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Tess Hadley Guinevere Glasfurd WW1 Poetry Event
8 October
7.30pm 22 October
7.30pm 5 November
6.00pm
University Common Room,
Keele Hall University Common Room,
Keele Hall University Common Room,
Keele Hall
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Tessa Hadley has written six
novels – including The London
Train and also The Past, which
won the Hawthornden Prize –
and three collections of short
stories. Bad Dreams and other
stories was published in 2017.
She publishes short stories
regularly in the New Yorker,
reviews for the Guardian and the
London Review of Books, and is
a Professor of Creative Writing
at Bath Spa University; she was
awarded a Windham Campbell
prize for Fiction in 2016. She will
be reading from her latest short
story collection, Bad Dreams. Originally from the north of
England, Guinevere Glasfurd
now lives and works in
Cambridgeshire. She has
a background in historical
research and has worked for
BBC History Online. Join us for another evening
of live reading with Keele Hall
Readings. Keele Hall Readings
take place in the lavish
University Common Room
in Keele Hall and feature
a wide range of readings
from poets and novelists
of international standing.
Her short fiction has been
published by Mslexia and the
Scotsman and she has won
awards from Arts Council
England and the British
Council for her work.
The Words in My Hand, her
first novel, is based on the
little-known story of Helena
Jans, who worked as a Dutch
maid and was Descartes’ lover.
Although many books have
been written about Descartes,
about Helena almost nothing
is known. Find out more here
guinevereglasfurd.com
To mark 100 years since the
end of the First World War,
Keele University will be hosting
a programme of events to mark
this commemoration this autumn.
Please visit keele.ac.uk/events
to find out more.
In association with Keele
Communities Together