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ENFIELD LITERARY FESTIVAL PRESENTS:
OPENING BOOKS 22 - 30 JUNE 2018
Welcome to Enfield’s first Literary Festival. Are you passionate reader and writer? This could be just the ticket. We are delighted to announce Enfield’s first ever literary festival from 22- 30th June, featuring author Patrice Lawrence talking about how Enfield inspired her award winning novel, ‘Orangeboy,’ Catherine Johnson reads from her novel ‘Sawbones.’ Plus acclaimed children’s writer Alan Gibbons talks about his new thriller called Trap. Kurt Barling talks about writing and journalism. And Roger McGough recites some of his favourite poems, including readings from local poets Sonia Jeramas and Katherine Gallagher. Enfield Literary festival presents: ‘Opening books,’ celebrating Enfield’s rich and diverse heritage by offering access, contact and opportunities from authors of leading published young adult fiction, flash fiction, plus children’s writers and poets. After inspiration from the Lamb Festival in Edmonton, All Saints Parish Church (next festival also in June 2018) and a successful series of literary events in local schools and Edmonton Green library in January, this will act as the grand finale. The festival will be broadly themed on the idea of ‘change’, that could be a change of season, life and/or a specific experience. It will be filled with talks by key national artists, authors and poets, in addition to new and emerging talent. ‘A can do’ approach will define the festival, with workshops, talks, activities for any budding reader, writer, new and emerging artists. Research supports the health benefits of literature for both personal development, confidence and support with mental health and well being. From the beginner reader or writer, to the very experienced, this festival will offer a fresh insight into how literature can be something positive, fun, insightful, intelligent and offer up new worlds, ideas and relationships with characters that in turn can inform and educate your own experience of life. It could help to demystify the concept of what it is to be a writer. And offer access and opportunities to explore the relationship between the author and reader. The festival offers a practical and realistic approach to the craft of writing. So that it instills a greater sense that anyone can read and write. We hope you will enjoy the programme and look forward to seeing you at the Dugdale Centre.
Martin Russo Festival organiser ENFIELD LITERARY FESTIVAL Enfield Literary Festival
Friday 22nd June 2018
KATHERINE GALLAGHER
SONIA JERAMAS
How to get started in writing Poetry:
Poetry Night
• 5PM TO 6PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £5
Poet and tutor Katherine Gallagher, offers some practical steps in writing poetry. Katherine Gallagher is a widely-acclaimed poet with eight books published as well as four chapbooks. Born in Australia, Gallagher has lived and worked in London since 1979. She has been an active force in the community, giving poetry readings, running workshops (for adults and children), judging poetry competitions, and participating in poetry festivals. Her work has been widely reviewed, see Reviews. In addition, Gallagher has undertaken translations (from French) and her reviews of the work of other poets have been extensively published. Gallagher’s own poetry has been translated into French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Romanian, and Serbo-Croat.
Here is an extract from Katherine Gallagher recent publication, Acres of Light:
The Brief of Travelling I pitch my tent on the edge of the desert, watch the helter-skelter mirages: savour the journey’s spell. My trek is restless for found treasure, flaring birdsong, for rivers that unfold. It has blind trails like a bushwalker’s maze, the weather white-wearing hot. It has its terrors of forgetting, stark monuments and forbidden marsh. It has its long-sighted crafty Crusoe, its footloose wily Gulliver.
• 8PM TO 10PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £5
Sonia Jeramas was born in Luton to Ukrainian parents and now lives in Enfield. She works as a Learning Support Assistant at Capel Manor College as well as running her own part-time garden maintenance business. Her poetry has been published in South, The North, Stand, The Interpreter’s House and Envoi. Sonia’s novel was long-listed for Penguin Random House WriteNow 2016/2017 program. Sonia has a BA in English and History from Roehampton Institute and an MA in Literature. She is well known on the Enfield poetry scene attending and appearing at events both at the Enfield Poets and the Palmers Green Poets. Exploring the theme of change, join leading local Enfield, Palmers Green and Highgate poets for an eclectic mix of traditional, new and fresh poetic voices. Poets include: Katherine Gallagher, Sonia Jeramas, Michael Brett, Mario Petrucci, Tim Waller, Ros Kane, Joan Michelson, Mary Duggan, Jack Cooper, Jenny Mitchell, Milverton Wallace, Myra Schneider, Dennis Evans, Anna Meryt.
