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SUMMARY:Writing Classy Places: Creative writing workshop at Reading Central Library with Lisa Blower
DESCRIPTION:Part of ‘Class in Publishing and Print’ \nWriting Classy Places  \nJoin prize winning author Lisa Blower for a creative writing workshop on how to draw class into place and create places because of class. Lisa will discuss her own fiction and offer personal tips on how to generate believable settings and the lives within them.\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but places are limited. Please register here to book your place.\n\nBio: \nLisa Blower is a prize-winning short story writer and novelist. She won the Arnold Bennett Prize in 2020 for It’s Gone Dark over Bill’s Mother’s – a collection of stories that draws from her Potteries childhood and the chattering of matriarchs she grew up with. She is the author of 2 novels – Sitting Ducks (2016) which was shortlisted for The Rubery\, the Guardian’s Not the Booker and the People’s Book Prize\, and Pondweed (2020)\, a road trip in the slow lane from Stoke to Snowdon via pints\, pitches\, and pit stops. She won The Guardian’s National Short Story Competition in 2009\, has been shortlisted for the BBC Short Story award\, The Sunday Times Short Story Prize\, and The Bridport Prize. She holds a PhD in Creative & Critical Writing and is Programme Leader & Senior Lecturer in Creative & Professional Writing at Wolverhampton University.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/creative-writing-workshop-at-reading-public-library-with-lisa-blower/
LOCATION:Reading Central Library\, Abbey Square\, Reading\, Berkshire\, RG1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Class in Publishing and Print: ceilings\, inequalities\, diversities
DESCRIPTION:CBCP Annual Conference \nThis conference at the University of Reading brings together academics\, writers\, publishers and agents to explore the relationships between publishing genres\, printing\, national and regional diversity\, readers\, business decisions and social class. \nRegistration is free but places are limited and will be available on a first come\, first served basis. Click here to book your place. \nKeynote Speakers: \n\nProfessor Katy Shaw\, Northumbria University\nLisa Blower\, author\nNatasha Carthew\, writer and founder of Working Class Writers Festival\nEmma Shercliff\, literary agent\nProfessor Dave O’Brien\, University of Sheffield\n\nSocial class has long been a barrier for writers from working-class backgrounds to getting into print. From D. H. Lawrence to James Kelman\, Buchi Emecheta to Pat Barker\, working-class writers have been told to edit and revise dialect\, style and characters to get their work published in the literary mainstream. \nThanks to austerity policies and the erosion of the welfare state\, barriers to entry in the creative industries are higher than ever (see Panic! Social Class\, Taste and Inequalities in the Creative Industries by Brook\, O’Brien and Taylor\, 2018). Prompted by today’s inequalities and the systemic barriers to entry in the cultural and creative industries\, interest in contemporary working-class writing is at a high and publishers are trying to address the “class ceilings” and regional biases in their own workforces. \nThe conference will take place in-person with one online panel. Please note that the schedule is subject to change according to University COVID-19 guidance and advice. We will inform all speakers and attendees of any changes in advance of the conference as soon as possible. \nFor the full programme and further details see here: Class in Publishing and Print Conference Document_NW BEST (1) \n 
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/class-in-publishing-and-print-ceilings-inequalities-diversities-2/
LOCATION:University of Reading\, London Road Campus
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SUMMARY:Leverhulme Lecture: The Arcade in Arcadia -  Thomas Bewick\, Children’s Books\, and Rural Readers in Enlightenment England
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Kristin Bluemel\, Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Newcastle University\, as she explores the work of eighteenth-century artist\, writer\, and naturalist Thomas Bewick. This talk will explore the ways in which Bewick’s illustrations and the appeal of his work to children were fundamental in establishing nineteenth-century ideas of the rural. Famous for wood engraved books of natural history—especially the two volume A History of British Birds—Bewick won the hearts of children with his tail-pieces (“tale-pieces”) of rural life\, which appeared in the white spaces at the ends of his book chapters. The talk will be accompanied by a short tour led by Curator of MERL Collections\, Dr Ollie Douglas.  \nProfessor Bluemel’s Leverhulme project puts the rural back at the heart of our thinking about culture\, and develops the emerging\, interdisciplinary field of ‘rural humanities’.  \nBewick’s work invites us to consider how people in the past cared for their natural and human heritage. It highlights the importance of creativity in shaping how we respond to a changing world. \nThis event is a collaboration between CBCP and the Museum of English Rural Life. It will take place at the MERL. Registration is free and open to all\, but spaces are limited. Please register here. \n \nImage: Thomas Bewick vignette at the end of the introduction to “The Predatory Gulls” section in A History of British Birds\, Vol. II\, Water Birds\, first published 1804. Child readers would have noticed the lost hat\, whose replacement will take more out of the damp traveller’s pocket than any toll. This image is from the 1826 edition\, p. 228.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/leverhulme-lecture-the-arcade-in-arcadia-thomas-bewick-childrens-books-and-rural-readers-in-enlightenment-england/
LOCATION:Museum of English Rural Life\, 6 Redlands Road\, Reading\, Berkshire\, RG1 5EX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Poetry Workshop at Reading Central Library: Embodied Imagery with Golnoosh Nourpanah
DESCRIPTION:Part of ‘Class in Publishing and Print’ \n‘Her hair was like golden sunlight.’  ‘The child was quiet as a mouse.’  ‘He was caught red-handed.’ \nHow many times have you been put off by a clichéd image\, simile\, or metaphor like these examples? Good poems make readers feel something rather than just impart information. This is not always easy as unlike other artforms\, in poetry\, language is the primary medium. How can we make the familiar seem fresh\, embodied\, and authentic? How can we use language in a way to have the maximum effect on the reader\, to make the reader feel something and think for themselves\, rather than just telling them what to think? Learn to make the readers visualise your poems. Let them feel your words\, not just hear them. \nIn this workshop we learn to create images that are authentic and unique to us\, with just our use of language. In this workshop\, we learn how to avoid reproducing clichés and create images that are strong\, memorable\, and authentic. \nThis is a free event\, but places are limited. Click here to book your ticket. \nBio: \n  \nGolnoosh Nourpanah is a published poet\, prose writer\, and lecturer. In 2019\, she earned a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Birkbeck\, University of London. Golnoosh has authored two poetry collections and a short story collection\, which was shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2021. She has taught creative writing at Birkbeck\, UEL\, the Poetry School\, the University of Bedfordshire\, the University of Reading and Westminster\, and she’s performed her poetry in literature festivals and events across the UK and internationally.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/poetry-workshop-at-reading-public-library-embodied-imagery-with-golnoosh-nourpanah/
LOCATION:Reading Central Library\, Abbey Square\, Reading\, Berkshire\, RG1 3BQ
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