Fire Ready and He Used to Do Dangerous Things: Joint Manchester Launch
Price: 4.00
Blackwell's Manchester, University Green, 146 Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9GP
About the event
Join us at the Manchester launch of two new collections, each dealing with eco narratives, activism and personal struggles. During this launch event, you'll hear from Gaia Holmes and Jane Rogers on their work. The event will be hosted by Comma Press' Ra Page.
About the Authors
Gaia Holmes is an award-winning freelance writer and creative writing tutor who works with schools, universities, libraries and other community groups throughout the West Yorkshire region. She runs ‘Igniting The Spark’, a weekly writing workshop at Dean Clough, Halifax, and is the co-host of ‘MUSE-LI’, an online writing group. She has had three full length poetry collections published by Comma Press: Dr James Graham’s Celestial Bed (2006) Lifting the Piano with One Hand (2013), Where The Road Runs Out (2018), along with Tales from the Tachograph, a collaborative work with Winston Plowes (Calder Valley Poetry, 2017). In February 2023, she was awarded the Arts Foundation Futures Award for Place Writing.
Jane Rogers, FRSL, has written 10 novels, radio drama and stories. The Testament of Jessie Lamb won the Arthur C Clarke Award, was Man-Booker longlisted, and translated into seven languages. Jane’s first collection of stories, Hitting Trees with Sticks, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Award, and the title story was a BBC National short story competition finalist. Earlier novels won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Writers Guild Best Fiction Book Award, and she has twice been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her TV dramatization of her award-winning novel Mr Wroe’s Virgins was BAFTA nominated for best drama serial. Jane continues to teach writing at all levels, and is Emerita Professor of Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. She currently runs workshops for Mslexia and Faber Academy, and mentors for Gold Dust.
