Writers Unchained and in the wild

A round-up of our summer adventures – and it’s only July!

Heather Child: ‘Uplit’ at Edgelit

As well as an appearance at the Dark Societies dystopian book club in London, Heather was in Derby last week running a workshop and speaking on a panel at the popular sci-fi, fantasy and horror event EdgeLit 2018.

 

The recent boom in dystopian fiction was the topic of discuss

ion, though with political decisions made in the last couple of years starting to bed in, it seems the incoming trend is ‘uplit’, or more uplifting fiction. All events were well-attended and people enjoyed meeting their favourite genre authors and getting books signed.

Heather is also at this week’s lunch-time lecture at Bristol City Library on Thursday July 26th at 12.30 in the old library foyer. It’s free, so get there if you can!

Jean Burnett in the Dragons Den

Jean  pitched her unpublished novel to the Chudleigh Dragons at the Chudleigh LitFest last weekend in Devon – and won the prize!

Her cosy crime novel wins a critique from novelist Sophie Duffy from Legend Press.

Jean is also working n a new historical novel and looking forward to a writing retreat in Greece.

 

 

Ali Bacon around and about

Having survived a book-selling trip to France, Ali set out for Suffolk where she was part of the Wickhambrook literary lunch in late June.

As well as talking about In the Blink of an Eye she had lunch with afternoon speakers Nicci Gerard and Sean French and has been name-dropping ever since.

She is now emerging from a stint on the golf course to do a book signing at Books on the Hill in Clevedon this Saturday 21st and dropping in to the Flash Fiction Festival on Sunday in Bristol.

 

 

Scottish readers should also check out her website for news of Scottish shenanigans in September and October.

And yes, our next Story Sunday will be in the early autumn, so please watch this space and keep writing!