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Borderlines 2019 brochure B.indd 1 22/07/2019 17:59:40 FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE Events | Workshops | Poetry & Performance Unless otherwise stated, all of our events are 55 minutes long to allow enough travel time in between venues.

Thursday 26th September Joanne Harris, The Strawberry Thief 5.30pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £10 Ashley Cooper, Images from Sponsored by Truffles of Brampton a Warming Planet 7.30pm, Tullie House, £7 Scary Little Girls, Salon du Chocolat Carlisle One World Event 8pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £10 Saturday 28th September Saturday 5th October SpeakEasy, Freiraum Adele Parks Masterclass, 20 Tips for Getting 7.30pm, Cakes & Ale Café, Free - ticketed entry That Novel Written – No excuses! Sunday 29th September 10am - 1pm, Crown & Mitre Boardroom, £25 Zosia Wand, Readers’ Party Razwan Ul-Haq, Arabic Calligraphy: 5.30pm, Cakes & Ale Café, £6 including tea and cake Traditional Materials and Conceptual Art 10 - 11.30am, Tullie House Community Room, £12 Monday 30th September Sponsored by Architects Plus Natalie Haynes, Troy Story 7.30pm, Stanwix Arts Theatre, £8 Alan Brown, Overlander: A Bikepacking Journey Tuesday 1st October 10.30am, Tullie House, £7 Iain Matthews & Ian Clayton, Words and Music Malcolm Carson, Poetry Breakfast 7.30pm, Stanwix Arts Theatre, £8 10.30am - 12pm, Tullie House Function Room, Wednesday 2nd October £5 including refreshments Helen Weston, Writing as Therapy Nathan Filer, The Heartland: Finding and 10.30am – 12.30pm, Carlisle Library Meeting Room, Losing Schizophrenia £12 11.30am, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 , Happy Old Me Jamie Normington, The Lost Words 7.30pm, Tithe Barn, £10 11.30am, Carlisle Library, £4 adults, children free Sponsored by Life Helen Mort, Where Am I? Writing Place, Thursday 3rd October Placing Writing Lauren Sharkey, Resisters 12 - 2pm, Tullie House Meeting Room, £12 7.30pm, Stanwix Arts Theatre, Free - ticketed entry Sponsored by University of Cumbria, Sponsored by the Building Society Institute of the Arts Friday 4th October Emma Darwin, This is Not a Book About Sarah Davy, Starting a Writer’s Blog Charles Darwin: A Writer’s Journey 10.30am – 12.30pm, Through My Family Carlisle Library Meeting Room, £12 12.30pm, Tullie House, £7 Sponsored by Phil & Lit Society Sponsored by the Royal Literary Fund Tim Farron, A Better Ambition: Confessions Louise Minchin, Dare to Tri of a Faithful Liberal 1.30pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 1.30pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 Razwan Ul-Haq, Phobiastan - A Northern Ann Cleeves, Detective Creations English Art and Poetic Response to 3.30pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 Islamophobia Sponsored by Architects Plus 2pm, Carlisle Library, £5

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Cate Haste, Passionate Spirit: The Life of Helen Mort and Katie Hale, Where Do We Alma Mahler Draw the Line? 2.30pm, Crown & Mitre Edwardian Room, £8 11.30am, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 Sponsored by University of Cumbria, John Rees, The Leveller Revolution Institute of the Arts 2.30pm, Tullie House, £7 Sue Armstrong, Borrowed Time: How and Emma Darwin, Memoir, Life-Writing and Why We Age (Auto)Biographical Fiction 12.30pm, Tullie House, £7 3 - 5pm, Tullie House, £12 Angela Gallop, A Forensic Scientist’s Polly Atkin, Objectification: Writing the Search for the Truth World Through Objects 1.30pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 3 - 5pm, Crown & Mitre Boardroom, £12 Sponsored by University of Cumbria, Andrew Hill, Ruskinland Institute of the Arts 2.30pm, Tullie House, £7 Sponsored by University of Cumbria, Andrew Roberts, Institute of the Arts Churchill: Walking With Destiny 3.30pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 Emma Decent, I Don’t Know What I’m Supposed to be Doing Adele Parks, Truth, Truth, Truth: What’s It 2.30pm, Carlisle Library, £5 Like Being A Career Novelist? 4pm, Tullie House, £7 Andrew White, Marketing Yourself: A Guide for the Self-Published or Freelance Writer Gervase Phinn, The School Inspector Calls! 2.30 - 4.30pm, Tullie House Meeting Room, £12 5.30pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £10 Sponsored by Eric Hagan Opticians Eduardo Albert and Paul Gething, Warrior: A Life of War in Anglo-Saxon Britain Kerry Darbishire, Geraldine Green, Katie Hale 3.30pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 and Helen Mort, Northern Powerhouse 7.30pm, Cakes & Ale Café, £6 Jovan Nicholson, The Art of Kate Nicholson 4pm, Tullie House, £7 Amanda Owen, Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess Jackie Morris, The House Without Windows 8pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £10 5.30pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 Sunday 6th October Monday 7th October Luke Yates, An Introduction to Emotive Liz Grand, Where is Mrs Christie? Songwriting 7.30pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £12 10.30am - 12pm, Crown & Mitre Edwardian Room, Sponsored by Carlisle City Council £12 Border Mics! Open Mic Night with Marianne Taylor, Scottish Wildcats – Lucy Burnett Their Past, Present and Uncertain Future 7.30pm, Vallum Art Gallery, Brampton Road 10.30am, Tullie House, £7 Campus, Free - ticketed entry David Mark, Creative Writing Masterclass Tuesday 8th October 10.30am - 3.30pm, Crown & Mitre Boardroom, £35 An Evening with Alexander McCall Smith 7.30pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £10 Andrew White, Pitching and Writing Sponsored by University of Cumbria, for Magazines Institute of the Arts 10.30am - 12.30pm, Tullie House Meeting Room, £12

TICKET INFORMATION Online at www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk Please note that if tickets are posted out, there will In person from Bookends, 19 Castle Street, be an administrative fee of £1. Carlisle CA3 8SY, 9.30am - 5pm Monday - Saturday, By phone For queries only call 07412 366152 or 11.30am - 4pm Sunday email [email protected]

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ARTS & CULTURE MY LIFE IN... POETRY LifeGuide

Poet Polly Atkin near her home at Grasmere A way with words

Award-winning poet Polly Atkin grew up in Nottingham and moved to Grasmere in 2007 to work on her PhD about Dove Cottage. Her published poetry includes her 2017 debut collection Basic Nest Architecture and the 2018 pamphlet With Invisible Rain. Polly also teaches creative writing and runs a Wordsworth Trust poetry reading group. Diagnosed a few years ago with two hereditary illnesses, Polly is writing a book on chronic illness, place and belonging as a Penguin Random House WriteNow mentee. She lives in Grasmere with her partner, Will Smith

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My day varies depending on whether I’m writing, teaching, preparing for teaching and workshops, or doing an event – a reading, hosting at a literature festival or listening to other poets. On writing or recovery days I might be in my pyjamas all day!

Most of my published work is poetry and essays on poetry. My first pamphlet was published in 2008, although I’d had a lot of individual pieces published before that. I still do some academic writing, mainly on Romanticism and place, Grasmere and literary tourism.

One of the most exciting things was reading at Hay Festival in 2017 and being in the green room with Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry and Neil Gaiman. Getting on to Penguin’s WriteNow programme was also brilliant of course.

That moment when you realise you’ve reached an audience is wonderful, that something which matters to you also matters to them. But there are challenges too, including feelings of isolation.

My diagnoses changed all my ambitions. My illness needs manage- ment so, now that I’m freelance, when I have a bad day I just take time off. I love lake swimming and amble a lot, wandering around woods with my camera looking at small stuff. It’s all part of the writing process as well as the process of self-care.

I’m doing the final edits for my book and working on my second poetry collection and a project with two other poets for the Scottish Poetry Library. In the autumn I’ll be teaching again at Lancaster Un ive r s i ty.

