The Camellia House & Other Stories: Anthology Launch
The Camellia House & Other Stories:
A creative writing anthology launch reading at Wentworth Woodhouse
Saturday 26th Oct | 1.30 to 3pm | Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham
Tickets: Entry included in ticket price, click here for booking.
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In celebration of the newly refurbished Camellia House tearoom situated in the gardens of Wentworth Woodhouse’s captivating Grade II* listed mansion, join emerging young writers from the Hive network for the launch of an anthology of poetry and writing inspired by Wentworth’s families, gardens and histories. Among many other fascinating insights, learn about the significance of pineapples and tea for South Yorkshire’s most renowned aristocratic dynasty. Hosted by contributing Hive writer Beth Davies (announcement to follow!)
The book will be available to buy on the day. (Please bring cash as we may not have a card machine.)
The Camellia House & Other Stories offers us a beautiful and varied collection of hymns to the past, as emerging writers celebrate and sing the history of Wentworth Woodhouse. Here you will find exotic animal interactions and religious visions, the voices of aristocrats, servants and disgruntled vegetables, the sound of giggles which carry across history. This wonderful collection creates a place in which the writers of tomorrow and the people of history can meet, through the magic of language, in the most fantastic, shared now.”
Jonathan Edwards: Poet & Fiction Writer
‘This superb book’s heart beats with the transcendent power of creative responses to history. Each piece here could be a freshly painted room in the great Wentworth House, and each piece could also be a well-lit space in the huge and evolving edifice that is new writing. Read this book. Relish it and feel inspired. Then, of course, write something of your own…” Ian McMillan, Poet & Presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Verb
Funded & supported by The Heritage Lottery, Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust, Hive South Yorkshire & Off the Shelf Festival of Words
Contributing writers:
- Alastair Smith
- Anzal Adhan
- Becca Drake
- Beth Davies
- Charlie Jolley
- Charlotte Murray
- Dillon Butt
- Ellen Uttley
- Emily Charlton
- Erik Ruder
- Fae Horsley
- Freya Bantiff
- Helen Angell
- Helen Mort
- Holly Thorpe
- Ian McMillan
- Isabelle Pollard
- Jade Beachell
- Jenalla Waddington
- Jess Lentz
- Katherine Henderson
- Lauren Hollingsworth Smith
- Louisa Rhodes
- Lucy Nadin
- Luke Worthy
- Lydia Allison
- Maia Brown
- Merila Gramy
- Milly Boden
- Nik Perring
- Rebecca Payne
- Rebecca Smith
- Sam Parry
- Vicky Morris
- Warda Yassin
