Hidden Gems: on the literary circuit
Four authors, all part of the writing collective Just Write Bristol have been busy running our popular ‘Hidden Gems’ event for literature festivals during lockdown.
The panel session, in which we each share the three most amazing things uncovered while researching our novels, is something I developed because it is the kind of event I enjoy the most at festivals – where you learn something new.
So far we have brought the event to the Bristol Festival of Literature, Weston-super-Mare Literary festival, the Stay at Home Festival, Evesham Festival of Words, Blandford Literary Festival, Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival, as well as providing a Lunchtime Lecture at Bristol Central Library.
We delve into the secrets of famous Italian artists, the birth of photography, the Spanish civil war, Shakespeare’s undoing, St George and the Dragon, the mysterious ‘red gene’… and some astonishing quantum physics. So please get in touch if you are a festival organiser and would like something colourful for the programme.