Enfield Schools Poetry Night • 6PM TO 8PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £8
Following creative poetry workshops in Enfield schools, this is an opportunity to celebrate some of the hard work in developing new poetry voices. Working alongside celebrated local poets on exploring themes around change and global citizens. Supported by Simon Mole and Francesca Beard. Enfield Literary Festival
Saturday 23rd June 2018
DR. KATY BEAVERS
ALLEN ASHLEY
A life in letters and essays:
Want To Write Flash Fiction?
• 2PM TO 3PM
• 2PM TO 3PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £5
Dr. Katy Beavers from the Lamb Society talks about the legacy of Charles and Mary’s Lambs London literary life. Charles Lamb once said of himself – as concise and perceptive a summary of his essential nature as anyone would ever produce. He was an eccentric, a misfit, and one of the finest essayists of the age ‘I want individuals. I am made up of queer points and I want so many answering needles,’. Charles Lamb was the youngest son of John Lamb and Elizabeth Field, born in 1775 at Crown Office Row, London, where his father was clerk to Samuel Salt, a Bencher (senior member of the Inns of Court) of the Inner Temple. He had an older brother, John (1763–1821), and a sister, Mary (1764–1847). He was educated at Christ’s Hospital in Newgate Street, where he was a contemporary of Coleridge, as recalled in his essay, Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago. (sourced from the Lamb Society).
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £5
If you found writing a novel too big a project, then why not start with smaller steps? Learn how to write from a new and emerging form called flash fiction. It might just be the answer. Acclaimed author, Allen Ashley offers a practical approach and guidance on the new form with you being able to create a draft on the day.
ALLEN ASHLEY
It’s never too late:
Getting Started Workshop for beginners • 4PM TO 5PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £5
Author and experience tutor, Allen Ashley, will run through the basics to help you get started on your writing career.
KATHERINE GALLAGHER
Writing on a theme of Change. • 3PM TO 3PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £5
Katherine will offer practical workshops writing on a theme of change. Interested? Katherine Gallagher, Writing poetry.
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MARY DUGGAN
Poetry Workshop • 12 NOON TO 1PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £5
Poetry comes in many shapes, forms and styles, Local poet, Mary Duggan explores the many creative ways that children can develop skills in creative thinking, confidence and writing. Join Mary for an enjoyable and fun activity for all children. Enfield Literary Festival
Saturday 23rd June 2018
CATHERINE JOHNSON
PATRICE LAWRENCE
Learn how history and literature collide?
Exploring family changes
• 5PM TO 6.30PM
• 7.30PM TO 9PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £15
Acclaimed and award winning national author, screenwriter for film and television, Catherine Johnson talks about how history helped inform her works Sawbones and The Curious Tale of The Lady Caraboo. Here she discusses her passion for research on history and explores how it has helped inform, inspire and develop her own writing. Catherine Johnson has written several books for children and young adults, including A Nest of Vipers (Corgi, 2008), The Story of Cato Hopkins, the youngest member of a group of expert fraudsters. Her next book, Sawbones, was published in October 2013 and won the Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction.The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo, published by Penguin Random House in 2015 was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2016 and the YA Book Prize. Her most recent novel Blade and Bone was published in 2016. Catherine also writes for film, television and radio. In 2005 she co-wrote the highly acclaimed feature film Bullet Boy, followed by a number of commissions for Century Films, Working Title and Channel 4. Her TV work includes Rough Crossings for Simon Schama and Holby City. Catherine was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of the Arts London, Writer in Residence at Holloway Prison and Reader in Residence at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the Children’s Literature Festival ‘Imagine’. She was awarded an Arts Council of England Writer’s Grant in 2004 and a Writer’s Bursary in 1996. Catherine was selected for the BBC Writer’s Academy in 2012.
