The highly popular Writers in Conversation series returns to the University with winner headlining the autumn programme.
The author of the bestselling H is for Hawk comes to the main stage of 听Nuffield Theatre on Monday, 5 December. The book, a touching memoir of the year Helen spent training a goshawk named Mabel in the wake of her father鈥檚 death, won both the Costa award and听 in 2014.
Opening the programme on Monday, 3 October, is novelist and Southampton lecturer who will read from and discuss her new book, in Nuffield鈥檚 Studio Theatre. Rebecca, a five-times great niece of Austen and lecturer in Creative Writing at Southampton, will talk about how she gains inspiration from one of the most beloved writers in English literary canon.
Also appearing in the Studio Theatre and rounding out the autumn schedule is novelist, critic and journalist Philip Hensher on 7 November.
Writers in Conversation features some of today鈥檚 best fiction writers, poets, non-fiction writers and playwrights reading from their work and talking about their writing lifestyle. The talks are hosted by , Associate Professor and Head of Creative Writing at the University and former journalist who still writes for The Washington Post.
鈥淚 hope this series gives people a chance to deepen that interest, by hearing writers read their own work, and asking them questions about their art,” said Carole.
All three Writers in Conversation events in the autumn series start at 19:30. Tickets for Rebecca Smith and Philip Hensher are 拢5.00 each with tickets for Helen Macdonald priced at 拢12.00 each. Tickets and other details are available on +44(0)23 8067 1771 or online at .
