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‎'To get your author name take your first and last name, write a book, get it published and put your name on the cover.' #stillamusedbythis   @WstonesOxfordSt

Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 5.10pm Roderic Bowen Library and Archives Reading Room, Lampeter Campus, University  of Wales Trinity Saint David Susie Wild is a writer, poet, editor and journalist based in South Wales. She shall read from her Edge Hill long-listed debut collection of short stories The Art of Contraception, her ebook novella Arrivals and her current novel-in-progress for which she was a recipient o f a Literature Wales Bursary in 2011. She will also take part in a Q&A about life as a writer and editor, including advice on submitting manuscripts to Parthian Books. Facebook event page:  https://www.facebook.com/events/278269932230750/

The Secret Garden Published  Wednesday 11 January 2012  at  11:57  by  Susie Wild Angel Exit bring an imaginatively inventive retelling of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic children’s story to the stage. Ten year old Mary Lennox (Cheadle) is an orphaned, spiteful child who is brought from her home in Calcutta to a damp, shadowy Yorkshire mansion to live with her distant uncle. Left to her own devices, Mary Mary Quite Contrary discovers a key to a secret garden where nature, magic and three special people help to turn her into a much more agreeable young woman and reunite the family. Songs, musical rhythms, and gentle acrobatics keep the scenes changing and pace and narrative moving. Aimed at children aged six and over, Angel Exit have managed to keep a lighter tone to the book’s dark themes of grief and loss, the bereaved slowly taking comfort in seeing how their garden grows. Packed full of curiosities, the simplified production engages European tradi...

Thursday, January 19, 2012 T Description 'Notable Bohemian' Susie Wild brings her literary salon from Uplands, Swansea to Cardiff for 2012. The first session will run in association with Parthian Books and features good literary conversation dotted with readings from issue 15 of Almanac: The Yearbook of Welsh W riting in English edited by Katie Gramich. https://www.facebook.com/events/276543982406806/

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