with Naomi Alderman

Tuesday 23 June │ 2pm – 5pm │ £25 │£20 conc. (OAP, unemployed, student)

Naomi Alderman

Orange Award winning novelist Naomi Alderman will deliver a workshop on the conflicting nature of fact and fiction within traditional creative fiction writing, talking about the ways that fiction always comes from some factual basis, and yet we as fiction writers want to conceal it. This is the chance to discover how the alchemy that turns life into fiction happens.

Biography

Naomi Alderman grew up in London and attended Oxford University and UEA. Her first novel, Disobedience, was published in ten languages; it was read on BBC radio’s Book at Bedtime and won the Orange Award for New Writers. In 2007, she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and one of Waterstones’ 25 Writers for the Future. In 2007 she was a judge of the Orange Award for New Writers and in 2008 was a judge of the National Short Story Award. From 2004 to 2007 Naomi was lead writer on the award-winning alternate reality game Perplex City and in 2008 she wrote the Alice in Storyland game for Penguin’s online We Tell Stories project.

To book a place, please email info@writerscentrenorwich.org.uk or call 01603 877177.