Our garden festival – Art, Gardens And Words – is just
a week away and now we have our programme finalized we have put it on our
dedicated garden page for your information, so you can see who is appearing
when.
Melinda and Lois will read their writings about nature
early in the afternoon.
Melinda is an East Anglian writer who is fascinated by
connections between historic uses of land, its nature and culture and our
relationship with it. Throughout her career as an adviser in agriculture and
environment, she worked to create richer landscapes. After winning Country
Living's Best Writer Award in 2011, Melinda decided to focus on her
creative writing, enrolling on the Wild Writing MA course at Essex University.
Having written factual environmental articles for
magazines and journals, she now writes occasional 'wild notes'
for the Wildeasters website, provides creative landscape copy for the
Waveney and Blyth Arts forum and has had poems published in a fenland anthology
and Earthlines. She specialises in nature writing that explores connections to
place and time.
Lois grew up along the Wash coast and travelled
widely, teaching English in university and community writing programmes in the
US. Her poems and essays have appeared in many venues, including Verse Daily,
New England Review, Antiphon, and Granta. She is busy completing a book of
stories, The Invention of Home, from which “The House of
Provisions” was awarded a notable essay listing in Best American Essays 2009.
She lives in Norfolk, working as a freelance writer and visual artist, and
volunteering with ecology and habitat restoration projects.
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