Jul 25-Aug 1
Totleigh Barton
Residential Arvon Plus: Fiction
Inspiration, support, and time to write
Ben Pester
Kaiya Shang
Guest: Karolina Sutton
Kaiya Shang
Kaiya Shang is Senior Commissioning Editor at Chatto & Windus acquiring a range of books across literary fiction, literary-commercial crossover fiction and non-fiction (memoir, history, politics, social justice, cultural criticism). Authors she publishes include Emma Cline, Lauren Elkin, Xiaolu Guo, Warsan Shire and Claire Lynch. She is interested in both character-driven and ideas-led writing, and is especially drawn to the formally or narratively dexterous, the subversive and to a sentence, in the words of Baldwin, ‘as clean as a bone’.