Come and join me at the wonderful Galle Literary Festival. I’ll be doing events a poetry event for the first time, with Tishani Doshi, and sessions with Sebastian Faulks and Shehan Karunatilaka.
Gratiaen Workshop: Finding the Story
We had ten writers who had been on the Gratiaen prize lists come together for a one day fiction workshop in Colombo. A great day.
Hong Kong on Sunday 8 November
Join me at the Hong Kong Lit Fest.
On-line Event
Join me on Thursday 20 August evening at 7pm for an event hosted on-line by North Harrow Community Library. Free tickets at Eventbrite.
FreeThinking BBC Radio 3
Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera are Fellows of the Royal Literature Society who signed the Register on the same day. In the first of a series of conversations with writers who would have been sharing a stage at a literary festival, they talk to Shahidha Bari.
King's Lynn Fiction Festival 2020
Remembering the last wonderful festival before lock-down.
Lahore Literary Festival
Wonderful to be back in Lahore, February 2020!
MBIFL'20
The amazing lit fest in Kerala in January 2020. So good to meet old friends and new, and ex-students from workshops writing and publishing.
Colombo Launch of Suncatcher
Come to my Colombo launch of Suncatcher. Go to British Council Colombo for details.