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £15
Award winning national acclaimed young adult fiction author, Patrice Lawrence, talks about how changes in family life have impacted on her writing. Patrice Lawrence was born in Brighton, brought up in an Italian-Trinidadian family in mid-Sussex and lives in East London with her daughter, partner and Stormageddon, the tabby. Patrice’s debut YA novel, Orangeboy (Hodder), was greeted with a critical and prize-winning storm. Indigo Donut (Hodder), Patrice’s second novel, met with great reviews, and was Book of the Week in The Times, The Observer and The Sunday Times. Indigo lives with her foster mum, Keely. When she meets Bailey at sixth form, serious sparks fly, but Indigo has a secret that could ruin everything. When Bailey becomes the target of a homeless man who knows more about Indigo’s past than is normal, he is forced to make an impossible choice. • Orangeboy winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017 and The Bookseller YA Book Prize 2017 and s hortlisted for 2016 Costa Children’s Book Award. •“Fresh and important... Patrice Lawrence is a hot name in publishing.” THE TIMES • “Lawrence is a vibrant, accomplished storyteller... but what really sets her writing apart is her skill in getting to the raw heart of her characters.” THE OBSERVER Enfield Literary Festival
Sunday 24th June 2018
JOE STUDMAN
DR. KATY DAVIES | DR. FELICITY JAMES
Local Literary Guided Tour of Enfield
Retelling stories
Literary history guided tour of Enfield on foot with Jay Walk & Talk
Katy Beavers & Felicity James from the Lamb Society talk about how the re-interpretation of Shakespeare helped promote it to a new young audience.
• 11AM TO 12.30PM
| £5
DEPART FROM DUGDALE CENTRE
Joe Studman was born in Clerkenwell and spent his youth wandering the streets of the Capital. For the past 40 years he has lived in Enfield and has discovered the borough’s rich history. He now shares his knowledge and enthusiasm for both areas on his walks, talks and courses. As well as his public walks Joe leads groups for many local societies. His speaking engagements include Townswomen Guilds, Gardening Groups various retirement associations and local societies. He is a qualified City of London Guide and has guided for The National Trust and English Heritage. Joe believes that guiding is an entertainment and his tours will make you smile as well as inform and educate. Most importantly Joe Studman enjoys meeting people and he will make you feel important and welcome.
• 3PM TO 4PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £5
DR. KATY DAVIES | DR. FELICITY JAMES
Mary Lamb, Needlework & Feminism • 5PM TO 6PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £5
Pioneer, thinker and early feminist, just before suffragettes, Mary Lamb confronted some of the early issues around work for women, liberation and opportunities on her published essay on Needlework. This extract from Lamb Society’s website explains that: She only published one piece of prose for adults, the essay On Needle-work contributed to the British Lady’s Magazine and Monthly Miscellany (1 April 1815) under the pseudonym ‘Sempronia’. In this essay, as in Mrs Leicester’s School , she shows a particular concern for the well-being of disadvantaged women and girls. Her remonstrations on such issues as the lack of remunerative female employment, and the vulnerability of young women to social and parental pressures, show her attempting to spare others through her writing stresses she had herself experienced.
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Join Lamb society members Dr. Katy Davies and Dr. Felicity James for a talk about her legacy. Enfield Literary Festival
Friday 29th June 2018
ALLEN ASHLEY.
JOHN LUCAS
Science Fiction and Fantasy
‘Turf’ wars are never easy to escape.
Themed reading featuring Clockhouse London Writers. • 7PM TO 9PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE
£5
North London’s premier science fiction and fantasy writing group will take you to other worlds and realities. Prepare to be dazzled. Hosted by acclaimed editor, poet, flash fiction and science fiction writer Allen Ashley. Clockhouse London Writers was founded in 2012 by author, editor and writing tutor Allen Ashley. The name is taken from the famous/ infamous Clockhouse Junction of the A406 North Circular Road and the A105 Green Lanes. This junction is just around the corner from the regular monthly meeting place for the group. Clockhouse London Writers has the following aims: to improve ourselves as writers; to achieve more visible success as writers; to work cohesively as a group supporting each other’s endeavours. The main focus for our writing is: fiction within the genres of science fiction, fantasy, slipstream and horror. (The text was used from https:// clockhouselondonwriters.wordpress.com/)
• 7.30PM TO 9PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £8
Turf wars, knives, gangs fighting and complex challenges are explored in John Lucas’s debut novel. Maggie Butt interviews author John Lucas about his novel Turf wars. Jay’s life seems pretty sorted: 15 years old and already a rising member of the notorious Blake Street Boyz gang, he takes his lessons from the street. With a knife in his pocket and his best friend Milk by his side, their days are spent fiercely defending their turf. When Jay gets the chance to step up and become a senior of the Boyz, he faces the biggest decision of his life: he must stab and kill a classmate - and rival gang member - or face the consequences. It doesn’t take long for Jay’s world to spiral out of control. As the line between right and wrong begins to fade, he finds no escape. Jay has to act, but at what and whose cost? Set against the backdrop of London’s inner-city tower blocks, in a world where killing can be easier than choosing what chocolate bar to eat, Turf is a story of intense friendship and brutal gang violence, of loyalty at any cost - even to the price of your own soul. It’s the kind of story that continues to dominate front page headlines under street gang rule.
