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Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life as […]

History, philosophy, musings, poems, and tales of booze, horse brasses and Morris dancers. Join Andrew James Brown for a warm lager or two. Taking Orwell’s 1946 essay as a starting point, this show travels through pubs great and small, through country inns and city gin-palaces, across parquet and sticky carpet alike. A must for anyone […]

Join us at Japan Now 2019, as Kyōko Nakajima launches her first novel in English translation, The Little House, alongside her translator. Set in the early years of the Shōwa era (1926–89), and combining the nostalgic memories of a maidservant Taki, with the nation confronting the brutal realities of the era to come, the novel […]

Linda Rose Parkes, poet and painter, was born in the Channel Isles and studied literature at UEA where she went on to do the Creative Writing M.A with Malcolm Bradbury. She has published four poetry collections and her award-winning work has been praised for its elusive magic and haunting clarity. She continues to run poetry […]

Mobile technology has taken over the world. We use it to communicate privately with loved ones and to publicly display edited highlights of our lives. In this debate, Gerard Parr MBE, Professor of Computing Sciences at UEA, and writer Olivia Sudjic will address whether our increasing reliance on mobile technology is a vehicle for liberation […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life as […]

Indonesian short story writer and singer Reda Gaudiamo will tell stories based on her new children’s book, The Adventures of Na Willa, published by Emma Press. This is a collection of the curious adventures and musings of a multicultural girl growing up in Indonesia with a Javanese mother and a Chinese-Indonesian father. In a time […]

Elif Shafak Introduces Her Selection of Some of the Best Women Writers Working in the UK Today Great writing knows no borders: novelist and women’s rights activist Elif Shafak will reveal her selection of some of the best women writers working today as part of a major new showcase of UK writing. The International Literature […]

A discussion around the different forms of mentoring; what makes a successful mentorship; what are pitfalls; what is the impact, on translators and on the publishing industry more widely; what more is needed.  We will look at examples including the Emerging Translators Mentoring Scheme run by the National Centre for Writing, the Emerging Translator Mentorships […]

Women’s History Month Celebration Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and now lives in Edinburgh. She is co-editor of tender, an online quarterly promoting work by female-identified writers and artists, and editor of Currently & Emotion (Test Centre, 2016), an anthology of contemporary poetry translations. small white monkeys, a text on self-expression, self-help […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life as […]

Join Norwich’s writing community for a free evening of conversation, ideas and support each month. Open to anyone who makes, reads and works with words, the Dragon Hall Salon is an opportunity to grab a drink from the bar, meet people, cook up plans and compare notes, to talk books, and to hear what’s happening […]

Stand-up poet Laurie Bolger brings you stories and chats about comfort food, supermarket meltdowns, tea and pub love. Her warm and witty poems ask the big questions: how does that annoying passenger on the bus turn out to be the stranger that saves the day? Sometimes, when life is lonely, strangers give us the answers […]

As Brexit pushes the UK to redefine its relationships with neighbouring nations, we ask what borders do for us, and whether we need them at all. Daniel Trilling, journalist and author of Lights in the Distance, draws on years of reporting to build a portrait of refuge in a fractured Europe; Prof Sarah Barrow, Pro-Vice-Chancellor […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life as […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life as […]

Boiler House Press is a new publisher of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and everything in-between. They are based at the University of East Anglia, home of the world-renowned Creative Writing MA, and a burgeoning world centre for creative-critical writing studies. Boiler House are passionate about writing that breaks a mould; that surprises; that plays with-and-between the creative and […]