Greenacre Writers organised a #diverseauthorday in September on Twitter. A group of writers and readers got together and began tweeting about diversity, mainly authors and books. #diverseauthorday began trending on Twitter and this continued throughout the day. According to the stats, there were over 5,000 tweets that reached over 3,000,000 million people throughout the world.
Click here, to read more about the reflections from the authors involved.
Finchley Literary Festival 2016
Finchley Literary Festival 2016 will adopt a very different format. Rather than narrowing it to a few days we will be holding a number of varied literary events in and around Finchley over the course of the summery months.
We will get this off to a great start in April with a talk from
Rosie Canning ‘Orphans in Literature’ relating to her PhD research. A literary walk will hopefully make the best of the weather on Sunday May 1st. We also expect to be hosting another Poetry and Music Palooza, writing workshops, as well as author events.
Keep an eye on the
blog and
Facebook pages. We will also be emailing you about each event so you don’t miss anything.
A Conversation with...
Among the many conversations published on the Greenacre Writers website, we have
Sunny Singh who likes to rewrite stories in her head, reworking the characters and storylines in ways that she prefers.
Lucy Cruickshanks whose novel began life after she sat beside a man on a flight who made his fortune selling women.
Katarina Bivald who still hasn't decided whether she prefers books or people.
Catriona Ward who writes about uncanny events in her childhood, at a cottage on Dartmoor.
Nikesh Shukla who defies the stereotypes of what is expected of authors from the South Asian Diaspora.
Vaseem Khan, who'd like to write a novel in the High Arctic.
Kathy Rentzenbrink who talks about her emotional writing journey. And
Simon Mawer who wishes he'd written
Lolita.
Book Club
Greenacre Writers has a
monthly book club. We read and discuss the book online or at the next writers group. The December book is
A Brief History of Seven Killings by
Man Booker winner Marlon James. If you want to join in with the GW online book club either comment via Twitter @greenacrewriter or email: greenacrewriters@gmail.com
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