Writing Workshop: Finding Joy in Writing: Tame the Madwoman, Silence the Judge
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Sat 15 Mar ’2514:00Persephone Bookshop, BA1 2EE
Yvonne Jewkes is author of An Architecture of Hope: Reimagining the Prison, Restoring a House, Rebuilding Myself (Scribe, 2024), described by Kit de Waal as ‘Beautifully written, honest, and clever…a book we should all read’, while Joanna Nadin said ‘Life writing at its finest.’
Andy West is author of The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Philosophy (Picador, 2022), an Irish Times and The i book of the year. Geoff Dyer described it as ‘Tense and intimate…an education’, while Sir Lenny Henry said ‘Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending. A wonder’.
Andy and Yvonne are Writers-in-Residence at HMP Grendon, and teach creative writing retreats with Freedom to Write.