Our readers on the night are:
Deborah Arnander
Deborah was
born in Northumberland but spent her childhood in Thailand. She has a PhD in French literature, and works
as a literary translator. She won an
Arts Council Escalator award in 2010, when she began her first novel, The Cinderella Watch, which was
shortlisted in 2014’s TLC Pen Factor competition. She has published stories in Unthology One and Words and Women One, both with Unthank Books, and has poetry in the
webzine Ink, Sweat and Tears, and in
various anthologies published by Gatehouse Press.
Victoria lives
in Norwich, works in publishing and has a six year-old daughter. She began
writing in 2013 and has had stories published in Unthology 6 by Unthank Books (Norwich) and Before Passing by Great Weather for MEDIA (New York). In addition
to writing short stories, she is currently working on her first novel, The Lantern Man.
Antoinette Moses
Prior to becoming a
full-time writer, Antoinette had a long career in arts administration and
journalism. She re-founded and directed the Cambridge Animation Festival,
worked for the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, and edited Direct, the journal of the Directors
Guild of Great Britain. She has written a number of plays which have been
produced in Norwich and Cambridge, and also published over twenty books of
language-learner literature, three of which won the Extensive Reading Award.
She lives in Norwich and teaches creative writing at UEA where she also
produces FLY, the Festival of Literature for Young people.
Sarah Ridgard
Sarah is a graduate of the University
of East Anglia with an MA in Creative Writing. She won a place on the Escalator
Literature programme run by the Writers Centre Norwich in 2009, and three years
later went on to publish her debut novel, Seldom Seen, with Random House. The novel was
longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2013 for new fiction, the New
Angle Prize for Literature and shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best
First Novel Award. Sarah is currently working on
her second novel.
The event is free! It’s on
Thursday 21st April upstairs at the Library Restaurant, 4a Guildhall
Hill, Norwich, NR2 1JH. It starts at
7.30pm. We hope to see you there!