I hope to continue with all my activities and possibly begin another non-poetry book. I always have lots of ideas and go with the flow to see which fall into place.

https://pollyatkin.com Twitter: @pollyrowena Facebook: www.facebook.com/pratkin Poetry reading group at Rydal Mount, third Thursdays of the month: https://wordsworth.org.uk

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WILL SMITH BOOK REVIEWS OF SAM READ BOOKSELLER ARTS & CULTURE LifeGuide

Book of the month The sociable time The Exiles An inheritance, and hurried plans of home Preserving what matters most: Katie renovation, sees the four Conroy sisters sent to visit tells a vivid tale with her debut novel “Big Grandma’s empire” of fell and field in the for the summer. Big Grandma warms to the role of guardian being “horribly talented in finding work for other The sociable time people to do” and is both HI M observer and participant in The Making of Poetry the summer’s battles for Following page: His mind is full of starlings (Pan Macmillan, £6.99) Coleridge, the Wordsworths and First published in 1992, power. award-winning Hilary Rain-drenched days their Year of Marvels McKay’s debut children’s tale give way to adventure, mild should find a whole new peril and an ending that is Taylor Coleridge and began audience in this bright new brave, unexpected and work on the Lyrical Ballads. edition. bittersweet. The scene is Somerset, M M I MOT summer 1797 to summer 1798, TI H and before 1799’s Cumbrian (Canongate, £14.99) homecoming, the Words- Reflections from the Lakes worths are living in Alfoxden. he much-anticipated Following in the group’s OT M debut novel from footsteps, Adam tracks and (Hayloft, £14) Shap-based writer situates William Wordsworth’s Robert’s latest work is an T Katie Hale is a vivid celebration of the natural expanded edition of the story that speaks powerfully world and his use of everyday 2010 collection Echoes of about the way we live now M IOO speech in poetry. Tom Old Lakeland (Bookcase), and and our hopes for the future. (William Collins, £25) Hammick’s startling woodcuts, is a valuable treasury of Katie introduces us to a Adam’s new biography is a interwoven throughout, are glimpses into the region’s dystopian future and yet a richly detailed and rewarding made with fallen timber from past. very real world. A sickness read, focusing on the year Alfoxden and are emblematic Opening with a history of and a war have blighted life Katie Hale, pictured near Keld when the Wordsworths struck of this inspired response to the Gilsland Spa and the region’s

on Earth. A woman known as RIGBY PHIL PHOTOGRAPH: up friendship with Samuel poets’ lives and works. spa resorts and springs, Monster, who has been locked the book ranges across the poets Richard underground in a seed vault, scrutinised, and in a marquee perspective cleverly leads the on Thursday, June 6 (7.30pm, subjects as diverse as the Braithwaite and John Richard- believes she is the sole “flower displays and vegeta- reader to question what we tickets £3). She will also be A Breed Apart Three Shire Stones, the son and the artist Ann survivor of all that has passed. bles and sponges” are judged. know of the world as it is and reading at Waterstones, history of wild cats in Macbeth. The novel opens with a It’s apt that some of the how humanity had sought to on Monday, June 17 My Adventures with Britain’s Rare Breeds Cumbria, packhorse bridges A noted writer on mammoth walk as Monster most resonant sections deal preserve what mattered the (6.30pm, tickets £2), Emma’s and Millom castle. Cumbria’s history, Robert is washes up on a Scottish shore with the refuge found in a fell most. Dell, Grasmere on Tuesday, some unfashionable, uneco- Less-documented figures a knowledgeable guide and proceeds to cross the farm. Establishing chores and Contradictions arise as June 18 (7.30pm, free entry) nomic or merely the purview are also given voice, with through some fascinating country looking to retreat daily routines within the Monster shifts between and a variety of Cumbria of the livestock collector, individual chapters on subjects. back to her native village. farm’s boundaries sets honesty and secrecy. Beyond Libraries events throughout Adam’s book is a warm and In poetic, allusive prose Monster on a path to homing the implications for the plot, June. The ticket prices informed account of Britain’s Katie captures the stark, in the most unhomely of questioning what is true mentioned are redeemable agricultural heritage. A Breed Also out now... remote landscape and the worlds. narrows down to the when the book is purchased. Apart is partially inspired by vivid feelings of Monster’s However, this life is still personal, and how we Adam’s father, Joe Henson, isolation. Long unmoored dependent upon scavenging in understand our own world- Suffolk-born writer, bookseller known to a generation through from society, Monster recalls the remains in the city, a views and those of others. and academic Will Smith has television shows such as ake her past and looks deep inside haunted, uncanny space, Sweeping in themes, My lived in Grasmere since 2010. M HO Animal Magic, but also a istrict ouldering for the will to survive. made eerie by the noise and Name is Monster deals with He is a bookseller at Grasmere’s (BBC Books, £20) founder of the Rare Breeds Monster’s home landscape threat of wild animals. intergenerational legacies, Sam Read’s and a visiting Herdwick sheep and fell Survival Trust. This attach- feels distinctly Cumbrian. The pacing of the book is self-definition and the lecturer at the University of ponies abound in the North ment informs Adam’s tour, Childhood memories are aided by several short, environment in complex Stirling. All books reviewed are Country of Adam’s journey making the book a unique interlaced with a summer fair distilled passages, which give ways. available from Sam Read around the British Isles. approach to the history of The Magpie’s est where a drystone waller gives us fragmented, filmic bursts Katie launches her novel at Bookseller, Grasmere, Looking back across breeds domestication, husbandry and Treasury of ird Folk Tales demonstrations, livestock are of narrative. A shift in Carlisle’s Cakes and Ale Café www.samreadbooks.co.uk that have been deemed by modern farming.

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Borderlines Book Festival has been developed through partnership working between public and private enterprise. The three partners are: Bookends Bookshop Carlisle; Cumbria County Council’s Library Service and Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Trust. Borderlines cumbrialife is a not-for-profit organisation with every penny going back into the festival. It has a fully constituted steering group consisting of representatives from the partner organisations, as Proud supporter of the well as a number of independent members. 2019 Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival and of Cumbrian arts and culture every month

ARTS & CULTURE MY LIFE IN... POETRY LifeGuide “Books do make

Poet Polly Atkin near her home at Grasmere A way with a room…and book words festivals do make Award-winning poet Polly Atkin grew up in Nottingham and moved to Grasmere in 2007 to work on her PhD about Dove Cottage. Her published poetry includes her 2017 debut collection Basic Nest Architecture and the 2018 pamphlet With Invisible Rain. Polly also teaches creative writing and runs a Wordsworth Trust poetry reading a town” group. Diagnosed a few years ago with two hereditary illnesses, Polly is writing a book on chronic illness, place and belonging as a Penguin Random House WriteNow mentee. She lives in Grasmere with her partner, Will Smith

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My day varies depending on whether I’m writing, teaching, preparing for teaching and workshops, or doing an event – a Books do make a room, and book festivals do reading, hosting at a literature festival or listening to other poets. On writing or recovery days I might be in my pyjamas all day! Most of my published work is poetry and essays on poetry. My first make a town. Oh yes, they do, giving it prestige pamphlet was published in 2008, although I’d had a lot of individual pieces published before that. I still do some academic writing, mainly on Romanticism and place, Grasmere and literary tourism. and status, a literary and intellectual aura, One of the most exciting things was reading at Hay Festival in 2017 and being in the green room with Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry and Neil Gaiman. Getting on to Penguin’s WriteNow programme was also brilliant of course. attract tourists and visitors, provide real, live, That moment when you realise you’ve reached an audience is wonderful, that something which matters to you also matters to them. But there are challenges too, including feelings of isolation.

My diagnoses changed all my ambitions. My illness needs manage- ment so, now that I’m freelance, when I have a bad day I just take time off. I love lake swimming and amble a lot, wandering around canned and mechanical internet nonsense. Most woods with my camera looking at small stuff. It’s all part of the writing process as well as the process of self-care.

I’m doing the final edits for my book and working on my second ofin all,the theyflesh keep entertainment authors off instead the streets, of all giving this poetry collection and a project with two other poets for the Scottish Poetry Library. In the autumn I’ll be teaching again at Lancaster Un ive r s i ty. them an audience, a bed, and with a bit of luck a I hope to continue with all my activities and possibly begin another non-poetry book. I always have lots of ideas and go with the flow to see which fall into place. Green Room with loads of free food and drink. https://pollyatkin.com Twitter: @pollyrowena Facebook: www.facebook.com/pratkin Poetry reading group at Rydal Mount, third Thursdays of the month: https://wordsworth.org.uk 136 / JUNE 2019 / CUMBRIA LIFE CUMBRIA LIFE / JUNE 2019 / 137 Alas I had to miss last year’s festival. I was 136 My Life in....indd All Pages 11/07/2019 10:15:43 otherwise engaged in St Bart’s. No, not the Caribbean island but St Bart’s, the hospital, having a triple heart by-pass. Now back

