Mahsuda Snaith's South West literary tour to visit Bristol Central Library next week

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, the tour is organised by South Western Regional Library Services CIO (SWRLS) in partnership with South West literature development agency, Literature Works.

Twenty libraries across the region, embracing public, university, college, school and NHS hospital libraries are coming together to form a unique touring network to host a proliferation of novelists, poets, playwrights and spoken word artists drawn from different backgrounds and cultures, both resident in the South West and new to the area.

Each writer is invited to facilitate one or more creative workshops – reading groups or writing classes - followed by a live ‘In Conversation’ evening event.  Each library has chosen the audience it most wants to reach, ranging from refugees and new arrivals, to young adults, to LGBTQ+, to neuro-divergent members of the local community as well as a broad and general public.  Most tour events are being held live, in person, at each library with many also available for simultaneous online broadcast and accessible to all.

Author Mahsuda Snaith is set to visit Bristol Central Library to deliver two creative writing workshops followed by an evening In conversation event which will be both in person and streamed. Mahsuda is the author of 'The Things We Thought We Knew' (Black Swan, 2017) and 'How to Find Home', chosen as a BBC Radio 4 'Book at Bedtime'.  She is a winner of the Bristol Short Story Prize and the SI Leeds Prize and has led creative writing workshops in universities, hospitals, schools and a homeless hostel.

Following this event, we will be welcoming Noreen Masud to University of West England University on 12 October to discuss ‘A Flat Place.' 

Phil Gibby, Arts Council England, South West, Area Director, commented ‘As the national development agency for culture and creativity, we strive to ensure that every person has access to the remarkable creativity and culture on their doorsteps. This collaboration between South Western Regional Library Services and regularly funded organisation, Literature Works, helps us to achieve that mission.’