May 6-11
The Hurst
Residential Writing Week: Starting To Write Fiction
A way into writing
Rachel Seiffert
Toby Litt
Guest: Lucy Jago
Rachel Seiffert
Rachel Seiffert has published four novels and a collection of short stories. Her books have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Dublin IMPAC Award, and longlisted three times for the Women’s Prize for Fiction; her most recent novel A Boy in Winter (2017) was a New York Times ’Notable Book’ and a Times ‘Book of the Year’. In 2011 she received the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has taught Creative Writing at Birkbeck, Goldsmiths, Spalding College in the US, and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Rachel also works with First Story as Writer in Residence in London secondary schools.