7FEST - The Foundation (Afternoon Session) June 4, 2008

7FEST - The Foundation (Afternoon Session) w/ Niall O'Sullivan, Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Malika Booker et al
Date – Wednesday 4 June 2008
Venue – The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London (Covent Garden tube)
Time – 12.00pm - 5.00pm
Entry – FREE

The Afternoon Session: For 5 hours from 12 noon to 5pm, flipped eye publishing, to mark their 7th anniversary, will have sofa sessions (details below) - small intimate readings in the basement of the Poetry Cafe - where the authors will sit in sofas reading to a small circle of listeners.

12.00-12.40: NEW FICTION
Aoife Mannix reads from her forthcoming novel, Heritage of Secrets, and fiction editor, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, reads from Ainsley Burrows' forthcoming novel, Land of our Birth.

13.00-13.40: REDIRECTION
Roger Robinson, Nick Makoha and Inua Ellams read from their forthcoming work and talk about the differences in the processes of drafting, compiling, editing as compared to their phenomenally successful first collections.

14.00-14.40: WRITING OBSESSIONS
Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Aoife Mannix and Malika Booker talk about what their current writing obsessions are embracing a gamut of objects, other books, poetic forms, prose arcs, new approaches to metaphor, and weird sleeping habits - all sorts of things that somehow relate to their writing.

15.00-15.40: QUESTION THE EDITORS
Niall O'Sullivan and Nii Ayikwei Parkes will talk about the experience of editing and in-house editing experiences, mainly by taking questions from the audience.

16.00 - BOOK SIGNING: Authors in attendance will include Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Malika Booker and Niall O'Sullivan

Official Website: http://www.flippedeye.net/news/blog/2008/05/7fest-foundation.html