009 he received an Arts Council grant to research and write a novel set on Dartmoor. He'll be reading and talking about the writing process.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt McAllester has covered conflicts in Kosovo, Israel and Afghanistan. Closer to home, he’ll be cooking and talking about Bittersweet: Lessons From My Mother’s Kitchen, his moving tribute to his mother, as well us making Oeufs en Cocotte a la Crème, baking a loaf of bread and bringing salted almonds for sample.
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Simon Jameson is an advisor to leading newspapers, television organisations and multinationals, lectures at the Royal College of Art and has appeared in the novel Citizen. He’ll be talking about post-War optimism, when happiness, fun, innocence and optimism were also for the over-fives…
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Profwriting.com, a Cornish website for aspiring writers, is showcasing the best new South West talent, bringing together leading arts groups and writers in the region for their Write Out Of The West event. Heads & Tales from Bristol will have an interactive word installation and will lead story trails around the site and Miracle Theatre will host the finale of its scriptwriting competition and invite the audience to vote for the winner.
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Rowan Somerville is the author of The End of Sleep and The Shape of Her. He has worked in television, film and radio, including making the odd documentary and some unmentionable television programmes. He will be giving a talk entitled ‘Writing about Sex and other Challenges’.
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One of the UK’s leading performance poetry organisations, Apples & Snakes are taking their recent sell-out show Forked on the road. The show comprises an electric and eclectric mix of local, national and international poets, from Zimbabwean slam poet Dikson, to ‘organic free-range’ poet Jackie Juno. Audiences can expect raucous laughter, tears of joy, deep penetrating thoughts, and even a ukulele thrown in for good measure.
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Laura has been a journalist at the Guardian since 2000 and regularly contributes to: The Word magazine, Q, Intelligent Life, Thefirstpost.co.uk, Marie Claire, Elle, Vogue and Company. She'll be reading from her new novel, Twenty-One Locks and hosting Caught By The River's Nature Book Reader – in conversation with Laura Beatty and Chris Watson on the subject of their favorite nature writings.
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Literary editor and award-winning novelist and memoirist, Diana Athill OBE has worked with some of the most important writers of the 20th century, including Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, Norman Mailer and Simone de Beauvoir. She made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs and her commitment "to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth". She recently featured on the BBC’s Imagine with Alan Yentob.
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