Creative Writing events coming up at the Arts Centre this semester:

Tuesday 10th October 7:30pm
Laid Bare Theatre Project presents The Value of NothingBy Kim Wiltshire
Directed by Joyce Branagh

Welcome. come on in. Take part in the project launch of ArtWorks, the new back to work initiative championed by the your friend and ours, the fantastic Vince Fine!

And so begins the press conference.

More like an event than a play, this Laid Bare show invites the audience to interact, be active and take part. In the world of The Value of Nothing, we are at the press conference from hell, witnessing the case of Vince Fine, an ambitious man, who seems to know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. As his world crashes in around him, the audience witness whether or not he can make the right choice – whether or not, in the end, he does know what to value.

As Vince champions his government ‘back to work’ initiative ArtWorks, the audience is invited to get involved with the lives of the characters. Multimedia elements and music create the setting, punctuated with human stories from young people about their real-life experiences of living on benefits in the UK today.

“This is where the real, human, down and dirty art is made. By us.”

Laid Bare Theatre: Theatre that asks questions

Tickets: £10 / £8 concs / £5 EHU students
FREE for EHU students who have signed up to The Arts Centre’s free membership scheme

Tuesday 14th November 7:30pm
Jessie Greengrass

Writer Jessie Greengrass was born in 1982. She studied philosophy in Cambridge and London where she now lives with her partner and their daughter.

Her collection of short stories, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw it, won the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of the Year Award. Her first novel will be published in 2018.

The evening’s readings will also feature MA students nominated for the MA Award associated with the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

Tickets: £5 all
FREE for EHU students who have signed up to The Arts Centre’s free membership scheme

November 23^rd 2017  Launch of Atlantic Drift: Edge Hill University Press!

Arts Theatre, Edge Hill University, 7.30pm

Introduced by the books' editors, Professor Robert Sheppard and Dr James Byrne and with opening remarks from Pro-Vice Chancellor Mark Allanson

Readers: Chris McCabe, Zoe Skoulding, Trevor Joyce

This event is FREE, though please sign up for tickets. Refreshments will be provided. 

This reading will feature three poets from this new and groundbreaking publication of poetry and poetics and a brief Q&A.