Welcome to the team – Traci Kim!

We’re delighted to have Literally Speaking founder and all round force of nature Traci Kim coming aboard The Reader team as our new Program Manager. Traci will be organising our weekend workshops and special literary events. Learn more about Traci here, and keep an eye on our website and our social media pages to find … Read more

Advanced Fiction with Ben Fergusson

Led by award-winning novelist Ben Fergusson, this exclusive weekend seminar is designed
for writers who are ready to take their fiction to the next level. Covering both long- and short-
fiction, this session will focus on discussions, practical exercises and prompts to help you
hone your sentences, develop character and iron out the bumps in your writing.

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Eat Your Words: A Workshop of Food & Writing

Eat Me. Drink Me. and Counter Service present:

Eat Your Words: A Workshop of Food & Writing

Don’t be fooled into thinking this is a “food writing” workshop. It’s a writing workshop that
uses food as a tool and looks at it as a place of access and entry into writing about memory,
experience, shame, desire, nostalgia, etc. All the good stuff.

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Irenosen Okojie

IRENOSEN OKOJIE is a writer and Arts Project Manager and author of Speak Gigantular and Butterfly Fish, which won a Betty Trask award. Her work has been featured in The Observer, The Guardian, the BBC, and the Huffington Post. Hailed by Ben Okri as a dynamic writing talent to watch and featured in the Evening Standard Magazine, she is one of London’s … Read more

Rebecca Rukeyser

REBECCA RUKEYSER is the author of The Seaplane on Final Approach, her debut novel out June 2022 from Doubleday (USA) and Granta Books (UK). Her fiction has been awarded the inaugural Berlin Senate Endowment for Non-German Literature and anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading. She received an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Originally from Davis, California, Rebecca … Read more

Nick Makoha

NICK MAKOHA’s first full-length collection ‘Kingdom of Gravity’ was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for best first collection (Forward Prizes for Poetry) and he was the 2015 winner of the Brunel University African Poetry Prize. He toured the UK with his solo show My Father & Other Superheroes. His advice to young poets is … Read more

Mathilde Ramadier

MATHILDE RAMADIER

MATHILDE RAMADIERis from Southern France and now lives between Berlin and Arles. After a first degree as a graphic designer, she went on to study æsthetics and psychoanalysis at the University Paris VIII and obtained an MA in contemporary philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure. Since 2012, she works as a writer, scriptwriter, and translator … Read more

Rachael Allen

Rachael Allen

RACHAEL ALLEN’s first collection of poems, KINGDOMLAND, was published by Faber & Faber in 2019. Her collaboration with the painter Marie Jacotey, NIGHTS OF POOR SLEEP, was published as a co-authored artists’ book in 2017 by Test Centre. Rachael is poetry editor at GRANTA and co-founder of poetry press clinic and online journal TENDER. She is the recipient of a Northern Writers’ … Read more

Nikesh Shukla

NIKESH SHUKLA is the author of three novels. Most recently, he authored the critically acclaimed The One Who Wrote Destiny (2018). His debut novel, Coconut Unlimited, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2010. His second novel Meatspace was released to critical acclaim in 2014. Nikesh has written for The Guardian, Observer, Independent, Esquire, Buzzfeed, Vice, BBC2, LitHub, Guernica, and … Read more

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