The highly popular Writers in Conversation series returns to the University on Monday 7 November with novelist, critic and journalist Philip Hensher.
Philip won the Somerset Maugham Award for his novel Kitchen Venom in 1996 and his semi-autobiographical work The Northern Clemency was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Last year, he edited both volumes of The Penguin Book of the British Short Story, parts 1 and 2.
The series then welcomes Costa Book of the Year winner Helen Macdonald to the Nuffield’s main stage on Monday 5 December. Helen is a writer, poet, illustrator, historian, naturalist and author of the bestselling H is for Hawk which won the Costa award and The Samuel Johnson Prize in 2014. The book is a touching memoir of the year Helen spent training a goshawk named Mabel in the wake of her father’s death.
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.
All of the Writers in Conversation events in the autumn series start at 19:30. Tickets for Philip Hensher are £5.00 and free for all University staff (book over the phone or in person at the Box Office, staff ID required).
Tickets for Helen Macdonald are priced at £12.00 each. Further details are available on Tel: +44(0)238 0671 771 or online at nuffieldtheatre.co.uk.
Available on a first come first served basis, there are a limited number of complimentary tickets for this event available to University of Southampton students. Please call the box office to check availability (student ID required).
