Event overview
Why is nature writing one of the key genres of our time? Can it help or even heal us? And what do women writers bring to the genre that men can’t?
Miriam Darlington was born in Lewes, Sussex, and now lives in Totnes. She has a degree in Modern Languages, a PhD in Nature Writing, a certificate in Field Ecology and is a Nature Notebook columnist at The Times. Her first book, Otter Country, was published in 2012. Owl Sense (2018) was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature and Travel Writing. She currently teaches Creative Writing at Plymouth University and spends the rest of her time researching and writing about wildlife.
Katharine Norbury trained as a film editor with the BBC and has worked extensively in film and television drama. She was the Observer's rising star in non-fiction, 2015. The Fish Ladder, her first book, was shortlisted for the 2016 Wainwright Prize, and long listed for the Guardian First Book Award and Telegraph Book of the Year. She is currently compiling an anthology of women’s writing about the natural world, Women On Nature, for Unbound, to be published in 2019. https://unbound.com/books/women-on-nature/
This event will be followed by readings by the shortlisted writers for this year’s Goldsmiths Prize for Fiction - 6.45pm, Ian Gulland Theatre, Whitehead Building.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 31 Oct 2018 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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