CNW Spring 2015 events

SPRING 2015

Jeanette Winterson in conversation with Patrick Marber In a special event to mark the launch of the Centre for Writing’s new MA programme in Screenwriting, Jeanette Winterson will be in conversation with Oscar and BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Patrick Marber. The discussion will use clips from Marber’s film work to focus on cross-over writing, writing for female characters, differences between stage and screen work, writing short films, the commercial demands of the big screen, success and writer’s block, depression and creativity.

Jeanette Winterson

Venue Cornerhouse Time & Date 4pm, Sunday 1 March 2015 Price £12 / £10 (Book via Cornerhouse)

The new MA in Screenwriting programme will be designed by Jeanette Winterson and BAFTA award winning film producer Tanya Seghatchian, and will be supported by an advisory board including Russell T Davies, Abi Morgan, Andrew Eaton and Tony Garnett. It is currently accepting applications for September 2015 entry.

Jeanette Winterson is an award winning writer whose credits include the Prix d’argent from Cannes for Best TV screenplay Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and a BAFTA for Best Drama. She is currently adapting her novella The Daylight Gate for Hammer Horror. Her memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is an international bestseller. Her work is published around the world in 20 languages.

Patrick Marber is one of a cross-over generation of writers such as Lee Hall who move between writing for stage and film. He started out as an actor and stand-up comic working for TV and radio. His first play, Dealer’s Choice, set round a game of poker, won the London Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy in 1995. In 1997 his play Closer became a national and international hit, winning the Lawrence Olivier Award for Best New Play and going on to be staged in 30 languages.

Marber’s big screen transition happened in 2004 when he adapted Closer into a film starring Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Jude Law and Clive Owen. He was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for his screenplay. Closer was also nominated for Best Motion Picture. The movie grossed over $100 million.

In 2006 Marber’s adaptation of Zoe Heller’s novel, Notes on a Scandal, was nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Other screenplays include Asylum – adapted by Marber from his own novel and starring Ian McKellen and Natasha Richardson, and the soon to be released Fifty Shades of Grey.

Tickets are available from www.cornerhouse.org

Jeanette Winterson

in conversation with Patrick Marber 4pm, Sunday 1 March 2015 Centre for New Writing School of Arts, Languages and Cultures The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Telephone: 0161 275 8951 Email: boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk Online tickets: www.quaytickets.com centrefornewwriting @newwritingMCR www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/cnw DW2028.01.15 The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL Royal Charter Number RC000797

Centre for New Writing: Events These unique literature events, organised by the University’s Centre for New Writing, bring the best known contemporary writers to Manchester to discuss and read from their work. Everyone is welcome, and tickets include discounts at the Blackwell bookstall and a complimentary drink at our Literature Live wine receptions.

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LITERATURE LIVE: Denise Riley and Frances Leviston Denise Riley is an acclaimed English poet and philosopher who began to be published in the 1970s. Her collections of poetry include Marxism for Infants, Dry Air, Penguin Modern Poets 10, with Douglas Oliver and Ian Sinclair (1996) and Denise Riley: Selected Poems. Her poem ‘A Part Song’ won the 2012 Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem, a prize for which she was again shortlisted in 2014.

Venue John Thaw Studio Theatre Time & Date 6.30pm, Monday 16 February 2015 Price £6 / £4 Denise Riley

Her critical work includes War in the Nursery; Theories of the Child and Mother (1983); ‘Am I that Name?’ Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’ in History (1988) and Time Lived, Without Its Flow (2012).

Frances Leviston grew up in Edinburgh and Sheffield, and read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2006. Public Dream, her first collection, was published in 2007 by Picador and shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Denise Riley (UEA): On the Lapidary Style ‘The lapidary style’ suggests a manner of writing which runs close to working a material – carving lettering into rock, cutting a gem into fine facets. Poised between the properties of the stone and of the jewel, this term echoes the tensions of the poem itself. This talk will range over the curious nature of ‘style’, the virtues of concision and incisiveness, the ‘materiality’ of language, and epigraphy in a digital age. The ‘lapidary’ shows us the profound implication of a ‘style’ with semantic meaning.

