Category Archives: Our Speakers for 2012
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Some images from 2012
Photos: courtesy Derek Webb
Today’s the Day!
Time for kick-off! PENfro 2012 starts today, with pre-booked Workshop sessions in the morning and afternoon, and with public sessions from 5 pm onwards – a birthday party for Honno at 5 pm, a family discussion with Christine Harrison at … Continue reading
The Antique Books Roadshow
An innovation this year, thanks to our friend Jeff Towns, is an “Antique Books Roadshow” set up on a special table in the Oak Hall. At intervals during the Book Fair in the Oak Hall, Jeff will be available to … Continue reading
2012 Speakers (23): Francesca Rhydderch
Francesca Rhydderch is a freelance writer and literary editor based in Aberystwyth. After taking her first degree at Cambridge University in Modern Languages she was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Wales Aberystwyth for her comparative study on the … Continue reading
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2012 Speakers (22): Daniel Williams
Daniel G. Williams was born in Aberystwyth and studied at Harvard and Cambridge Universities. He is now Lecturer in English and Assistant Director of CREW at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is particularly interested in the ways in which national and ethnic … Continue reading
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2012 Speakers (21): Samantha Wynne Rhydderch
Samantha grew up in New Quay, Ceredigion where she still lives. She read Classics at Cambridge followed by an M.A. in Writing at Cardiff University. She lived in Oxford, Paris and the Isles of Scilly before returning to New Quay. … Continue reading
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PENfro 2012 — the Sunday programme
This is the programme of events organized by the Committee for this year, on Sunday September 16th 2012. last year we tried to fit in too many events, which meant that some were going on in parallel, to the great … Continue reading
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Festival Fringe update
There are two more offers for the Festival Fringe: Jo Hammond and Mags Redfern — title to be confirmed Steve Thorp — Where are we going? Wild words and colours for a new world This brings our total up to … Continue reading
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2012 Speakers (20): Jasmine Donahaye
Jasmine Donahaye is author of the critical monograph Whose People? Wales, Israel, Palestine (UWP, 2012), and two poetry collections, Self-portrait as Ruth (Salt, 2009), which was longlisted for Wales Book of the Year, and Misappropriations (Parthian, 2006), which was short-listed … Continue reading
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