Event overview
Goldsmiths Writers' Centre - Memoir Versus Fiction with Norma Clarke and Alice Jolly
What’s the difference, if any, between writing fiction and writing memoir? What choices do writers make, and how do readers perceive those choices? Alice Jolly and Norma Clarke work in both forms; they’ll discuss their decisions and methods.
Norma Clarke is Professor of English Literature at Kingston University.
She is the author of Ambitious Heights, The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters and Dr Johnson’s Women (described by Kathryn Hughes as ‘the best kind of popular history being produced at the moment’). She has also published several novels for children. Not Speaking – a memoir published earlier this year - tells the story of a Greek matriarch, Rena, and her children in post-war London and the present.
Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. In 2014 she won the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for a short story, and in 2016 her memoir Dead Babies and Seaside Towns won the PEN Ackerley Prize. Her last novel, Mary Anne Sate, Imbecile, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize; her latest, Between the Regions of Kindness, came out earlier this year. She teaches creative writing at Oxford University.
Free admission – to attend please email english@gold.ac.uk
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 16 Oct 2019 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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