WILL SMITH BOOK REVIEWS OF SAM READ BOOKSELLER ARTS & CULTURE LifeGuide to playing football again, thanks for asking. So I In the last years of her life, Margaret did not Book of the month The sociable time The Exiles An inheritance, and will be in Carlisle for Borderlines this year. Can’t hurried plans of home do book events, signing sessions, or public Preserving what matters most: Katie renovation, sees the four Conroy sisters sent to visit tells a vivid tale with her debut novel “Big Grandma’s empire” of fell wait... and field in the Lake District for the summer. appearances. Me, I will go anywhere, the Big Grandma warms to the role of guardian being “horribly talented in finding work for other opening of a fridge even, smiling when the light The sociable time people to do” and is both Now please make an orderly queue in front HI M observer and participant in The Making of Poetry the summer’s battles for Following page: His mind is full of starlings (Pan Macmillan, £6.99) Coleridge, the Wordsworths and First published in 1992, power. goes on. award-winning Hilary Rain-drenched days of that table, where that poor, pathetic, lonely their Year of Marvels McKay’s debut children’s tale give way to adventure, mild should find a whole new peril and an ending that is Taylor Coleridge and began audience in this bright new brave, unexpected and work on the Lyrical Ballads. edition. bittersweet. author is sitting, nervous and hesitant, worrying The scene is Somerset, M M I MOT summer 1797 to summer 1798, Not of course for my own glory, perish the TI H and before 1799’s Cumbrian Reflections from the Lakes (Canongate, £14.99) homecoming, the Words- if anyone will really buy a copy of his wonderful worths are living in Alfoxden. he much-anticipated Following in the group’s OT M thought, but for the greater good of all book debut novel from footsteps, Adam tracks and (Hayloft, £14) Shap-based writer situates William Wordsworth’s Robert’s latest work is an T Katie Hale is a vivid celebration of the natural expanded edition of the book. story that speaks powerfully world and his use of everyday 2010 collection Echoes of festivals, everywhere but especially any in about the way we live now M IOO speech in poetry. Tom Old Lakeland (Bookcase), and and our hopes for the future. (William Collins, £25) Hammick’s startling woodcuts, is a valuable treasury of Katie introduces us to a Adam’s new biography is a interwoven throughout, are glimpses into the region’s dystopian future and yet a richly detailed and rewarding made with fallen timber from past. very real world. A sickness read, focusing on the year Alfoxden and are emblematic Opening with a history of When my late wife was alive, Carlisle. We need them. And we need you… and a war have blighted life Katie Hale, pictured near Keld when the Wordsworths struck of this inspired response to the Gilsland Spa and the region’s on Earth. A woman known as RIGBY PHIL PHOTOGRAPH: up friendship with Samuel poets’ lives and works. spa resorts and springs, Monster, who has been locked the book ranges across the poets Richard underground in a seed vault, scrutinised, and in a marquee perspective cleverly leads the on Thursday, June 6 (7.30pm, subjects as diverse as the Braithwaite and John Richard- believes she is the sole “flower displays and vegeta- reader to question what we tickets £3). She will also be A Breed Apart Three Shire Stones, the son and the artist Ann I often got quite a good queue and one of the survivor of all that has passed. bles and sponges” are judged. know of the world as it is and reading at Waterstones, history of wild cats in Macbeth. My Adventures with Britain’s Rare Breeds Thanks, and see you in October. The novel opens with a It’s apt that some of the how humanity had sought to Kendal on Monday, June 17 Cumbria, packhorse bridges A noted writer on mammoth walk as Monster most resonant sections deal preserve what mattered the (6.30pm, tickets £2), Emma’s and Millom castle. Cumbria’s history, Robert is washes up on a Scottish shore with the refuge found in a fell most. Dell, Grasmere on Tuesday, some unfashionable, uneco- Less-documented figures a knowledgeable guide frequent questions was “Is your wife here? It and proceeds to cross the farm. Establishing chores and Contradictions arise as June 18 (7.30pm, free entry) nomic or merely the purview are also given voice, with through some fascinating country looking to retreat daily routines within the Monster shifts between and a variety of Cumbria of the livestock collector, individual chapters on subjects. back to her native village. farm’s boundaries sets honesty and secrecy. Beyond Libraries events throughout Adam’s book is a warm and In poetic, allusive prose Monster on a path to homing the implications for the plot, June. The ticket prices informed account of Britain’s was your wife I really wanted to meet …” When Katie captures the stark, in the most unhomely of questioning what is true mentioned are redeemable agricultural heritage. A Breed Also out now... remote landscape and the worlds. narrows down to the when the book is purchased. Apart is partially inspired by vivid feelings of Monster’s However, this life is still personal, and how we Adam’s father, Joe Henson, isolation. Long unmoored dependent upon scavenging in understand our own world- Suffolk-born writer, bookseller known to a generation through ake I said “No, sorry,” they often immediately left the from society, Monster recalls the remains in the city, a views and those of others. and academic Will Smith has television shows such as istrict ouldering Hunter Davies OBE her past and looks deep inside haunted, uncanny space, Sweeping in themes, My lived in Grasmere since 2010. M HO Animal Magic, but also a for the will to survive. made eerie by the noise and Name is Monster deals with He is a bookseller at Grasmere’s (BBC Books, £20) founder of the Rare Breeds Monster’s home landscape threat of wild animals. intergenerational legacies, Sam Read’s and a visiting Herdwick sheep and fell Survival Trust. This attach- feels distinctly Cumbrian. The pacing of the book is self-definition and the lecturer at the University of ponies abound in the North ment informs Adam’s tour, queue, buying nowt. Childhood memories are aided by several short, environment in complex Stirling. All books reviewed are Country of Adam’s journey making the book a unique Honorary President interlaced with a summer fair distilled passages, which give ways. available from Sam Read around the British Isles. approach to the history of The Magpie’s est where a drystone waller gives us fragmented, filmic bursts Katie launches her novel at Bookseller, Grasmere, Looking back across breeds domestication, husbandry and Treasury of ird Folk Tales demonstrations, livestock are of narrative. A shift in Carlisle’s Cakes and Ale Café www.samreadbooks.co.uk that have been deemed by modern farming.

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Borderlines 2019 brochure B.indd 5 22/07/2019 17:59:41 Borderlines programme A5 cumbria Life sub.indd 1 11/07/2019 10:25:23 The landscape of the English Lake District has been a source of inspiration to generations of poets, novelists, and other writers. The MA in Literature, Romanticism, and the English Lake District offers you a unique opportunity to study literary texts from the 18th to the 21st Century within the landscape and environment which inspired them. The MA Creative Writing gives you the opportunity to hone your craft, write your own response to these and other landscapes and identify your own writing inspirations and passions. Both courses are taught at the University of Cumbria’s beautiful Ambleside campus, in the heart of the Lake District National Park - now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The full-time Literature MA runs for 11 months from September to August with three classes per week taught across two days, but can also be studied part-time, over two years. The full-time MA Creative Writing is taught through an innovative mix of three intensive week-long residentials, plus online / distance learning, enabling you to fit your learning around your other work and life commitments.

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Thursday 26th September Saturday 28th September 7.30pm | Tullie House Museum | £7 7.30pm | Cakes & Ale Café | Free – ticketed entry Ashley Cooper SpeakEasy Images From a Warming Planet Freiraum Freiraum (Spheres of Freedom) explored the question: “What does freedom mean in present day Europe?” It was a creative project Ashley Cooper developed and managed by AWAZ Cumbria, undertook a working with Cumbria based artists and groups fourteen-year project including SpeakEasy, and part of a wider project to document the of the Goethe-Institut. causes of climate change, its many This event includes performances by many impacts and the rise of the Carlisle contributors, and offers the of renewable energy, chance to purchase the anthology, published on every continent by Nick Pemberton’s Caldew Press. Following on the planet. The Nick’s death, Susan Cartwright-Smith and stunning visual Philip Hewitson have taken over Caldew Press, images he captured continuing to produce works from SpeakEasy, depict how natural and local poets. ecosystems are collapsing as the world warms. Susan Cartwright-Smith is a writer, open water These images, and the measures we can take swimmer, costume maker, clog dancer, poet and to avoid the worst excesses of climate change, fell walker. She has worked have been published in his award-winning book, for a variety of theatres and Images From a Warming Planet. venues, including English National Opera, Derngate After gaining an Theatre and Rosehill Theatre. Honours Degree She is a regular contributor to in Geography Tullie House evenings such as from Aberystwyth Black History and Museums University, Ashley at Night. She has had work Cooper spent three published by The Wildlife Trust, Forward Poetry, months travelling Arachne Press, and Caldew Press. through East Africa before returning home Philip Hewitson is a writer, to work, or fundraise, poet, and film maker with a for several charities. small production company, In 1994 he did his first Tolivar Productions. He also climate change photo shoot in Alaska, becoming hosts SpeakEasy open mic, a full time professional photographer in 2010 has produced films for Carlisle - the year he won the climate change category Fringe festivals, facilitates of the Environmental Photographer of the Year Film Fling, and provides Competition. He lives in Cumbria. promotional films for Carlisle Unity festivals and the Multicultural Bazaar.

