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AUD Indelible Festival of Literature March 14th- March 31st American University in Dubai Our forthcoming (and first ever) AUD Indelible Festival of Literature will be a public Zoom event hosting world renown poets, novelists, literary agents, and writing stylists who will be sharing their work and ideas with an audience from around the world. WEEK 1 Tuesday, March 23, 6:00 PM Sunday, March 14: 6:00 PM Juliet Bates (bestselling novelist, France) Ruth Padel, RSL, ZSL (Poet, novelist, non-fiction writer, UK) Pictures of Home What Songs Do You Sing? From a Lifetime of Making Music to Poems about Beethoven Juliet Bates will discuss notions of home and belonging in her new novel The Colours, published by Fleet (Little Brown UK) in 2020. The award-winning UK poet (and Charles Darwin’s great-great granddaughter) Ruth Padel has always loved singing. But she has also quietly played the viola, Bio: Juliet Bates was born in the north-east of England. After studying too. Her latest poetry collection, Beethoven Variations, begins with her art and art history, she lectured in the UK and is currently teaching at the parents getting together playing music and follows her collections Emerald, Ecole Supérieure d’arts et Médias de Caen/Cherbourg in France. In 2017 mourning and celebrating her mother, Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth she completed a PhD in creative writing at the University of Manchester. about the divisions but also the music of the Middle East, and Tidings – A Her debut novel, The Missing, was published by Linen Press in 2009, Christmas Journey, a narrative sequence inspired by Europe’s most ancient and her short stories have appeared in British and Canadian journals and musical form, the carol. She reads poems and talks about writing the life of one magazines. Her second novel, The Colours, was published by Fleet in of the world’s greatest creators and composers spring 2020. Registration Link Bio: Ruth Padel is an award-winning British poet and author. She began life as a classicist studying ancient Greek, and has spent much of her life in Greece, especially Crete. She is a passionate wildlife conservationist and also a musician. She now lives in London and has published twelve poetry collections, seven non-fiction works and a novel. Ruth is a Fellow of both the Wednesday, March 24, 6:00 PM Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London, and Professor Fiona Sampson (poet, MBE, UK) of Poetry at King’s College London where she hosts a popular series of Poetry Elizabeth Barrett Browning: the making of a pioneering poet And Events, combining poetry with other areas of life and learning. In July, she will publish her second novel, Daughters of the Labyrinth, set on Crete The internationally acclaimed poet and writer Fiona Sampson introduces and reads from Two-Way Mirror, her new biography of one of Britain’s Registration Link leading writers. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote one of the most famous lyric poems in the English tradition, ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’. A world famous writer, at a time in the nineteenth century when few women dared even publish under their own name, Barrett Browning Monday, March 15: 6:00 PM was a committed campaigner for Italian independence and the abolition of Maria Donovan (published novelist, UK) slavery, and against child labour - and she managed all this despite living Writing in Real Time with chronic illness and disability. Hers is the fascinating story of a woman becoming an artist through sheer determination, and her pioneering, Maria Donovan talks about her debut novel, The Chicken Soup Murder, and modernising poetry charts it all. her attempt to write it in real time. This coming-of-age novel, which follows one boy’s obsessive search for justice and looks at the effects of loss and Bio: Fiona Sampson is a leading British poet and writer, published in bereavement on three households living side by side in a small Dorset town, thirty-eight languages, who has received international awards in the US, is set in 2012 against a backdrop of real events in the UK and beyond. What India, Macedonia, Albania and Bosnia. A Fellow of the Royal Society made the author choose this approach? How did it work out? Would she of Literature, of the English Association and of the Wordsworth Trust, do it again? This one-hour session will feature short readings and time for she’s published twenty-seven books and received an MBE for Services to additional Questions and Answers. Literature. She has served on the Council of the Royal Society of Literature and is a Trustee of the Royal Literary Fund. Other honours include Bio: Maria Donovan is a British author writing short fiction and novels as the Newdigate Prize, Cholmondeley Prize, Hawthornden Fellowship, well as factual content related to research interests in