The highly popular Writers in Conversation series returns to the University with Costa Book of the Year winner Helen Macdonald headlining the autumn programme.
The author of the bestselling H is for Hawk comes to the main stage of 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’s death, won both the Costa award and The Samuel Johnson Prize in 2014.
Opening the programme on Monday, 3 October, is novelist and Southampton lecturer Rebecca Smith who will read from and discuss her new book, The Jane Austen’s Writers’ Club in Nuffield’s 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’s best fiction writers, poets, non-fiction writers and playwrights reading from their work and talking about their writing lifestyle. The talks are hosted by Carole Burns, Associate Professor and Head of Creative Writing at the University and former journalist who still writes for The Washington Post.
“I 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 £5.00 each with tickets for Helen Macdonald priced at £12.00 each. Tickets and other details are available on +44(0)23 8067 1771 or online at nuffieldtheatre.co.uk.