Also of interest:

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On the Affect of Language (with Denise Riley) Readings: Riley, Denise, Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005) Chapters: ‘Introduction’, ‘Malediction’ and ‘The Right to be Lonely’

Susan Stewart is a poet, critic, and translator. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she has received a MacArthur “Genius” Award for work which makes “strange and disorienting that which we usually take to be familiar and of common sense.”

Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker and Poetry, and her most recent books of poetry are Red Rover (2008) and Columbarium, which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her translation, Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini, appeared in 2009.

Venue John Thaw Studio Theatre Time & Date 6.30pm, Monday 16 March 2015 Price £6 / £4 Susan Stewart

Frances Leviston

Rebecca Perry

Also of interest:

CIDRAL Roundtable: Susan Stewart (Princeton): Poetry, Thinking, and the Senses With John McAuliffe (Centre for New Writing), Anke Bernau (English) and Stephen Parker (German Studies).

Venue Kanaris Lecture Theatre, Manchester Museum

Price FREE Venue University Place 2.219 Time & Date 10am, Wednesday 18 February 2015 Price FREE

Venue Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building, The University of Manchester Time & Date 5pm, Tuesday 17 March 2015 Price FREE

Time & Date 5pm, Tuesday 17 February 2015

Pavilion Poetry Book Launch

Launching in April 2015, the series will debut with three books from a trio of poets from the UK: Small Hands by Mona Arshi, And She Was by Sarah Corbett and Blood Child by Eleanor Rees.

Eleanor Rees is the author of Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007) which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards, Eliza and the Bear (Salt, 2009) and Blood Child (Pavilion, 2015). Eleanor has worked extensively as a poet in the community and holds a practicebased PhD in the work of the local poet. She often collaborates with musicians, artists, performers and works to commission. She lives in Liverpool.

Time & Date 6.30pm, Monday 20 April 2015

Mona Arshi

Eleanor Rees

Sarah Corbett’s fourth book of poetry is a verse- novel, And She Was, which was written as part of a PhD in Creative Writing at The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing, under the supervision of John McAuliffe.

She has published three previous collections with Seren books: Other Beasts (2008), The Witch Bag (2002) and The Red Wardrobe (1998), which won an Eric Gregory Award and was shortlisted for both The Forward First Collection Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Sarah’s poetry has been widely anthologised and translated, and she collaborates regularly with other artists, filmmakers and writers.

Booking for all Literature events: Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.quaytickets.com or by calling the box office on 0161 275 8951 or e-mailing boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk Join our mailing list by emailing info-cnw@manchester.ac.uk

Venue International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Liverpool University Press is launching a new series of poetry books that celebrate risk-taking, called Pavilion Poetry. Pavilion Poetry, which will be edited by poetry professor Deryn ReesJones, aims to seek out and publish all that is daring and relevant in contemporary poetry.

Mona Arshi was born to Punjabi Sikh parents in West London where she still lives. She initially trained as a lawyer and worked for Liberty, the UK human rights organization. Mona was joint winner of the Manchester Creative Writing Poetry Prize in 2014.

Rebecca Perry is a graduate of the Centre for New Writing. Her work has appeared, most recently in B O D Y, Poetry Wales and Poetry London. Rebecca co-edits the online journal Poems In Which. Her pamphlet, little armoured (Seren), was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and her first book-length collection, Beauty/Beauty (Bloodaxe), launched tonight, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for spring 2015.

Her second collection, Disinformation, is published by Picador in February 2015. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, The Times, the TLS, Edinburgh Review, Granta/British Council New Writing, and various anthologies.

A former writer fellow of the Centre for New Writing, she works as a freelance writer and writing tutor and lives in Durham.

Also of interest:

LITERATURE LIVE: Susan Stewart and Rebecca Perry

The Manchester Review is the Centre for New Writing’s online journal, showcasing new work by both worldleading and emerging writers and artists. The Review’s agenda-setting reviews section is regularly updated with views on the latest books, films, exhibitions, theatre and music. www.themanchesterreview.co.uk

Sarah Corbett

Price FREE