Write Out!

Write Out!: Sponsored by Pearson plc and in celebration of International Womens Month Precious Online Magazine and Network brings together some of the most exciting and innovative female voices in UK publishing.

Featuring Gemma Weekes and Caroline Bell Foster and chaired by the prolific Bernardine Evaristo, this is an opportunity to hear how Gemma and Caroline rose from the spark of an idea to getting published. Both authors will also read extracts of their work.

Well also hear from a publisher who will reveal the process of getting your book from manuscript to print.

All this and a chance to network over a glass of wine and some nibbles.

Places are limited, and booking is essential here: http://writeout.eventbrite.com

Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristos books include Hello Mum, a short Quick Reads novel about teenage knife crime aimed at adult and teenage readers (Penguin March 2010); Lara, a verse novel about her family history (Bloodaxe 2009); Blonde Roots, a novel in which Africans enslave Europeans (Penguin 2008) Soul Tourists (Penguin 2005) and The Emperors Babe, about a black girl growing up in Roman London (Penguin 2001).

She has taught creative writing worldwide and been on over 70 international writers tours. She has won several awards, is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, and received an MBE for services to literature in 2009. www.bevaristo.wordpress.com

Gemma Weekes

Gemma Weekes is a poet, singer and all-round scribbler whos debut novel, Love Me (Chatto & Windus, January 2009) has been greeted with rave reviews in the Guardian (a delight), the Telegraph (hits you where you feel it most) and the Independent (a wonderfully assured debut). Shes performed and devised pieces for venues all over the UK and abroad: including The Jazz Caf, the Southbank Centre, Birmingham Rep, Stratford East Theatre, New Jersey Performing Arts Centre and in various television and radio appearances in Saint Lucia for Nobel Laureate Week. She also collaborated with Nitin Sawhney on a piece for BBC Radio 3s The Verb and has appeared in several anthologies and journals. She is working on her second novel.

Caroline Bell Foster

Caroline Bell Foster was born in England and at the age of 12 was taken on a six week holiday to Jamaica which lasted 18 years.

After leaving High School, Caroline lived in Canada and Kenya before returning to Jamaica and enrolling at The University of the West Indies to hone her writing skills.

In 2004 her first novel Ladies Jamaican was released. Caribbean Whispers followed in 2009 and Saffrons Choice is scheduled for an October 2010 UK release.

Caroline has a huge Caribbean and North American fan base and since returning to England is gaining in popularity across Europe.

The author is married and has two children.

Write Out! at Pearson Plc in London, Greater London on Thursday, 25 March 2010.

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