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Sunday 29th September the stories of the women 5.30pm | Cakes & Ale Café affected are largely untold £6 including tea and cake but Natalie takes them out Zosia Wand of the shadows and puts Readers’ Party them where they belong – at the heart of the story. What’s the best Natalie Haynes is a book you’ve read comedian, classicist, writer this year? Who and broadcaster. She writes is your favourite for the Guardian and is a fictional character? regular contributor to BBC Radio 4 programmes Where do you like including Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the to read? What’s the Classics, now into its fifth series. She is the worst book you’ve author of five books: her most recent novel,A had recommended? Thousand Ships, was published in May this year. Join author, Zosia Wand for an evening dedicated to the joy of Tuesday 1st October reading. Tea and cake included! 7.30pm | Stanwix Arts Theatre | £8 “Proof that book discussions do not have to be Iain Matthews and Ian Clayton stuffy or high-brow. A great event. Illuminating, Words and Music incisive and fun.” Iain Matthews’ Zosia Wand is a novelist, playwright and critically acclaimed occasional poet. She is passionate about books. memoir Thro’ My Her reading tastes are broad and eclectic. Eyes is structured Always delighted to meet other readers and around a series of discuss reading habits, Readers’ Parties are her Matthews’ songs invention, a ruse to meet other readers and and illustrated by share new recommendations. the stories that inspired them. Together with co-author Ian Monday 30th September Clayton, this intimate show brings the book to 7.30pm | Stanwix Arts Theatre | £8 life with stories read by Ian Clayton interspersed Natalie Haynes with live songs from Iain Matthews. Troy Story Iain Matthews is best known as vocalist for Star of the BBC Radio 4 Fairport Convention, Matthews Southern series, Natalie Haynes Comfort, Plainsong and a prolific solo career. Stands Up for the Classics, In over 50 years in the music business, he has Natalie brings her unique made a string of highly regarded albums and combination of ancient was recently described as ‘the Godfather of history and stand-up Americana in the UK’. comedy to take you on a Ian Clayton is an author, broadcaster and tour around the Trojan War, storyteller. His books include Bringing It All Back the setting for her latest Home, a bestselling book about music; Song For novel A Thousand Ships. My Father about his lifelong search for a father From the causes of the war figure;Our Billie about loss; and It’s The Beer to its complex aftermath, Talking about a life in public houses and ale.

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Wednesday 2nd October Thursday 3rd October 7.30pm | Tithe Barn | £10 7.30pm | Stanwix Arts Theatre Hunter Davies Free – ticketed entry Happy Old Me Lauren Sharkey Resisters Sponsored by Cumbria Life Sponsored by the Cumberland Building Hunter missed last Society year’s festival as he had to have Change is happening. emergency triple And whether it’s the heart bypass fight for gender equality surgery. This or a desire to halt year, the boy’s the climate crisis, the back in town. youth are leading it, After 55 years following the example of marriage to of young activists such Margaret Forster, as Sweden’s Greta three years ago Thunberg. In this eye- Hunter was left opening discussion, author Lauren Sharkey and on his own. How a panel of inspirational women will delve into the Photograph: Charlotte Knee did he cope? Did causes that deserve attention and offer tips on he manage the dishwasher? Did he sell his how young people can be the change they want Loweswater house? And did he find a new to see in the world. chum? All will be revealed tonight when Hunter will be in conversation with Cumbria Life editor, The panel includes: Michaela Robinson-Tate. former Miss Cumbria and charity campaigner Claire Hunter Davies was Bell; Carlisle Youth Zone born in Renfrew, Development Manager and brought Lynsey Buckle; Carlisle’s first up in Carlisle from Green Party City Councillor the age of eight. Helen Davison; and BBC He was educated at Radio Cumbria presenter Caroline Robertson. and is one of our best known and most Lauren Sharkey is a London- based journalist prolific writers and and author specialising in gender equality, journalists. Happy Old cultural issues and women’s rights. She began Me is his third volume her career in the fashion industry before moving of memoirs following to work at Yahoo. Her first book,Resisters: 52 The Co-op’s got Young Women Making Herstory Right Now, tells Bananas and A Life in the stories of young campaigners between the the Day. ages of 9 and 22 currently working to improve the lives of people across the globe.

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Friday 4th October Friday 4th October 1.30pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 3.30pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 Tim Farron Ann Cleeves A Better Ambition: Confessions of a Detective Creations Faithful Liberal Sponsored by As with his Architects Plus autobiography, Join Ann Cleeves, A Better the bestselling Ambition, Tim author and creator Farron’s talk of popular detectives will offer an Vera Stanhope and insider’s view Jimmy Perez, for an of the defining afternoon of crime events in the and chat. Find out turbulent how your favourite politics of characters come to recent years. life and meet her After the brand-new creation, coalition government, and with the current Detective Matthew division over Brexit and Scottish independence, Venn, from The Long he will ask what role there is for compromise Call, the first novel of and reconciliation, and question whether - her new series, set in having achieved dominance in the western North Devon where world - Liberalism might have lost itself in the Ann grew up. process. Can it be redeemed, and what is next for British politics? Ann Cleeves is the author of over thirty Tim Farron was the critically acclaimed president of the novels and the Liberal Democrats hugely successful during coalition, the TV series Vera and party leader during Shetland are based the referendum, the on her books. In 2017 winner of Celebrity Ann was awarded Mastermind and the highest accolade has been MP for in crime writing, Westmorland and the CWA Diamond Lonsdale from 2005 Dagger. Ann is also a to the present. passionate champion He is a liberal to for libraries and was a his fingertips, a National Libraries Day committed Christian Ambassador. and a Blackburn Rovers fanatic. He and his wife Rose live in Cumbria with their four children and dog Jasper.

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Friday 4th October Friday 4th October 5.30pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £10 8pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £10 Joanne Harris Scary Little Girls The Strawberry Thief Salon du Chocolat Sponsored by Allow the Salon du Chocolat to stimulate your Truffles of Brampton senses! Bestselling author When chocolate was Joanne Harris talks first introduced in about her life, career England in the 1600s, and her return to it was considered writing about her a taboo substance, best-known characters enjoyed only by from Chocolat. the risqué and elite Her new novel The in private salons. Strawberry Thief has Some of our finest Photograph: Kyte Photography been written twenty literature was also years on since she first once considered too introduced us to Vianne Rocher, her daughters provocative for public and her fellow villagers in Lansquenet-sous- consumption and was heard in similar salon Tannes. Joanne will be in environments by only the boldest of ears. Scary conversation with BBC Arts Little Girls recreate these intimate environs, producer, Serena Field. combining mouth-watering chocolate treats with tales of the secret, the banned and the Joanne Harris was born in scandalous from authors such as Lord Byron, Barnsley, of a French mother John Donne, Angela Carter and Joanne Harris. and an English father. She was educated at Cambridge 90 minute performance, including interval. and was a teacher for many Age guidance 14+ years. She has written several novels, screenplays, Scary Little Girls a musical and three is an English cookbooks. In 2000, her production million-selling novel Chocolat company with was adapted to the Oscar- a passion for nominated film starring stories that Juliette Binoche and Johnny are historically Depp. Joanne is an Honorary or culturally Fellow of St Catherine’s excluded. Most College, Cambridge, and in of their work 2013 was awarded an MBE. revolves around literary, feminist TICKET OFFER: To celebrate our love of and historical themes. They have appeared chocolate, why not indulge in a double regularly at the Edinburgh Fringe as well as at helping? Buy tickets for Joanne Harris and Glastonbury Festival. Salon du Chocolat (Friday 4th October, 8pm Crown & Mitre Ballroom) for £16.

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Saturday 5th October is relaxed and supportive with Malcolm Carson 10.30am | Tullie House Museum | £7 hosting our popular poetry breakfast. The ticket Alan Brown price includes a hot drink and pastry. Overland: A Bikepacking Journey Malcolm Carson was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. He studied English at Nottingham Seeking an escape from University, and then taught in colleges and city life and a world universities. He has had four poetry collections gone mad, Alan Brown published by Shoestring Press: Breccia in 2006, challenged himself to Rangi Changi in 2011, Route Choice, in 2016, an off-road coast-to- The Where and When in 2019, and a pamphlet, coast ride through the Cleethorpes Comes to Paris in 2014. Highlands – without creature comforts or high- Saturday 5th October tech cycling gear. This is 11.30am | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 the story of the ups and Nathan Filer downs, from weather to wildlife, and the sheer pleasure he discovered in The Heartland: Finding and Losing the freedom and self-reliance. Schizophrenia Alan Brown has had a varied career including Nathan Filer, mental health environmental chemistry, academia and nurse and award-winning freelance programming. As a director of the writer, takes us on a journey charity The Bike Station in Edinburgh, he is an into the psychiatric wards advocate for cycling and its benefits to health where he once worked. He and society. Overlander, his first book, has also invites us to spend time been greeted with both enthusiasm and critical with world-leading experts, acclaim. and with some extraordinary people who share their Ticket offer: Interested in sporting Photograph: own true stories about challenges? Buy a double ticket for Alan Emily Parker living with this strange Brown and Louise Minchin: Dare to Tri and misunderstood condition. Along the way, (Saturday 5th October, 1.30pm, Crown & Mitre he helps us open our minds to new ways of Ballroom) for £12. thinking about mental health, about each other, and about ourselves. Saturday 5th October 10.30am - 12pm Nathan Filer is a qualified Tullie House Function Room | £5 mental health nurse. The Shock Malcolm Carson of the Fall, his novel about the life of a young man grieving Poetry Breakfast the loss of his brother, has sold Time to listen to poets and over half a million copies and writers reading their own was a Sunday Times bestseller work, or perhaps time to and translated into thirty read your favourite prose languages. It won the Costa or poetry, if you don’t write Book of the Year in 2013, and your own. Usually, around the Betty Trask Prize for first novel in 2014. He five minutes is allowed per writes for the Guardian and the New York Times. reader and the atmosphere He is currently a Reader in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

