Surrey New Writers Festival 15 & 16 March 2013

Tuesday 5 February 2013

The inaugural Festival will take place on Friday March 15th and Saturday March 16th.  Events will be held in various locations on the University of Surrey campus and in the town of Guildford. Some of the 2013 programme highlights include: artists who work with digital text and poetic performance; songwriters-in-residence; a Festival Book club; panel discussions and talks featuring publishers, writers, editors and agents; a Twitter flash mob; two exciting launch parties.

Friday’s events take place on the University of Surrey campus and include A Workshop/discussion with Chris Stevens, CEO of Atomic Antelope and designer of Alice for the iPad, a Performance and Q&A with Garrett Turner, spoken word artist and Marshall Scholar, and the Festival Launch Party, featuring readings by Surrey’s Creative Writing faculty and a performance by Festival Songwriters-in-Residence, the Unicorn Lazers.

Saturday’s events take place at Abbot’s Hospital, Guildford, and include a full day of discussion panels on poetry, publishing, humour writing, and editing; the opportunity to have lunch with author Liam Bell, and discuss his latest novel, So It Is and Agent’s Corner: Discussion and Q&A with Samantha Haywood, literary agent with and partner in the Transatlantic Literary Agency.  

The Festival moves to 3 Pigeons Pub in the late afternoon for the Industry Insider’s Mixer and The Veer Books Spring titles launch.

All events are open to the public and full details can be found on here.