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Location: Lecture Theatre 1, University of East Anglia

Date: 7pm   15 May 2012

Ticket Price: Season ticket £42 (£36 students/concessions), individual ticket £6

 

JACKIE KAY is one of our finest and most versatile writers. She is a poet, novelist, memoirist and writer of short stories and has enjoyed great acclaim for her work for both adults and children.  Her poetry includes Fiere, shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. Her novel Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Prize and her recent memoir Red Dust Road was the Scottish Book of the Year. Her new collection of short stories is Reality, Reality.

Jackie Kay is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University.

‘… loving detail, hypnotic rhythms and unflinching realism … by turns affecting and cerebral.’ (The Guardian)
 

Read more about Jackie Kay....

Jackie Kay, British Council, Contemporary Writers

Interview with Jackie Kay about her her memoirs Red Dust Road, The Guardian, 16 August 2011

Jackie Kay talks about Fiere, BBC Radio 4, Front Row, January 2011

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