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 [...]

Debut
On Tuesday 23rd June, Writers’ Centre Norwich welcomed our international Worlds guests and local audiences to Norwich Arts Centre for Debut, an evening of words and music. The event showcased debut novels from three UK writers as well as music from two of Norwich’s finest.
The evening kicked off with a reading by Joe Dunthorne from [...]

The third and final day of the salon brought to the fore another key issue for the creative writer, that of translation. The dominant creative writing courses of British and American universities attract a wide international student base, yet the focus, inevitably, is writing in English. As readers, we enrich our understanding of literature, [...]

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 [...]