Bestselling author and breast cancer survivor, Emma Davis, 41, from Exeter, is set to launch her first fiction book as part of an extraordinary collection of short stories, ‘Connections’- which brought together 23 writers from across the country during lockdown.
Spearheaded by award-winning book publisher, Fuzzy Flamingo, ‘Connections’ is a captivating short story compilation originally created to provide professional and amateur writers with an escape from the reality of lockdown life, using writing as a tool to get them through...
Tickets go on sale on Monday 28 July for the sixth annual Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival, taking place Thursday 18th – Sunday 21st September.
The festival, which attracts international interest, has grown year upon year and attracts some of the nation’s top authors.
The line-up for this year’s event includes best-selling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown who will discuss his new book, The Cruel Victory: the French Resistance and the Battle for the Vercors 1944.
Inventor, scientist and originator of the Gaia theory James Lovelock will also be at the...
Working in a local authority cemeteries department inspired Devon author Kate Vane’s new novel, Not the End.
Kate said, “The job made me think about our attitudes to death, particularly when someone died without friends and family and the local authority had to take charge of the funeral arrangements. Often they weren’t poor, or a loner, as people think. They had just outlived everyone who was close to them.”
Not the End is set in a fictitious Devon seaside town during a heatwave. It begins with the death of octogenarian sea swimmer Maud Smith, recently arrived from...
Do you have a writing ailment? Your story is going well but there’s something adrift and you’re not quite sure what. The beginning’s good but then it seems to peter out? Do you struggle with point of view?
In the supportive and encouraging atmosphere of a workshop novelist, Sophie Duffy and lecturer, Cathie Hartigan will offer efficacious advice after the reading and discussion either of the whole piece or relevant passages.
For more info and booking: www.creativewritingmatters.co.uk
