Each year, Worlds literary festival invites international writers to Norwich to engage in the week’s events and public readings. Alongside the public programme of work the festival also offers a daily round-table discussion session, at which writers from across the world can share thoughts and ideas. This unique Salon explores a different topic each year [...]

To talk about the role of creative writing in “the marketplace” as we did on Tuesday, in the 2nd morning of the Worlds09 literary salon, may seem to be anathemic to most writers; but of course, the majority of writers in the room act, work, write within that marketplace, even if what they are being [...]

It was perhaps only appropriate that half-way through this year’s Worlds festival, a coach load of writers found themselves wandering through the beautifully manicured maze at Somerleyton Hall (a visit planned to allow us to follow in W.G. Sebald’s footsteps, who wrote of the hall in “The Rings of Saturn.”) Writers are drawn to the [...]