File BA3/1 - Festivals, readings and workshops

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BA3/1

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Festivals, readings and workshops

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  • 2003-2011 (Creation)

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Papers relating to festivals, readings and workshops attended by Gwyneth Lewis, in most cases as a contributor, including correspondence between her and event organisers and participants, notes and annotated manuscript and typescript drafts relating to talks and workshops given by her, a transcript of an interview between 'CB' and [Javier Marias], and other material relating to aspects of literary events such as copies and printouts of work and interviews by other writers, promotional leaflets, press releases, and information about speakers, schedules, accommodation, travel, legal and financial matters, and the organising bodies; the festivals, readings and workshops featured include the Trialogue Conference, the International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine and Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, a Welsh Literature Abroad translation workshop in Brussels, a Poetry Live workshop, the Radcliffe Institute MA in Creative Writing, a poetry masterclass at Monmouth Women’s Festival, the Durham Book Festival, a visit to Durham University Centre for Medical Humanities, the Royal Society of Literature, the University of Warwick Medical School, Llenyddiaeth Cymru, the Hay Festival of Literature and Arts, ‘Poets Encounter Medicine’ (Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science, University of Glamorgan), ‘Poems for the waiting room’ (sponsored by the Arts Council of England, the Department of Health and other organisations), the John Rylands University Library Poetry Reading, Kingston University, the Centre for Medical Humanities, Ledbury Poetry Festival, the Centre for Women’s Writing and Literary Culture (Aberystwyth University), the National Library of Wales, ‘Worlds 2011: Influence’ (Writers’ Centre Norwich), and others.

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  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • Welsh

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English, Welsh, French and Italian

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Ephemera relating to festivals, readings and workshops are in BC4/2.

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  • Text: Gwyneth Lewis Papers BA3/1 (Box 16)