East Anglian Writers

East Anglian Writers at Cafe Writers

Five members of East Anglian Writers read from their work on 14th November 2005 at Cafe Writers. For more details about Cafe Writers please visit www.cafewriters.org.uk.

Anthony Vivis has been a freelance translator (mainly of contemporary German drama) since 1983, including a play starring Simon Callow in the West End in 2003. He lives in Norwich and chaired EAW from 1998-2004. He read (in English) from his translation of Gerlind Reinshagen's Twelve Nights (The Post-Apollo Press 2005)

Sarah Passingham has published four books of non-fiction, won the Julia Fitzgerald Award for short fiction 1995, and written the libretto for the oratorio Julian - Mystical Revelations released on CD 2002, and premiered in Norwich Cathedral, November 2005. She is currently working on fiction and a memoir. She read The Engineer's Daughter, a short story published in The London Magazine.

Geraldine Evans writes mainly crime novels. Her eleventh novel, and the eighth in her humorous Rafferty & Llewellyn crime series, Love Lies Bleeding, came out towards the end of August. Her website is: www.geraldineevans.com. She lives in North Walsham with her husband George. She read from Love Lies Bleeding (Severn House Publishers 2005).

Wendy Mulford is an internationally known poet and translator. In 2003 she performed at the Montreal International Poetry Translation Festival. This year at the Cork International she performed The Unmaking, a combination of poetry and music based on archive material about the Highland Clearances. She read from her poetry (published and unpublished) as well as an extract from Virtuous Magic: Women Saints and their Meanings (with Sara Maitland) (Cassell 1998)

Sarah Bower works as a writer and teacher of creative writing at UEA. She has published many short stories and articles in a variety of publications, including Spiked and MsLexia. She read from her debut novel, The Needle in the Blood, a novel set against the background of the making of the Bayeux Tapestry. She is currently working on a second novel, set in the Renaissance.

Benjamin Scott, Chairman of East Anglian Writers, introducing the group and its members. To find out more about East Anglian Writers, please e-mail him at  Chair@eastanglianwriters.org.uk.