{"id":334,"date":"2015-06-17T08:27:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T08:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/?p=334"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:41","slug":"two-upcoming-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/2015\/06\/17\/two-upcoming-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Two upcoming festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-335\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2015\/06\/Leicester-Writes-300x295.gif\" alt=\"Leicester Writes\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the next couple of weeks, I (<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/departments\/english\/people\/dr-jonathan-taylor\">Jonathan Taylor<\/a>) am taking part in two Literary Festivals, both of which are open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday 20 June, 12-1pm, I&#8217;ll be chairing a session at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/other\/The-Tablet-Literary-Festival\">Tablet Literary Festival<\/a>\u00a0in Birmingham. The panel, which is entitled &#8220;The Spirit and the Story,&#8221; will include well-known\u00a0and award-winning novelist, editor and short-story writer,\u00a0Jacob Ross, and\u00a0poet, journalist and short-story promoter,\u00a0Cathy Galvin &#8211; as well as myself. We will be talking about the intersections of faith, religion and fiction. You can see more details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/other\/The-Tablet-Literary-Festival\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday 27 June, 11.15-12.15pm, I&#8217;ll be taking part in a panel at the new <a href=\"http:\/\/leicesterwrites.co.uk\/\">Leicester Writes Festival<\/a>, run by writer and publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transculturalwriting.com\/Grassroutes\/content\/Farhana_Shaikh.htm\">Farhana Shaikh<\/a>. The panel, which is entitled &#8220;Write Your Novel and Get Published,&#8221; will include myself, novelist and short-story writer Will Buckingham, novelist and short-story writer Alison Moore, and writer and publisher Tom Chalmers. We will be discussing aspects of novel-writing, publishing and promotion\u00a0and also answering questions about the processes involved. You can see more details <a href=\"http:\/\/leicesterwrites.co.uk\/calendar-items\/write-your-novel-and-get-published\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks! Jonathan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next couple of weeks, I (Jonathan Taylor) am taking part in two Literary Festivals, both of which are open to the public. On Saturday 20 June, 12-1pm, I&#8217;ll be chairing a session at the Tablet Literary Festival\u00a0in Birmingham. The panel, which is entitled &#8220;The Spirit and the Story,&#8221; will include well-known\u00a0and award-winning novelist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}