Enfield Schools Poetry Night
( Partnership Coordinator, Enfield Town Schools’ Partnership)
• 6PM TO 8PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £8
After a series of creative poetry workshops across many schools in Enfield, this is a special opportunity to celebrate and enjoy some of the hard work in developing new poetry voices, working alongside celebrated local poets, working on developing a theme around change and global citizens. Supported by Paul Lyalls, Cheryl Moskowitz and Rachel Piercey. Enfield Literary Festival
Saturday 30th June 2018
DEE SHULMAN Author and illustrator
MAGGIE BUTT
Ally Pally Prison Camp. How pictures and words • 11AM TO 12 NOON
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £5
A hundred years ago, 300 civilian men were being held prisoner at Alexandra Palace. They were ‘enemy aliens,’ imprisoned for the four years of the First World War. This presentation tells their story: in paintings, photographs, poems, extracts from memoirs and letters.
make a story. A talk and workshop
• 12 NOON TO 1PM | DUGDALE CENTRE | £5 An author and illustrator of over 50 books, including the immensely popular Polly Price series and the epic new YA/teen Parallon Trilogy; Fever (Book 1) Delirium (Book 2) and Afterlife (Book 3). Dee Shulman writes in a studio overlooking a school quadrangle that bears a striking resemblance to the one at St Magdalene’s, though she swears she hasn’t actually seen Eva or Seth crossing it - yet. Dee has a degree in English from York University and went on to study Illustration at Harrow School of Art. She has written and /or illustrated about 50 books, including the popular, highly original My Totally Secret Diary series. She has been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Welsh, Dutch, and Finnish - though she has no idea how accurately!
LINDA CAREY
Have you a secret creative pulse? • 12 NOON TO 1PM
| DUGDALE | £5
Education officer, Linda Carey from Keats House will run a creative writing workshop for children, explaining how inspiration for poets like Keats can be found it surprising places.
She began writing for children when her own children were small, and despite a diet of sherbet fountains and gummy bears they have insisted on growing up. So her characters have had to grow up with them. Her books have frequently been highly recommended in the press and on radio and she’s been shortlisted for numerous awards. Fever is her first book for teenagers, which is surprising considering she lives on a campus with about 760 of them. http://www.deeshulman.com/
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Saturday 30th June 2018
ALEX WOOLF
MARTIN RUSSO
Want to write children Can community and young adult fiction? journalism help fill the • gaps in local news? 2PM TO 3.30PM | DUGDALE CENTRE | £5
Local author Alex Woolf, leads a workshop on creative writing and talks about how his passion for history and science has helped shape his fiction. Alex Woolf is a published author of over eighty books, mainly for children and young adults. In his non-fiction he has written on subjects as diverse as sharks, robots, asteroids and chocolate, but his passions are history and science. His fiction includes Chronosphere, a time-warping science fiction trilogy, and Aldo Moon and the Case of the Ghost at Gravewood Hall, about a teenage Victorian ghost-hunter, one of Lovereading4kids’ books of the year in 2013, and described by bestselling crime writer Peter James as ‘a real delight, witty, ghostly and at times deliciously ghastly.’ His novel Soul Shadows, about shadows that come to life, was shortlisted for the 2014 RED Book Award. He is also a regular author for Fiction Express, online publishers of interactive stories for schools, for whom he writes the popular Time Detectives stories. His most recent novel is a steampunk adventure called Iron Sky. https://alexwoolf.co.uk
• 2PM TO 3PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £5
A practical workshop on developing community journalism for Enfield, with an activity on developing news stories. Plus a discussion on how community journalism could help fill the gaps in local news stories.