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Saturday 5th October Saturday 5th October 11.30am | Carlisle Library 12.30pm | Tullie House Museum | £7 £4 for adults, free for children Emma Darwin Jamie Normington This is Not a Book About Charles The Lost Words Darwin: A writer’s journey through Robert Macfarlane and my family Jackie Morris’ acclaimed Sponsored by the book, The Lost Words, Royal Literary Fund was inspired by the decision to remove fifty Books about Emma ‘nature’ words from the Darwin’s great-great- Oxford Junior Dictionary grandparents, Charles – words like “acorn”, and Emma Darwin, “bluebell” and “wren” - to are legion, but when make way for words more she agreed to write associated with the interior, solitary, tech- a novel about her based childhoods of today, like “broadband”, family, she looked “chatroom” and “voicemail”. for stories less often told. Join her on her In June 2019, Jamie Normington, of Cumbria Photograph: JP Masclet journey through the Wildlife Trust, walked 200 miles carrying a copy artists, scientists, of The Lost Words to raise money for copies of composers & poets of the Darwin-Wedgwood- it to be put into 200 schools in Cumbria, and to Galton clan, as seen through the lens of her raise money for autism support. In this family creative struggle to write fiction about them. friendly event for all ages, Jamie will recount funny stories from his “Lost Words” journey, Emma Darwin’s debut accompanied by amazing wildlife art and novel, The Mathematics photographs, and beautiful music from The Lost of Love, was nominated Words’ Spell Songs…..and there might even be for both Commonwealth time for a proper game of conkers! Writers’ Best First Book, and RNA Novel of the Children are invited to bring Year; her memoir, This is along to the event their own Not a Book About Charles drawings inspired by the “lost Darwin, was published words”, and there will be a in February. She has a signed copy of The Lost Words PhD in Creative Writing book for the best one. and blogs at This Itch of Jamie Normington is Cumbria Writing. Wildlife Trust’s Education & This talk is kindly sponsored by the Royal Volunteer Officer. He is one of Cumbria’s most Literary Fund, which was founded in 1790 to enthusiastic voices for wildlife and for all the help professional authors. Past beneficiaries people who enjoy nature around our county. have included Coleridge, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Ticket offer: buy a double ticket for Jamie D H Lawrence and Dylan Thomas. Last year it Normington and Jackie Morris: The House helped 200 writers, though not all of them are Without Windows (Sunday 6th October, quite so famous yet. 7.30pm, Crown & Mitre) for £10.

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Saturday 5th October Saturday 5th October 1.30pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 2pm | Carlisle Library | £5 Louise Minchin Razwan Ul-Haq Dare to Tri Phobiastan -a Northern English Art Dare to Tri tells & Poetic Response to Islamophobia the amazing Phobiastan touches story of Louise on themes of Minchin’s Islamophobia and journey from belonging in the the BBC North of England. Breakfast sofa Through imagery to representing of rain, Arabic Great Britain calligraphy and at the World interesting facts Triathlon – such as the reaction of the first Arab explorer Championships. to England 850 years ago – Razwan moves the A warm and reader towards healing in a fragmented world. wonderfully honest account Razwan Ul-Haq is an that will both artist and author, blending entertain and English poetry and Arabic inspire, Louise explains how she rediscovered Calligraphy. He is a widely competitive sport after 30 years and took her exhibited artist whose first tentative steps as a triathlete. work has been displayed in galleries and museums. His Louise Minchin commissions include Land is one of the UK’s Art for the inaugural Tour best-known news de of Britain and to presenters and celebrate the birthday of broadcasters. For Her Majesty the Queen. more than six years she has been the Saturday 5th October anchor of BBC 2.30pm | Crown & Mitre Edwardian Room | £8 Breakfast, the Cate Haste UK’s most popular Passionate Spirit breakfast television programme, watched Cate Haste’s Passionate by over six million Spirit: The Life of Alma viewers a day. Mahler is a major reappraisal of Alma Ticket offer: buy a double ticket for Louise Mahler, one of the most Minchin and Alan Brown: Overlander - a misunderstood and Bikepacking Journey (Saturday 5th October, controversial muses in 10.30am, Tullie House) for £12. recent history. Haste looks beyond the men who were besotted with

Photograph: Peter Ibbotson Alma to reassess her

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legend and legacy. She draws extensively on John Rees is an historian, broadcaster and unpublished letters (both Alma’s and others) campaigner. He is co-author of A People’s and diaries, bringing to light a woman who was History of London and author of The Leveller determined to pursue her independence and Revolution and Timelines: A Political History forge her own path. of the Modern World, among other titles. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmith’s, Cate Haste is a University of London and a National Officer of biographer, author and the Stop the War Coalition. documentary filmmaker. She spent considerable Saturday 5th October time studying the letters 3.30pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 and diaries of Alma and Andrew Roberts her friends, husbands Churchill: Walking with Destiny and contemporaries, as well as many enjoyable Winston Churchill towers hours interviewing over every other figure Alma’s granddaughter, in twentieth-century Marina Mahler. Her British history. Andrew previous works include Roberts draws on over the prize-winning : A Passion for Paint, forty new sources, and books including Craigie Aitchison, Nazi including the private Women, Clarissa Eden and, with Cherie Blair, The diaries of King George Goldfish Bowl. VI, to depict Churchill far more intimately as Saturday 5th October Photograph: Anna Kunst an individual, warts and 2.30pm | Tullie House Museum | £7 all. He reveals his virtues and character, his John Rees titanic capacity for work (and drink), his ability The Leveller Revolution to see the big picture and his willingness to take risks, together with his John Rees brings to life friendships and family life. the men and women who ensured victory and Andrew Roberts is a became an inspiration to biographer and historian republicans of many nations. of international renown The Levellers became a whose books include political movement during Salisbury: Victorian Titan; the English Civil Wars Masters and Commanders; (1642–1651), committed to and The Storm of War. popular sovereignty, wider His most recent book was suffrage, equality before the Napoleon the Great. He law and religious tolerance. is a Fellow of the Royal They are central figures in Society of Literature and the Royal Historical the history of democracy Society, and a Trustee of the International and their story reasserts Churchill Society. He is currently Visiting the revolutionary nature of Professor at the Dept of War Studies at King’s the Civil War, and the role College, London. of ordinary people in this pivotal moment in history.

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Saturday 5th October inspector. Gervase is a born raconteur and his 4pm | Tullie House Museum | £7 stories are amusing, perceptive, and sometimes Adele Parks poignant. His talk is guaranteed to be laugh- Truth, Truth, Truth: What’s It Like out-loud funny, and entertaining. Being a Career Novelist? Gervase Phinn is a freelance lecturer, Adele Parks always wanted broadcaster, writer, poet, to be a writer: she will tell educational consultant us how that ambition was and a visiting professor of realised and reveal what education. For fourteen the day to day reality of years he taught in a range being a novelist is like for of schools in Yorkshire, and her. Adele will explain where spent a further ten years she gets her inspiration as a school inspector - and the importance time that has provided Photograph: Sekkides of self-motivation and much source material for organisation. Her latest domestic thriller is Lies, his books. Lies, Lies, a gripping and unsettling tale full of twists and turns! Saturday 5th October 7.30pm | Cakes & Ale Cafe | £6 Adele Parks is one of Britain’s most successful Kerry Darbishire, Geraldine Green, and best-known novelists Katie Hale and Helen Mort and has published eighteen Northern Powerhouse bestselling novels in eighteen years. A multi Join us in the charming Cakes & Ale Café for an award-winning author, she evening with four poets based in the North of has sold 3.5 million copies England, whose poetry is rooted in place and of her work in the UK alone travels the globe: Helen Mort, Geraldine Green, and is translated into Kerry Darbishire and Katie Hale. twenty-six languages. Adele Kerry Darbishire’s lives in Guildford with her family. poems appear widely Saturday 5th October in anthologies and 5.30pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £10 magazines, have won competition prizes and Gervase Phinn been shortlisted for the The School Inspector Calls! Bridport Prize 2017. She has published two poetry Sponsored by collections: A Lift of Wings Eric Hagan Opticians (2014) and Distance Sweet Prepare yourself for a on my Tongue (2018), a feast of observational finalist in the Cumbria Culture Awards 2019. Her humour and laughter as biography Kay’s Ark was published in 2016 by Gervase Phinn recounts Handstand Press. tales and anecdotes Cumbrian poet Geraldine Green is a creative from his life as a writing tutor and editor. Her work appears teacher and as a school

