Join us at Urmston Library for an author panel event and discussion with Audience Q&A.

Join us for an author panel discussion at Urmston Library on Thursday September 17th . Authors Marnie Riches, Ian Seed and Karl Whitney will be discussing the topic 'The Best Advice I Received as a Writer'. There will be an audience Q&A with the authors at the end.

Authors included:

Ian Seed is a poet and translator. His books include Forgetfulness (Shearsman, 2026), New York Hotel (Shearsman, 2018), which was a TLS Book of the Year, The Dice Cup (Wakefield US, 2023), from the French of Max Jacob, and Bitter Grass (Shearsman, 2016), from the Italian of Gëzim Hajdari.

Karl Whitney is the author of Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin and Hit Factories: A Journey Through the Industrial Cities of British Pop – both Guardian books of the week. He has worked as an editor at Penguin Classics and as an RLF Fellow at universities in the UK

Marnie Riches

Since 2015 publication of her award-winning debut, The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die, Marnie Riches has become a bestselling contributor to the crime fiction genre, selling hundreds of thousands of books internationally. She also writes historical romance as Maggie Campbell and teaches for the Royal Literary Fund. Her latest novel is gardening-themed cosy mystery, Pushing Up the Daisies.

FREE TO ATTEND

We look forward to seeing you there. If you are unable to attend please cancel your ticket via eventbrite or get in touch with libraries. These are popular events and we would like to make sure everyone gets to attend.

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