I will be performing 3 x live broadcasts as part of Talking Place online symposium on 02 September.

Book your free ticket here.

‘We are a group of women who are excited by place. It happens that we’re all writers, but this isn’t only about writing – we want to have conversations with all women who find inspiration from their environment, whether for acts of creativity, philosophical debate, or as a guide for day-to-day living. This relationship with place may bring with it a feeling of connection, but may also be problematic. It happens in countryside and city, and the places in between. We would like this forum to bring ideas and provocations, preoccupations and challenges, all rooted in the way women talk about place.

Miranda Ward says that ‘(how) we write about place…is ripe with meaning and power, and that power works as a force both for understanding place and for creating it.’ The act of writing pins a moment, a mood, an attitude, onto the page, and has an effect, in consequence, on how the reader will view the place triggering the description. There are questions here to be asked about responsibility, about bringing a balanced perspective. We need as many voices as possible sharing their experience of place.’