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widely in anthologies in After working as a freelance the UK and USA. She has shepherdess, cow milker three collections and four and alpaca shearer, she pamphlets. In 2011 she eventually settled down as gained a PhD in Creative a full-time shepherdess with Writing from Lancaster her own flock of sheep at University. Passing Ravenseat. Adventures of Through was published in the Yorkshire Shepherdess 2018 by Indigo Dreams. is the third volume of her memoirs. Amanda was last Katie Hale’s debut novel, My Name is Monster, year voted Yorkshirewoman was published by Canongate in 2019. She is of the Year by the Dalesman magazine. the author of two poetry pamphlets: Breaking the Surface (2017) and Assembly Instructions Sunday 6th October (2019), which won the Munster Fool for Poetry 10.30am | Tullie House Museum | £7 Chapbook Prize. Marianne Taylor Helen Mort has published two poetry Scottish Wildcats: Their Past, collections with Chatto & Windus, Division Street Present and Uncertain Future (2013) and No Map Could Show Them (2015). She won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize for best In her evocative nature first collection. Her first novelBlack Car Burning narrative, Tracking the was published in 2019. Highland Tiger, Marianne Taylor goes in search of the Saturday 5th October mysterious and rarely seen 8pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £10 Scottish wildcat, which, as Amanda Owen Britain’s most threatened mammal, is on the edge of Adventures of the Yorkshire extinction. It may already Shepherdess be extinct in the wild. How did things reach crisis point for this famously Amanda Owen and ferocious predator, and can we save it and her family recently restore its populations? featured in hit TV series Our Yorkshire Farm, Marianne Taylor is a nature watched by over 2 million writer, photographer and viewers. This mum of illustrator. She has written nine (ranging in age many natural history books, from two to seventeen) including Dragonflight and and shepherdess to a The Way of the Hare. As a thousand sheep brings cat-lover from her earliest us up-to-date with life years, she has held a life- on the farm with her long fascination with the husband Clive, nine children and umpteen mysterious Scottish wildcat animals at Ravenseat in the Yorkshire Dales. and its remote, rugged habitats. Amanda Owen grew up in Huddersfield but was inspired by the James Herriot books to leave her town life behind and head to the countryside.

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Sunday 6th October Sunday 6th October 11.30am | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 12.30pm | Tullie House Museum | £7 Helen Mort and Katie Hale Sue Armstrong Where Do We Draw the Line? Borrowed Time: How and Why Sponsored by We Age University of Cumbria, In the UK the proportion of Institute of the Arts people over 85 is growing faster than any other age group. The implication for society – for jobs, pensions, health care - is a major preoccupation of our time. Here, science writer Sue Armstrong tells of the quest to understand Photograph: Jan Bella Photograph: Phil Rigby ageing, and how to prevent or delay the Two poets-turned-novelists talk about the crippling conditions associated with old age. process of writing their debut works of fiction Sue Armstrong is a science and whether being poets already gave them an writer and broadcaster advantage in writing that first novel. How do living in Edinburgh. She is the art forms of poetry and prose inform one the author of several books, another and how do their novels reflect this? including p54: The Gene that Katie Hale’s debut novel, Cracked the Cancer Code and My Name is Monster was A Matter of Life and Death: published by Canongate Inside the Hidden World of the in 2019. She is the author Pathologist. of two poetry pamphlets: Ticket offer: buy a double ticket for Sue Breaking the Surface and Armstrong and Emma Decent: I Don’t Know Assembly Instructions which What I’m Supposed To Be Doing (Sunday 6th won the Munster Fool for October, 2.30pm, Carlisle Library) for £10. Poetry Chapbook Prize. She is a former MacDowell Fellow Sunday 6th October and Wordsworth Trust Poet in 1.30pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 Residence. She regularly runs poetry workshops in schools. Angela Gallop A Forensic Scientist’s Search for the Helen Mort has published two poetry collections with Truth Chatto & Windus, Division As one of the world’s most Street and No Map Could Show eminent forensic scientists, Them. She won the Fenton Professor Angela Gallop Aldeburgh Prize for best has helped solve many first collection. Her novelBlack Car Burning was high-profile cases such published in 2019. She teaches creative writing as the killings of Stephen at Manchester Metropolitan University and she Lawrence, Damilola is also the author of Lake District Trail Running Taylor and Rachel Nickell. (Vertebrate). Never before has criminal

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justice rested so heavily Andrew Hill is an award- on scientific evidence and, winning columnist, senior from her first crime scene journalist and management in a case that involved editor at the Financial the Yorkshire Ripper, to Times. He is the author of her latest investigations, Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Professor Gallop has seen Shapes Our World (Pallas tremendous change. Far Athene, 2019) and Leadership more fascinating than any in the Headlines, a selection fiction, her cases and how of his FT columns and insights about how she reached her conclusions, leaders lead. make for riveting reading in her memoir, When the Dogs Don’t Bark. Ticket offer: buy a double ticket for Andrew Hill and Jovan Nicholson: The Art of Kate Angela Gallop, during her 40 year career, has Nicholson (Sunday 6th October, 4pm, Tullie specialised in cold-case investigations, and House) for £10. has led forensic teams to find vital evidence in many of the UK’s most challenging cases. She Sunday 6th October is professor of Forensic Science at Strathclyde 2.30pm | Carlisle Library | £5 University and was awarded a CBE in 2015 for Emma Decent her services to forensic science. I Don’t Know What I’m Supposed To Be Doing Sunday 6th October 2.30pm | Tullie House Museum | £7 ‘I don’t know what Andrew Hill I’m supposed to Ruskinland be doing’ was something Emma’s Sponsored by librarian mother said University of Cumbria, repeatedly when she Institute of the Arts had dementia. Now she’s died Emma is Who was John wondering that for herself. A powerful, funny Ruskin? What did one-woman show using theatre, film and library he achieve - and books to tell a family tale that packs a punch. how? And what makes his ideas so Emma Decent is a writer, performer, poet important today? and theatre-maker based in the north. She In the bicentenary specialises in autobiographical themes, year of the birth of inspiring audiences wherever she goes with her this great thinker entertaining, touching and thought-provoking and champion of performances. Relevant and challenging, she the Lake District, tells stories for all navigating life, one another Andrew Hill explains and the human condition. how he discovered Ruskin and how the Victorian writer’s ideas on art, architecture, economics, Ticket offer: buy a double ticket for Emma science and the environment shape the way we Decent and Sue Armstrong: Borrowed Time: live, think and work today. How and Why We Age (Sunday 6th October, 12.30pm, Tullie House) for £10

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Sunday 6th October Sunday 6th October 3.30pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 4pm | Tullie House Museum | £7 Edoardo Albert and Paul Gething Jovan Nicholson Warrior: A Life of War in The Art of Kate Nicholson Anglo-Saxon Britain Jovan explores This is the the career of the thrilling true tale St Ives artist Kate of an Anglo-Saxon Nicholson, daughter warrior skeleton of Ben and Winifred unearthed at Nicholson, from her the Bamburgh early landscapes, the Castle dig in still lifes painted in Northumberland. Cumberland and St The authors trace Ives, the abstracts – Photograph: Tjasa Kalamar his life from being many inspired by her a celebrated fighter in the service of the king, to travels in – to his burial with his young son. They recreate the the late works made on the Isle of Eigg in the turbulent times in which he lived, when Britain Hebrides. He looks at her artistic relationship was a patchwork of competing kingdoms, riven with her mother, Winifred, with whom she by waves of religious fervour, scattered tribal painted in Cumberland, Scotland and Greece. expansion and terrible bloodshed. Jovan Nicholson Edoardo Albert is a is an art historian writer, journalist and and curator with a historian who has particular interest in published several books modern British art. He set in the Anglo-Saxon is an acknowledged period. He has written for expert on Winifred the Sunday Times, History Nicholson’s work, a Today and Time Out. He grandson of Ben and co-wrote Northumbria: Winifred Nicholson, the Lost Kingdom with and a nephew of Paul Gething. He lives in Kate Nicholson. He is the author of several London. art monographs including Art and Life: Ben Nicholson; Winifred Nicholson; Christopher Wood; Paul Gething is lead archaeologist and director Winifred Nicholson: Liberation of Colour and at the Bamburgh Castle dig. Paul divides his Winifred Nicholson in Cumberland. archaeological time between experimental work, (smelting, blade-smithing and jewellery making Ticket Offer: buy a double ticket for Jovan techniques) and writing. He has written for Nicholson and Andrew Hill: Ruskinland History, The Great Outdoors and Time Out. He (Sunday 6th October, 2.30pm, Tullie House) lives in York. for £10.

