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Rosie Garland is a novelist, poet and singer with post-punk band The March Violets. Join us for a evening of conversation about her writing and work. Everybody is welcome to attend, this event is free by registration via Eventbrite is preferable.

Tagged ‘literary hero’ by The Skinny, Rosie Garland is a novelist, poet and singer with post-punk band The March Violets. With a passion for language nurtured by public libraries, her writing has appeared in New Welsh Reader, The North, Rialto, Butcher’s Dog, Bangalore Review, Mslexia, Envoi, etc. Sshe’s received writing commissions from Brontë Parsonage Museum, Tate Modern and Women’s Words Manchester as well as nominations for the Pushcart and Forward Prizes. Her latest poetry collection, As In Judy, is published by Flapjack Press.

Rosie's Debut novel, The Palace of Curiosities, was nominated for both The Desmond Elliott and the Polari First Book Prize and Vixen was a Green Carnation Prize nominee. Her latest novel The Night Brother (Borough Press) was reviewed in The Times as "A rich and ambitious tale with shades of Angela Carter... Garland's prose is a delight: playful and exuberant.”

http://www.rosiegarland.com/

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This event is a collaboration between the department of English Literature and Creative Writing and The Ruskin.