SARA UPSTONE

UK-based writers present new works in tribute to international colleagues, supported by English PEN’s Writers at Risk programme. English PEN campaigns to defend writers and readers in the UK and around the world whose human right to freedom of expression is at risk. This event is curated by poet and artist Steven J Fowler and English PEN’s Cat Lucas. It features UK-based authors speaking on behalf of fellow-writers from around the world whose freedom has been compromised – and who have often had to endure significant danger and hardship. Date: June 15 2019 https://greenwichbookfest.com/event/english-pen-writers-at-risk/ www.theenemiesproject.com/englishpen

POEM BRUT : MARCH TUESDAY 5TH 2019 : MUSEUM OF FUTURES An extraordinary evening with new performances by poet and artists - Poem Brut is an exploration of artistic creative writing - poetry and colour, handwriting, composition, abstraction, scribbling, illustration - a project that aims to engage and energise poets, writers, artists, readers and listeners. Poem Brut affirms the possibilities of liveness for the poet too, and this event will feature new performances made by poets working in the literary and experimental traditions that might explore the possibilities of writing made before an audience. https://www.writerscentrekingston.com/poembrut2019/

Memento Mori : on Mortality November Tuesday 19th 2019 at Museum of Futures A themed literary happening on remembering our mortality, and the benefits of death remembrance. https://www.writerscentrekingston.com/mementomori This event resented speakers from a multitude of backgrounds and disciplines, from the staff of Kingston University to local writers and visiting speakers. Their responses to the theme will be positively various and can include new readings of fiction and poetry alongside experimental or theatrical performance, speeches, talks, recitals and everything in between, excluding academic lectures.

WRITERS’ CENTRE KINGSTON PRESENTED A LITERARY EVENT ABOUT LIVING on OCTOBER THURSDAY 19TH 2017 : / DORICH HOUSE, KINGSTON WITH GUEST SPEAKER TOM MCCARTHY ALONGSIDE STELLA BOTTAI AND SARA UPSTONE About the event : The theme for this event was Living. Each of the three speakers responded as they wished, drawing from their remarkable collective experience in the world of contemporary fiction, art and criticism, with a new piece of literature or an informal talk, an academic lecture or a performance. They might shape a previous work to the theme or create brand new fiction, non-fiction, theatre or poetry. Their choice of medium is as creatively free as their choice of message.