Jun 24-29
The Hurst
Residential Writing Week: Starting To Write Poetry & Fiction
Telling stories in poetry and prose
Cecilia Knapp
Romesh Gunesekera
Guest: Jane Sanderson
Jane Sanderson
Jane Sanderson studied English at Leicester University, then after graduating she became a journalist. After a series of jobs with local newspapers she joined the BBC where she worked as a producer for Radio 4, first on the World at One, and then on Woman’s Hour. Jane’s first novel, Netherwood, following the fortunes of a mining community and its ‘big house’ in the early twentieth century, was published by Sphere in 2011. Two further books in the series followed: Ravenscliffe and Eden Falls, followed by a contemporary novel, This Much is True, published by Orion.
In 2020 she published Mix Tape with Transworld, and in the summer of 2022, she published her latest book, Waiting for Sunshine.