KURT BARLING
What about The ‘R’ Word? • 3PM TO 4PM | DUGDALE CENTRE
| £5
Acclaimed academic, journalist and author, Kurt Barling will be talking about journalism and his book, The ‘R’ Word that explores his experience of racism in Britain today.
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Saturday 30th June 2018
LINDA CAREY
What’s the link to Keats and Enfield? • 4PM TO 5PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £5
Linda Carey offers an exploration of life for Keats in Enfield and discusses how it could have informed inspiration for his work. This is an extract from poetry foundation. John Keats, who died at the age of twenty-five, had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes and a few magazines. But at each point in his development he took on the challenges of a wide range of poetic forms from the sonnet, to the Spenserian romance, to the Miltonic epic, defining anew their possibilities with his own distinctive fusion of earnest energy, control of conflicting perspectives and forces, poetic selfconsciousness, and, occasionally, dry ironic wit. In the case of the English ode he brought its form, in the five great odes of 1819, to its most perfect definition. In his own lifetime John Keats would not have been associated with other major Romantic poets, and he himself was often uneasy among them. Outside his friend Leigh Hunt ‘s circle of liberal intellectuals, the generally conservative reviewers of the day
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attacked his work, with malicious zeal, as mawkish and bad-mannered, as the work of an upstart “vulgar Cockney poetaster” (John Gibson Lockhart), and as consisting of “the most incongruous ideas in the most uncouth language” (John Wilson Croker). Although Keats had a liberal education in the boy’s academy at Enfield and trained at Guy’s Hospital to become a surgeon, he had no formal literary education. Yet Keats today is seen as one of the canniest readers, interpreters, questioners, of the “modern” poetic project-which he saw as beginning with William Wordsworth —to create poetry in a world devoid of mythic grandeur, poetry that sought its wonder in the desires and sufferings of the human heart. Beyond his precise sense of the difficulties presented him in his own literary-historical moment, he developed with unparalleled rapidity, in a relative handful of extraordinary poems, a rich, powerful, and exactly controlled poetic style that ranks Keats, with the William Shakespeare of the sonnets, as one of the greatest lyric poets in English.
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Saturday 30th June 2018
ALAN GIBBON
ROGER MCGOUGH & LiTTLe MACHiNe
Are you in a ‘Trap?’
Roger McGough & LiTTLe MACHiNe
• 1PM TO 2.30PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £5
Award winning national children’s author Alan Gibbon talks about his new book The Trap and explore how ‘change’ impacts on his characters from the book.’ Terrorism, heroism and everything in between... The Trap is a teen thriller about espionage, a missing brother and the ever-raging war on terror by million-copy-selling author, Alan Gibbons. MI5 agent, Kate, receives a tip-off about an asset, who seems too good to be true. Amir and Nasima are trying to make friends at their new school but struggling to keep a terrible secret. A group of jihadists are planning something. And behind it all stands Majid. Brother. Son. Hero. Terrorist.
• 7.30PM TO 10PM
| DUGDALE CENTRE | £21.50
2017 encompassed more McGough milestones than the average year. There’s the 50th anniversary of that iconic, well-thumbed and top-selling Penguin Modern Poets’ no.10 - The Mersey Sound by Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten. Then the summer of ’67 epic poem of love & lust, broken promises and unfettered dreams, Summer With Monika, being republished later in the year and newly illustrated by the illustrious Chris Riddell. Plus a host of country-wide dates with The Bootleg Beatles and the RLPO in It Was Fifty Years Ago Today which sold out the Royal Albert Hall in hours.
Spanning Iraq, Syria and England, the Trap grapples with one of the greatest challenges of our time (sourced content and words from Hachette Children’s Group website). Alan Gibbons is a full-time writer and a visiting speaker and lecturer at schools, colleges and literary events nationwide, including the major book festivals: Edinburgh, Northern Children’s Book Festival, Swansea, Cheltenham, Sheffield and Salford. Alan is a key supporter of a highprofile, nationwide campaign to champion libraries and librarianship and to reevaluate government commitment to educational spending.
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