Susie Wild: Reading and Q&A Session

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 of 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.

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