Live’n’Local: Introducing Maggie Harris

maggie harris

The lovely Maggie will be joining us on Sunday afternoon (11/10) to share some of her evocative and fascinating stories and poems.

Maggie  was born in Guyana and has lived in Kent and Wales. A poet and a prose writer, she won the Guyana Prize for Literature 2000, and was the 2014 Regional Winner of The Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

She has performed her work across the UK and in the Caribbean, has represented Kent in Europe, and posts include International Teaching Fellow, Southampton University. Her latest collection of poetry is Sixty Years of Loving, (Cane Arrow Press) and In Margate by Lunchtime, short fiction, (Cultured Llama Press).

Twitter: @kaieteurfalls
Website: www.maggieharris.co.uk

A detailed programme for the festival will be posted in due course.

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