The Sherborne Sessions all about good writing
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Thursday 16th October TIME - 17:00 EVENT - Others’ Stories SPEAKERS - Louise Carpenter, Rachel Cooke and Tamasin Day-Lewis AUDIENCE - A level English students and all students
Tamasin Day-Lewis writes
Louise Carpenter is the
Rachel Cooke is an award-
regularly for Vogue, Saveur,
author of An Unlikely
winning journalist, writes
Stella, Sainsbury’s Magazine,
Countess: Lily Budge and
for The Observer, and is
the Daily Mail and Waitrose
the 13th Earl of Galloway,
the television critic of the
Kitchen.
and Ida and Louise.
New Statesman.
Successful cookbooks
Writes for The Times
include Supper for a Song
Magazine, The Daily
(2009).
Telegraph Magazine and The Observer.
Thursday 16th October TIME - 20:30 EVENT - Poetry SPEAKERS - Christopher Reid and Anthony Wilson AUDIENCE - A level English students and all students
Christopher Reid is an
Freelance writer on health,
essayist, cartoonist, and
Anthony Wilson is a poet,
poet.
writing tutor and lecturer
A Scattering, won the 2009 Costa Book Award. Poetry Editor at Farber and Farber 1991-1999, working
at the University of Exeter.
fitness, lifestyle and travel. Written features for a wide variety of publications including
Books include Riddance,
You Magazine, The Times, The
Love for Now, and
Observer, The Guardian, Daily
Lifesaving Poems.
Mail, Independent on Sunday,
closely with Seamus
Writing residencies at The
Heaney and Ted Hughes.
Poetry Society, The Times Educational Supplement, The Poetry Trust and Tate
Evening Standard, Metro, Outdoor Fitness, Women’s Health and BodyFit. Travel editor for DIVA magazine.
Britain. Right now working on her first Serving as the 2014
non-fiction book, due to be
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
published by Faber&Faber in May
blogger.
2015.
Friday 17th October TIME - 09:40 EVENT - Travel SPEAKER - Rory MacLean AUDIENCE - 5th form English and 6th form with permission
TIME - 11:05 EVENT - Freelance SPEAKER - Lucy Fry AUDIENCE - 4th form sets and 6th form with permission
Rory Maclean One of Britain’s most innovative travel writers.
Freelance writer on health, fitness, lifestyle and travel.
Won awards from the Arts Council of England and
Written features for a wide
the Canada Council as
variety of publications including
Well as Winston
You Magazine, The Times, The
Churchill Travelling
Observer, The Guardian, Daily
Fellowship. Nominated for the International and the IMPAC Dublin Literary
Mail, Independent on Sunday, Lucy Fry
Evening Standard, Metro, Outdoor Fitness, Women’s Health and BodyFit.
prize.
Travel editor for DIVA magazine.
Written and presented
Right now working on her first
over 50 BBC radio
non-fiction book, due to be
programmes. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of England.
published by Faber&Faber in May 2015.
Friday 17th October TIME - 12:30 EVENT - Sitcom SPEAKER - James Cary AUDIENCE - A level English students and 6th form with permission
TIME - 15:30 EVENT - History SPEAKER - Stephen Cooper AUDIENCE - 3rd Form English and 6th form with permission The Final Whistle won Rugby James Cary
Book of the Year in the 2013
Comedy writer for BBC Times British Sports Book TV and Radio. Awards, and was featured in BBC TV’s World War One At Home.
Worked on series 1 & 2 of BBC’s award-winning
Madman in New York, London sitcom, Miranda, and also
and Toronto before beginning
co-wrote Miranda Hart’s
career as a travel journalist.
Jokeshop for BBC Radio 2. Written episodes of My Hero and My Family for BBC1. Radio credits include three series of Hut 33, four series of Think the Unthinkable, and Concrete Cow. He has also written four series of Another Case of Milton Jones with Milton Jones for BBC Radio 4.
