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Tag: Sara Collins

The Dinner Party Reloaded 2: The Authors

2nd September 202022nd December 2020  Susanna Crossman

In the second of her self-conceived series, The Dinner Party Reloaded, a virtual dinner party with selected artists and writers, Susanna Crossman meets acclaimed authors Haleh Agar, Sara Collins and Irenosen Okojie to discuss their work, their love for fiction, anime, the poetry of Derek Walcott, Han Kang and Kei Miller, and much more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, InterviewsTagged: David Constantine, Haleh Agar, Han Kang, Irenosen Okojie, Jordan Peele, Nikesh Shukla, Sara Collins, Shirley Jackson, Susanna Crossman, The Dinner Party, The Dinner Party Reloaded, Toni Morrison

Interview with Sara Collins, acclaimed author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton – ‘Novels start with questions, identifying the space the book is going to fill, and Frannie was my way of trying to fill that gap’

25th June 201929th January 2020  My Ly

The Prize-winning and Oprah Magazine ‘Inspired Women’ author Sara Collins talks to our arts contributor, My Ly, about her stunning debut novel, the uniting power of anger for women, the importance of setting and her routine as a writer.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, France Langton, Francis Barber, Jamaica, Jane Eyre, Joyce Carol Oates, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Michael Bundock, Samuel Johnson, Sara Collins, Slavery and the British Empire, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, University of Cambridge, Wuthering heights

The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins – a stunning, atmospheric debut

8th April 201922nd April 2019  My Ly

After several years in London, Jamaican servant Frannie Langton finds herself on trial for the murder of her English master and mistress – but she has no memory of that fatal evening. Our arts contributor, My Ly, reviews Sara Collins’ atmospheric and evocative debut novel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Britain and Colonialism, Cambridge, Creative Writing, Frannie Langton, Gothic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Neo-Victorian, Nineteenth-Century Britain, Novel, Penguin, Sara Collins, Slavery and the British Empire, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Viking

Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize Festival: Advice on How to Get Published

8th February 20198th February 2019  Lucy Writers

Florence Hazrat gives us the highlights of this year’s Fiction Prize Festival and offers invaluable advice to budding writers on how to get published.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Lucy Features, ResourcesTagged: Frances Perkins, Gillian Stern, Jackie Ashley, Katy Loftus, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, Laura Marshall, Lesley Sanderson, Little Brown, Lucy Cavendish College, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize festival, Lucy Malagoni, Nelle Andrew, Penguin, Peters Fraser and Dunlop, Publishing, Sara Collins, Viking, Virago

The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize Festival

14th January 201928th January 2019  Lucy Writers

Our editor-in-chief, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, looks ahead to some of the highlights of the first ever Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize Festival, taking place this Saturday.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Lucy FeaturesTagged: Cambridge, Frances Maynard, Jane Eyre, Jo Browning-wroe, Kay Loftus, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, Lesley Sanderson, Literature, Little Brown, Lucy Cavendish College, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize festival, Lucy Malagoni, Miranda Doyle, Nelle Andrew, Sara Collins, Sophie Hannah, Sphere, Swan Song, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Virago
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