Writers Rendezvous... In Conversation With Blake Morrison
Tues, 31 May, 2011, 7pm
Fee: £6
Organised by Spread The Word
For more information and to book click on spreadtheword link here or phone 020 7735 3111.
Poet,
playwright, journalist, novelist, biographer, librettist…Blake Morrison has
numerous strings to his bow (just like Spread the Word!) We support all form -
so do you have to settle for only
one? Readers and critics like to pin writers down…but why should
you be?
Spread the Word will be in conversation with Professor Blake Morrison about his writing and career. We will also be discussing the concept of learning to write and asking the dangerous question can it actually be taught? There will be a chance for you to ask burning questions too so come along to Rendezvous, meet other writers over a glass of wine.
BOOK ONLINE USING THIS LINK: http://www.spreadtheword.org.uk/index.php?id=events&event=956
About Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison was born in Skipton, Yorkshire, and educated at Nottingham University, McMaster University and University College, London. After working for the Times Literary Supplement, he went on to become literary editor of both The Observer and the Independent on Sunday before becoming a full-time writer in 1995. Prizes and awards include: Eric Gregory Award (1980), Dylan Thomas Award (1985) and J. R. Ackerley Prize (1994).
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and former Chair of the Poetry Book Society and Vice-Chair of PEN, Blake has written fiction, poetry, journalism, literary criticism and libretti, as well as adapting plays for the stage. His best-known works are probably his two memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me. Blake Morrison's latest novel, The Last Weekend, was published by Chattto & Windus in 2010 the paperback comes out this May.
Since 2003, Blake has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. He lives in south London, with his wife and three children.
Spread the Word will be in conversation with Professor Blake Morrison about his writing and career. We will also be discussing the concept of learning to write and asking the dangerous question can it actually be taught? There will be a chance for you to ask burning questions too so come along to Rendezvous, meet other writers over a glass of wine.
BOOK ONLINE USING THIS LINK: http://www.spreadtheword.org.uk/index.php?id=events&event=956
About Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison was born in Skipton, Yorkshire, and educated at Nottingham University, McMaster University and University College, London. After working for the Times Literary Supplement, he went on to become literary editor of both The Observer and the Independent on Sunday before becoming a full-time writer in 1995. Prizes and awards include: Eric Gregory Award (1980), Dylan Thomas Award (1985) and J. R. Ackerley Prize (1994).
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and former Chair of the Poetry Book Society and Vice-Chair of PEN, Blake has written fiction, poetry, journalism, literary criticism and libretti, as well as adapting plays for the stage. His best-known works are probably his two memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me. Blake Morrison's latest novel, The Last Weekend, was published by Chattto & Windus in 2010 the paperback comes out this May.
Since 2003, Blake has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. He lives in south London, with his wife and three children.