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Sunday 6th October Monday 7th October 5.30pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 7.30pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £12 Jackie Morris Liz Grand from the Worcester The House Without Windows Repertory Theatre stars in The House Without Where is Mrs Christie? Windows was Sponsored by a million copy Carlisle City Council bestseller when it was first published Agatha Christie was in 1927, and its one of the greatest author, American thriller writers of all Photograph: Jay Armstrong child prodigy time and certainly Barbara Newhall Follett, was just 12 years the most prolific. In old. It is the irresistible and entirely unique 1926, she was at the story of one little girl’s desire to escape into centre of a mystery the wilderness, and despite being lost for as perplexing as many years, it still speaks powerfully to our any of her fiction in modern world. Jackie Morris, the co-creator a series of events of publishing sensation The Lost Words, will which sparked one talk about this lost children’s classic, and of the biggest and most extensive police hunts the stunningly beautiful ink illustrations in history. Her crashed car was discovered in which she created for this new edition. Surrey and the famous author was missing, presumed dead, for eleven days. She was Jackie Morris grew up eventually found at a luxury hotel in Harrogate. in the Vale of Evesham, She claimed then, and for the rest of the life, dreaming of becoming that she had amnesia and remembered nothing. an artist and living Neither the press nor the police believed her. by the sea. She has now created over Liz Grand is a forty children’s books, senior actress with including the bestselling the Worcester and critically acclaimed Repertory Company modern classic The and presents her Lost Words, for which new one-woman she was awarded the prestigious CILIP show Where Is Mrs Kate Greenaway Medal for children’s book Christie? Mysteriously illustration in June this year. Her books have disappearing for 11 sold more than a million copies worldwide. days in the 1920s, Jackie lives in a cottage on the cliffs of did Agatha Christie Pembrokeshire, which she shares with a lie, and if so why? small pride of cats and various other gentle Did she suffer from creatures. amnesia? Was it a publicity stunt? Or was there a darker secret Ticket offer: Buy a double ticket for Jackie involved in this disappearance which was to Morris and Jamie Normington: The Lost affect her for the rest of her life? The answer to Words (Saturday 5th October, 11.30am, all these questions will, as in all good thrillers, Carlisle Library) for £10. be revealed!

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Monday 7th October Worst Restaurant in France, 7.30pm | Vallum Art Gallery before finally introducing Free – ticketed entry you to Detective Ulf Border Mics! Open Mic Night with Varg - one of Sweden’s Lucy Burnett top investigators of unusual, complicated, Now it’s your turn to strut and insignificant crimes your literary stuff at this in the first book of a new spoken word event at series, The Department of the Vallum Gallery at the Sensitive Crimes. Brampton Road campus. Alexander McCall Smith will Register on the night - first be in conversation with come first served - for a few BBC Arts Producer, Serena minutes in the spotlight, Field. compered by local poet and novelist Katie Hale! The evening will culminate in Alexander McCall Smith a reading by Lucy Burnett, Programme Leader is one of the world’s most of Creative Writing at the University of Cumbria, prolific and best-loved from her new poetry collection Tripping Over authors. His various Clouds. series of books have been translated into forty-six Lucy Burnett has two collections of poetry languages and become published by Carcanet Press (Tripping over bestsellers throughout Clouds and Leaf Graffiti) and a hybrid novel, the world. These include the popular No. 1 Through the Weather Glass, with Knives Ladies’ Detective Agency books, the 44 Scotland Forks and Spoons Press. She currently lives Street novels; the Isabel Dalhousie novels, and in Cockermouth, where she gets out fell- the von Igelfeld series. He is also the author running as often as possible, while working as of the Corduroy Mansions series, and the new programme leader in Creative Writing at the Detective Varg series. He has also written a University of Cumbria. large number of stand-alone novels and books Tuesday 8th October for children. 7.30pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £10 An Evening with Alexander McCall Smith Ticket information Sponsored by University of Cumbria, Online at www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk Institute of the Arts In person from Bookends, 19 Castle Street, Carlisle CA3 8SY, Explore the world of 9.30am - 5pm Monday - Saturday, Alexander McCall Smith 11.30am - 4pm Sunday as he discusses the latest Please note that if tickets are posted out, there happenings with Mma will be an administrative fee of £1. Ramotswe in Botswana, By phone the return of the cast of For queries only call 07412 366152 or Edinburgh’s 44 Scotland email [email protected] Street, and his new stand- Photograph: Kirsty Anderson alone novel, The Second

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Wednesday 2nd October Saturday 5th October 10.30am - 12.30pm 10am - 1pm Carlisle Library Meeting Room | £12 Crown & Mitre Boardroom | £25 Helen Weston Adele Parks Masterclass Writing as Therapy 20 Tips for Getting That Novel Helen is a therapist and a Written – No Excuses! writer, so combines the two Writing a novel is an oft-cited disciplines in this innovative ambition of the British public workshop, which looks at but so often people simply the therapeutic power of don’t know where to start or writing out trauma alongside how to finish! This workshop the exploration of identity offers 20 sensible tips to help that creative writing affords. Photograph: realise your ambition. Bestselling The workshop will involve Sekkides novelist Adele Parks offers some intriguing writing exercises, so please encouragement and a practical guide to the bring pen and paper. elusive art, craft and graft of fiction writing. If Helen Weston has published a novel and a anyone knows how to write successful novels, memoir and has led several creative writing then Adele certainly does! workshops (one lasting three years!). Her There will be a hot drinks break at 11.30am. recent novel, It is Solved by Walking, explores Adele Parks has published eighteen bestselling the debatable lands where therapy and fiction novels in eighteen years. Award winning, meet. She has a therapy practice near Dalston. she’s sold 3.5 million copies of her work in the UK alone and is translated into twenty-six Friday 4th October languages. Her latest novel Lies, Lies, Lies, to be 10.30am – 12.30pm | Carlisle Library Meeting published in September, is set to be her next Room | £12 success. She lives in Guildford with her family. Sarah Davy Adele Parks will also be talking about her Starting a Writer’s Blog writing life at Tullie House at 4pm today Sponsored by the Saturday 5th October Phil & Lit Society 10 - 11.30am | Tullie House Community Room When you have a story to share, £12 a blog is a perfect place to start. Razwan Ul-Haq In this workshop, you’ll get to Arabic Calligraphy: Traditional grips with finding your writer’s voice, developing a writing habit Materials and Conceptual Art and the basics of setting up, Sponsored by planning and writing a blog. Architects Plus Sarah Davy is a writer from rural Learn traditional Arabic Northumberland. She leads writing groups, calligraphy techniques workshops and is Writer in Residence at Forum using bamboo and Books in Corbridge. Her flash fiction is published hand-mixed ink. See also online and in print and she is currently working how Razwan Ul-Haq has on a novel. She blogs at fused traditional methods www.writeonresidency.wordpress.com with modern art to

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celebrate the North of England through Arabic Saturday 5th October Calligraphy. All materials provided but you are 3 - 5pm | Tullie House Meeting Room | £12 welcome to bring along a sketch book! Emma Darwin Razwan Ul-Haq is an artist and author, blending Memoir, Life-Writing and English poetry and Arabic Calligraphy. He (Auto)Biographical Fiction is a widely exhibited artist whose work has been displayed in galleries and museums. His Writing about real lives commissions include Land Art for the inaugural and experiences – your Tour de France of Britain and to celebrate the own, or someone else’s – is birthday of Her Majesty the Queen. rewarding but also daunting. How do you fill the gaps? Saturday 5th October What if there’s too much 12 - 2pm | Tullie House Meeting Room | £12 information? How do you Helen Mort keep the reader reading? In this practical workshop we Where Am I? Writing Place, Photograph: JP Masclet will explore how to set about Placing Writing shaping and developing real- life material into a satisfying story. Sponsored by the University of Cumbria, Emma Darwin’s debut novel, The Mathematics of Institute of the Arts Love, was nominated for both the Commonwealth Writers’ Best First Book, and the RNA Novel of the In this creative writing Year; her memoir, This is Not a Book About Charles workshop, Helen Mort will Darwin, was published in February. She has a help you consider how PhD in Creative Writing and blogs at This Itch of place can be more than Writing. a setting in poetry and fiction. Landscapes can Saturday 5th October be characters, points of 3 - 5pm | Crown & Mitre Boardroom | £12 departure and return, Polly Atkin sources of inspiration, essential and unknown. Come prepared to Objectification: Writing the World think about where you’re from, where you Through Objects love and where you’re going. The focus of the Sponsored by workshop will be on writing poems but it will University of Cumbria, accommodate all levels of experience. Institute of the Arts has published two poetry Helen Mort This workshop asks you to collections with Chatto & Windus, Division Street bring along an object of and No Map Could Show Them. She won the personal significance, which Fenton Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection. you will use to explore how Her novel Black Car Burning was published in close observation can link 2019. She has taught creative writing for The experience and history to Open University and was a Douglas Caster things beyond you. We will Cultural Fellow at The University of Leeds. She apply the same techniques received the Andrew Waterhouse Prize at the to a natural object to Northern Writers Awards in 2018. discuss how we can write about the world around us.

