Mariam Ansar, Linda Green, Jennie Godfrey, Liz Mistry

Writing Yorkshire

Description

What better way to while away an afternoon than revelling in Yorkshire’s rich literary heritage.

This popular event makes a welcome return to the festival as we discuss the authors and stories that have taken inspiration from Yorkshire, using its backdrop, history and surrounding areas as a literary muse.

Joining us this time out are Mariam Ansar, author of Good For Nothing, set in a fictional Yorkshire town, author Jennie Godfrey whose debut The List of Suspicious Things is due out next year, bestselling novelist Linda Green, whose latest book, In Little Stars, came out last year, and Liz Mistry, author of End Game, the latest in her Detective Nikki Parekh series of gritty crime fiction police procedural stories set in Bradford.

Sit back and relax as our panellists discuss the many ways that writers have been shaped by God’s Own Country.

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In Little Stars

Linda Green

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Good for Nothing

Mariam Ansar

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End Game

Liz Mistry

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About the Authors

Mariam Ansar

Mariam Ansar

Mariam Ansar is a freelance writer and secondary school teacher. Her writing was personally selected by guest editor Kate Bush to feature in The Mays Anthology 2017/18 – a collection of the best new writing from Oxford and Cambridge. She was the first recipient of the At Sea writing residency and was also an Editorial Fellow at BuzzFeed UK. Her work – which ranges from feature writing to politics to film studies and music – has been featured in NME, gal-dem, VICE, Dazed, Catapult Story, Rookie Magazine, Teen Vogue, Elite Daily, and many others. Good For Nothing is her debut novel.

Linda Green

Linda Green

Linda Green is the bestselling author of eleven novels, which have sold more than a million copies between them. Her latest novel, One Moment, was a Radio 2 Book Club selection, and her previous novel, The Last Thing She Told Me, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and a Top 20 Sunday Times bestseller. She lives in West Yorkshire with her husband and son.

Jennie Godfrey

Jennie Godfrey

Jennie Godfrey was raised in West Yorkshire and her debut novel The List of Suspicious Things is inspired by her childhood in the 1970’s. Jennie is a former FTSE100 HR Director who after taking redundancy began to write. She is now a Creative Writing PhD student at Bristol university and lives in the Somerset countryside.

Liz Mistry

Liz Mistry

Born in Scotland, Made in Bradford sums up Liz Mistry’s life. Over thirty years ago she moved from a small village in West Lothian to Yorkshire to get her teaching degree. Once here, Liz fell in love with three things; curries, the rich cultural diversity of the city … and her Indian husband (not necessarily in this order). Now thirty years, three children, a cat and a huge extended family later, Liz uses her experiences of living and working in the inner city to flavour her writing. Her gritty crime fiction police procedural novels set in Bradford embrace the city she describes as ‘Warm, Rich and Fearless’ whilst exploring the darkness that lurks beneath.

Struggling with severe clinical depression and anxiety for a large number of years, Liz often includes mental health themes in her writing. She credits the MA in Creative Writing she took at Leeds Trinity University with helping her find a way of using her writing to navigate her ongoing mental health struggles. Being a debut novelist in her fifties was something Liz had only dreamed of and she counts herself lucky, whilst pinching herself regularly to make sure it’s all real. Liz has also completed a PhD in Creative Writing on Diverse voices in crime fiction.