Five successful travel writers with very different approaches to their craft, including a blind and mostly deaf writer who has travelled the world solo and a feminist activist, will be speaking about their work at the University of Portsmouth this Wednesday.
Rules of the Road by Mike Manson
Tony Giles, Tom Sykes, Sarah Cheverton, Mike Manson and Tom Phillips will describe their approach to travel writing and read excerpts of their work. They will also be taking questions from the audience.
Drawing on their own enthralling travel experiences, their work spans poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction and journalism.
Tony Giles is a blind and mostly deaf writer whose travel autobiography is a young blind man’s angle on the world as he attempts to achieve his dreams, dealing with disability whilst living life to the full.
Tom Sykes is a journalist and co-editor of three anthologies of hitchhiking stories, whose writing has appeared in The Daily Telegraph.
Sarah Cheverton is a feminist activist, freelance writer, co-ordinator of the Portsmouth Writer Hub and Writer in Residence for Aurora New Dawn, a service working with victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence.
Mike Manson’s travel novel tells the story of two travellers as they get lost, meet strange people, buy weird footwear and avoid being eaten by tortoises.
Tom Phillips spent ten years working in radio before becoming a freelance journalist. He is also a poet and playwright whose plays have been staged in Bristol and Bath.
Travel writing has never been more interesting or more diverse than it is today. It has both broad appeal and literary import, with television personalities such as Michael Palin working in the genre alongside Nobel Laureates such as VS Naipaul.
The authors will be selling and signing their books at the end of the event.
Date: Wednesday March 13, 2013
Time: 6–7pm talk, followed by a drinks reception
Venue: Portland Building, Portland Street, Portsmouth PO1 3AH
Admission is free but by ticket only from http://offthepage.eventbrite.com
