X Marks the Spot: Writing and Place
Hemingway’s Pamplona. Ferrante’s Naples. Dickens’s London. Some places live in literature so vividly you can almost smell the air, hear the voices.
Writing with a strong sense of place not only transports us to unknown lands (or ones we already know, but now see differently), it also connects us to an internal landscape: that of memory, wandering and the meaning that we find through journeying.
On September 17th, join author Jayne Marshall, and editor of The Madrid Review, James Hartley, for a transportive discussion on writing and place.
Jayne Marshall’s debut story and essay collection A Line Drawn or Printed: Six Routes Through Madrid (Modern Odyssey Books), has the Spanish capital as a central and orientating presence, from where she looks outward to wider themes of love, loss, identity and belonging.
The Madrid Review is a literary magazine publishing work from new and well-known names around the world, but with its feet firmly on the ground in the cobbled streets and dusty plazas of Madrid. James Hartley will speak about place in the pieces he publishes in The Madrid Review.
Guests are invited to bring a piece of writing with a strong sense of place that speaks to them in some way. We encourage guests to share readings and what the locations and words mean to them.
And - as always - you won't want to miss the swag bags we have planned for guests, including a one-off writing and place chapbook courtesy of Modern Odyssey Books.
Los Tres Hermanos de Moriarty Marks the Spot
Timings:
19.30h: Arrive, settle, grab a drink or mingle
20h: Jayne and James in conversation
20.20h: Q&A
20.30h: Share readings, open conversation
21h: End