Stephen Cooper
Friday 17th October TIME - 17:00
TIME - 21:00
EVENT - WORSHOPS
EVENT - Film
SPEAKERS Non-Fiction: MacLean Freelance: Fry Sitcom: Cary History: Cooper Film: Amereskere
SPEAKER Asitha Amereskere AUDIENCE 5th and 6th Form only
AUDIENCE - All students
TIME - 19:30 EVENT - Non-Fiction/Fiction SPEAKER - Gabriel Weston AUDIENCE - All students
Asitha Amereskere Member of European Film Academy and BAFTA.
Member of the Royal
A collection of short
College of Surgeons in
stories was published in
2003.
Sri Lanka in 2008. Films won awards
Written two books:
internationally,
Direct Red: A Surgeon’s
including the Short Film
Story (2010) tells the story
BAFTA in 2007 for Do
of what it is like to work as a
Not Erase.
surgeon. It won the 2010 Gabriel Weston
PEN/Ackerly Prize.
His short film 14
Dirty Work (2013) is a
Film Academy and
novel told from the point of
BAFTA nominations in
view of a female doctor who
2009/2010.
received both European
performs abortions, and is called before court when a woman suffers serious bleeding under her care.
Saturday 18th October
TIME - 09:40
TIME - 17:00
EVENT - School Lecture
EVENT - WORSHOPS
SPEAKER - Jonny Heawood
SPEAKERS Comedy: Rawlings Fiction: Clements Journalism: Glass, Whittell
AUDIENCE - Whole school
AUDIENCE - All students
TIME - 21:30 EVENT - Comedy SPEAKERS Ben Bond and James Rawlings
TIME - 19:30 EVENT - Newspapers SPEAKERS - Katie Glass and Giles Whittell
AUDIENCE 5th and 6th form only James Rawlings won the Perrier Award for comedy at the
AUDIENCE - All students
Edinburgh festival in 2002 with his sketch act The Consultants which went on to have 4 series on BBC Radio 4. Written, directed and produced over 70 projects for brands and advertising agencies. Co-founded Hoot, whose first film won 7 Grand Prixs comedy awards
Katie Glass just won the
Giles Whittell
2014 Young Stationer’s
The Times correspondent
The LA Film Festival and The
Prize for work for The
since 1993.
Friar’s Club.
Sunday Times. He has written four books: Also writes for: The Daily
Spitfire Women of World
Mail, The Observer, Elle
War II, Extreme
Magazine, Grazia and Marie
Continental Central Asia,
Claire, and internationally
Lambasa County
in The Australian, Marie Claire Australia and India, and Elle France, Czech Rep, Singapore & South Africa.
at festivals in the US including
Sunday 19th October TIME - 10:30 EVENT - The Novel SPEAKERS - Toby Clements and Evie Wyld AUDIENCE - A level English students and all students
Evie Wyld
Toby Clements
After the Fire, a Still Small
Writer, journalist and book
Voice: John Llewellyn Rhys
reviewer.
Prize and a Betty Trask Award.
Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims is his first novel.
All the Birds, Singing: Miles Franklin Award, the Encore Award, and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. 2013 Granta Magazine: Best of Young British Novelists.
Sunday 19th October TIME - 14:00
TIME - 15:30
EVENT - Non-Fiction
EVENT Rhetoric Closing Event
SPEAKER - Tobias Jones AUDIENCE - All students
SPEAKER - Sam Leith AUDIENCE A level English students and all students
Tobias Jones Best-selling author of The Dark Heart of Italy—which was made into a BBC documentary— Utopian
Sam Leith
Dreams, and Blood on the
Freelance writer and critic
Altar.
and Literary Editor of ‘The New Statesman.’
Nominated for the Sunday Times young writer of year award. Other books include a series of crime novels set in
Contributes columns to the Financial Times, the Evening Standard and Prospect, and his work appears regularly in the
Italy. Guardian, The Times, the Spectator and the TLS among others. His most recent book is You Talkin’ to Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama.
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