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Polly Atkin lives in Grasmere. Her first full Sunday 6th October poetry collection Basic Nest Architecture (Seren: 10.30am – 3.30pm 2017) is followed by another pamphlet, With Crown & Mitre Boardroom | £35 Invisible Rain (New Walk Press: 2018). She is a David Mark Penguin Random House Write Now mentee for a Creative Writing Masterclass non-fiction book reflecting on place, belonging and living with chronic illness. In this introduction to creative writing, David Sunday 6th October will help writers at every 10.30am – 12pm stage of their careers turn Crown & Mitre Edwardian Room | £12 their killer ideas into a Luke Yates marketable manuscript. An Introduction to Emotive Whether you’re struggling Songwriting for inspiration, started a Photograph: novel and lost your way, Whether you’re an Nicola Jayne or just want to know now experienced songwriter, you’ve finished your masterpiece, David will try or a fledgling troubadour to provide the answers. - this workshop will enable you to deeply This Masterclass runs from 10.30 – 12.30 and connect with your 1.30 - 3.30 with a break for lunch in between. listeners and write more Lunch is not provided but there is a range of authentic, and more food outlets nearby. impactful songs. David Mark is a former crime journalist who You’ll experience an introduction to the began his writing career with the Cumberland techniques that hit songwriters use to create News and has become one songs that truly move an audience. This class is of the UK’s most popular and appropriate for all ability/experience levels. critically-acclaimed crime writers. His dark, gritty DS NB. There will be an opportunity for a couple McAvoy novels have been of songwriters to have a song critiqued in the bestsellers around the session - send an email to world, translated into several [email protected] with an mp3 and languages, and been adapted lyric sheet to be considered for a live critique. for the stage. Luke Yates is a multi-instrumentalist singer- Sunday 6th October songwriter, but he’s no textbook troubadour. 10.30am – 12.30pm He has spent the last 3 years working as an Tullie House Meeting Room | £12 artist mentor / business coach and empowers Andrew White songwriters and entrepreneurs to find their authentic voice through storytelling. Pitching and Writing for Magazines “Luke has many strings to his bow.. An absolutely With a title out there to cover almost every superb songwriter” - Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2 interest, writing for magazines is actually the bread and butter work for many writers. In “Immensely likeable, he had a stage presence this session, Andrew will outline his method that immediately endeared you to him” - Chris of pitching ideas to magazine editors, and Farlie, W21Music hints & tips to write the feature when you are commissioned.

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Andrew White Sunday 6th October is one of the 2.30 – 4.30pm | Tullie House Meeting Room | £12 country’s most Andrew White prolific writers and Marketing Yourself : A guide for the broadcasters on topics as varied self-published or freelance writer as walking and Today, it’s completely possible railways; astronomy to self-publish a whole range of and dogs, cycling titles and make them available and movie-making. to anyone around the world – In the last five but just how do you make the years, he has world know about them in order written over 100 to buy them? In this session, features for magazines. He regularly writes Andrew will explain the many for magazines such as BBC Countryfile, Walk, different ways to get your book out there – from Rail, Coast, Your Dog, BBC Sky At Night, Dogs radio and podcasts, blogs, interviews to social Monthly, Camping, Writing, Discover Britain, media. Outdoor Focus, Who Do You Think You Are?, Lakeland Walker, and Yorkshire Walks and Wildlife. Andrew White has a long track record of features, films and contributions in the fields of the great outdoors, railways and transport, travel, heritage, dogs, film-making, astronomy and technology. Broadcaster and journalist Andrew is in demand to tell compelling stories in whatever medium is required.

Borderlines 2019 brochure B.indd 27 22/07/2019 18:00:21 Jess Glynne Sunday 4 August • Bitts Park Fake Festival Saturday 17 August • Bitts Park Carlisle International Market Thursday 22 - Monday 26 August Carlisle city centre Carlisle Collective Fringe Festival Friday 23 - Sunday 25 August Various festival venues Sense and Sensibility open-air theatre Thursday 29 August • Talkin Tarn Carlisle Pageant Puppet Parade Saturday 7 September • Carlisle city centre

Cumbria Pride Saturday 28 September • Carlisle Castle

Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival Thursday 26 September - Tuesday 8 October Various venues

Fireshow Saturday 2 November • Bitts Park Christmas Lights Switch-On Sunday 17 November • Carlisle city centre

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How to book tickets Venues Online at www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk The Crown & Mitre Hotel 4 English Street, Carlisle, Cumbria In person from Bookends, 19 Castle Street, Carlisle CA3 8HZ CA3 8SY, 9.30am - 5pm Monday - Saturday, 01228 525491 11.30am - 4pm Sunday www.peelhotels.co.uk Jess Glynne Please note that if tickets are posted out, there will Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Sunday 4 August • Bitts Park be an administrative fee of £1. Castle Street, Carlisle, Cumbria By phone For queries only call 07412 366152 or CA3 8TP Fake Festival email [email protected] 01228 618718 Saturday 17 August • Bitts Park Event information www.tulliehouse.co.uk Carlisle Library Timings Talks last 55 minutes (unless otherwise 11 Globe Lane, Carlisle, Cumbria Carlisle International Market stated) to allow travel time in between venues, with CA3 8NX Thursday 22 - Monday 26 August an additional 20 minutes when the author will sign 01228 227312 Carlisle city centre books. Seating is unreserved and doors will open 20 www.cumbria.gov.uk/libraries minutes before an event. Cakes & Ale Café Carlisle Collective Fringe Festival Workshops are two hours unless otherwise stated. 19 Castle Street, Carlisle, Friday 23 - Sunday 25 August Refunds In the event of a talk or workshop being CA3 8SY cancelled, refunds will be offered, but no other 01228 529067 Various festival venues exchanges or refunds are available. www.bookscumbria.com The festival bookshops in the Crown and Mitre Stanwix Arts Theatre & Sense and Sensibility open-air theatre Hotel and at Tullie House are run by Bookends, the Vallum Art Gallery Thursday 29 August • Talkin Tarn Carlisle’s independent bookshop. They will stock Tarraby Lane, Carlisle, Cumbria books by those authors appearing at the festival. CA3 9AY Carlisle Pageant Puppet Parade After each talk, there will be the opportunity to 01228 400356 meet the author and have books signed. www.cumbria.ac.uk/student-life/facilities/ Saturday 7 September • Carlisle city centre stanwix-theatre/ Accessiblity Tithe Barn Cumbria Pride Most of our venues are accessible to people with West Walls, Carlisle, Cumbria Saturday 28 September • Carlisle Castle disabilities. Venues have different levels of facilities CA3 8UF – please visit individual venue websites for more 01228 810599 Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival information. www.stcuthbertscarlisle.org.uk/tithebarn/ Thursday 26 September - Tuesday 8 October Publishers Various venues Thank you to the following publishers for their support of the Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival: Fireshow Allen Lane; Birlinn; Bloomsbury; Caldew Press; Saturday 2 November • Bitts Park Canongate; Carcanet Press; Chatto and Windus; Faber; Granta; Hamish Hamilton; Handstand Press; Hodder and Stoughton; Holland House Books; Little, Christmas Lights Switch-On Brown; Indigo Dreams; Mantle; Orion; Pallas Athene; Sunday 17 November • Carlisle city centre Pan Macmillan; Penguin Random House; Philip Wilson; Polygon; Route Publishing; Saraband; Simon and Schuster; SPCK; Swarthmoor Hall Press; Verso; Borderlines 2019 discovercarlisle.co.uk Wren & Rook.

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Libraries: visit books and cumbria.gov.uk/libraries a whole lot to find out more more… We also provide… • A wide selection of titles in large print • A home delivery service for people who There’s lots to discover... have mobility problems or may have difficulty getting to their local library • Borrow books, audiobooks, eBooks, eAudiobooks, • Health information digital magazines and newspapers • Business information • Free computer use, and free Wifi • An on-going programme of events and activities for people of all ages • Computer skills sessions for beginners • Reading groups for young people and adults • 24/7 online services at cumbria.gov.uk/libraries

Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery is proud to be a Borderlines Festival Partner! Turner Northern Exposure

19 October 2019 - 5 January 2020

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Derwentwater from Friar’s Crag, 1801. Turner, Joseph Mallord William © Tate, London 2019.

Also opening 19 October REMBRANDT: Etchings from The British Museum

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English Street • Carlisle • Cumbria • CA3 8HZ Tel: 01228 525491 www.crownandmitre-hotel-carlisle.com

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