people, history, place, and awards from the Arts Councils of England and of Wales, Society of medicine and science, writing craft and the publishing process. Maria’s writing Authors, Poetry Book Society and the Arts and Humanities Research is informed by her experiences as a nurse, traveler, musician and performer Council, as well as various Book of the Year selections. She’s also a and as a university lecturer (how did that happen?) as well as insights into broadcaster and newspaper critic, librettist and literary translator, and was the human condition from her own slightly strange perspective. Maria is also editor of Poetry Review 2005-12. Her internationally acclaimed In Search author of the novel The Chicken Soup Murder, which was a finalist for the of Mary Shelley was shortlisted for the Biographers Club Slightly Foxed Dundee International Book Prize. Prize. She recently received two major European prizes, the 2019 Naim Frashëri Laureateship of Albania and Macedonia, and the 2020 European Registration Link Lyric Atlas Prize, Bosnia. Two Way Mirror, her biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, appears in 2021. She is Emeritus Professor of Poetry, Roehampton University. Registration Link Tuesday, March 16, 6:00 PM Leslie Gardner (literary agent, Artellus Ltd., UK) Practical Writing: What Makes a Good Novel? Literary agent and founder of Artellus Ltd. Literary agency scholar Dr. Leslie Thursday, March 25, 6:00 PM Gardner will discuss the “practical” aspect of novel writing for success. Peter Salmon (novelist, UK) Writers in general and novelists specifically may wonder: how to go about Who was Jacques Derrida? making a success of your work and how to get it published? What skills are required? Is that more practical than you want? Dr. Gardner will share her Who was Jacques Derrida, and why does he have such a towering, and experience and advice in answering these questions. foreboding reputation across modern philosophy, thought by some to be Bio: Leslie Gardner, PhD, founded Artellus Ltd in 1986 after extensive a genius, others a charlatan? His biographer Peter Salmon goes back to work at American publishing houses, and a British entertainment agency Derrida himself, from his childhood in Algiers to his miracle year of 1967 representing writers internationally at www.artellusltd.co.uk. A graduate which saw the birth of deconstruction, to his late turn to ethics and the of the University of Essex’s Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic politics of friendship. This will be fascinating and accessible exploration Studies, she is presently a Fellow in the department. She was co-convenor of of a thinker who continues to exert a huge influence on modern thinking ‘Feminism(s) and Technology’ and other feminism and classicist conferences, from philosophy to religion, from gender studies to literature. and author of ‘Rhetorical Investigations: G B Vico and C G Jung’ (Routledge 2014) and an upcoming book on ghostwriting, also with Routledge. She has Bio: Peter Salmon is an Australian writer living in the UK. His biography also published numerous papers in books and peer-reviewed journals and of Jacques Derrida, An Event Perhaps, was published by Verso on 13th edited books of collected papers. October 2020. He is a regular contributor to the New Humanist, and has been published in the Sydney Review of Books, the Guardian, the Registration Link Tablet, Cordite and Versopolis. His first novel, The Coffee Story (Sceptre, 2011), was a New Statesman Book of the Year. He has written frequently for Australian TV and radio and for broadsheets including the Guardian and the Sydney Review of Books. The Blue News, his satirical column Wednesday, March 17, 6:00 PM about books and publishing, was subsequently collected and published by Roula-Maria Dib, poetry discussion (UAE) Melbourne University Press as Uncorrected Proof (2005). He has received Simply Being: Poetry and the Pandemic Writer’s Awards from the Arts Council of England and the Arts Council of Victoria, Australia. Formerly Centre Director of the John Osborne/The Roula-Maria Dib will discuss the role of poetry during the pandemic and the Hurst Arvon Centre (2006-2012), he also teaches creative writing, most notion of verbal alchemy as per her book, Jungian Metaphor in Modernist recently at Pembroke College, Cambridge and Liverpool John Moores Literature (Routledge, 2020). The author will also read and discuss the University. techniques and stories behind some of her poems in Simply Being, her recently Registration Link published poetry collection (Chiron, 2021). Bio: Roula-Maria Dib (PhD, Leeds) is an assistant professor of English at the American University in Dubai, and editor-in-chief of Indelible, the university’s literary journal. A creative writer and scholar in the fields of literature and WEEK 3 Jungian psychology, her poems, essays, and articles have appeared in several journals.