A Year in Literature
2005-2006

Writers in Residence

Magdalene College is delighted to announce the appointment of three Writers in Residence during the Year in Literature Festival.

In the Michaelmas Term 2005, Tamar Yoseloff will be in residence. Tamar Yoseloff’s first full collection of poetry, Sweetheart, won the Aldeburgh Festival Prize for best collection in 1998 and was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. She received a New Writers' Award from London Arts (now Arts Council England, London) for her second collection, Barnard's Star, published by Enitharmon Press in 2004. Tamar is now working on her first novel.

In the Lent Term 2006, novelist Gregory Normington will be our resident writer. Gregory’s first novel, The Ship of Fools, was published by Sceptre in 2002 and has been translated into five languages. Arts and Wonders was published last year; it won a Writer's Award from the Arts Council of England. His third novel, Ghost Portrait, will be published in May 2005. Although fiction is Gregory Normington’s main occupation, he has also written plays for stage, screen and radio. His short film, Pedestrian, was winner of the special jury prize at the BAFTA Fuji Film Scholarship, and he has dramatised E M Forster’s The Machine Stops for BBC Radio .

Michael Bywater will join us for the Easter Term 2006. A columnist for the Independent on Sunday, Michael's most recent book, Lost Worlds: what have we lost and where did it go? was published by Granta Books last year. A broadcaster and reviewer, Michael Bywater is (quite literally) a wide-ranging writer: his account of a solo flight circumnavigating the Australian outback will be published shortly by Hutchinson.

Our writers in residence will offer workshops to members of the College and University, and they will also be central to our outreach programme. Schools and colleges both locally and further afield, are very welcome to contact us for details of our writing days here in Magdalene. Our writers in residence have also indicated that they would welcome invitations to visit schools and Colleges during their term in residence. Please contact the Access Secretary via the litfest address: litfest@magd.cam.ac.uk