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This was the first residential weekend to be hosted by the Charles Causley Trust at the beautiful Trevadlock Manor in the heart of the Cornish countryside near Launceston: if you’d like to register your interest in future writing events being offered there by the Trust, you are invited to contact them on: info@causleytrust.org
You only meet one or two people in your life that can transform your life, thoughts, hopes & dreams. This weekend Tanya Shadrick & Sophie Pierce did that for me and three fellow aspiring authors. Thank you.
Trudy Rayment
Fantastic weekend immersed in writing practice & creativity with Sophie Pierce and Tanya Shadrick – two women I’ve long admired. Was wonderful to meet other emerging writers & support each other’s book projects. Stunning location thanks to Causley Trust.
Ella Foote
Wonderful weekend talking memoir with Tanya Shadrick & Sophie Pierce. We laughed, cried, walked the fields around Trevadlock Manor, swam, and ate together as our stories began to take shape. A rare privilege.
Ruth Peverick
Three writers discussed their books in which women encountered death and re-evaluated the bodies in which they live. Mortimer’s semi-autobiographical tour de force Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies charts a daughter’s relationship with her dying mother. In The Cure for Sleep Shadrick swears to begin living life to the full after narrowly escaping death following childbirth and in One Body, Simpson luminously embraces body positivity after cancer.
One of the best book festival events I’ve attended…You can never predict when a conversation between writers will catch fire, but this one emphatically did
David Robinson, The Scotsman
Watch (again): How To Be You/The Cure For Sleep: Dr Skye Cleary and Tanya Shadrick in Conversation
A passionate and wide-ranging conversation about authenticity to celebrate the UK launch of Skye Cleary fascinating new book How To Be You: Simone de Beauvoir and the Art of Authentic Living (Ebury).
It was a real joy to welcome Melissa Febos and Tanya Shadrick on Pages of Hackney Instagram Live for a brilliant discussion of the art of memoir, the challenges of corporeal writing, and navel-gazing as an act of resistance. Thank you so, so much to Melissa and Tanya as well as all of you that joined us live. Watch (again) now.
The Telegraph: ‘What a near-death experience taught me about living’, Mar 2022
Online Launch for The Cure for Sleep: Tanya in Conversation with Kathryn Aalto
Listen to the recording of Tanya in conversation with Kathyrn Aalto, answering questions submitted in real-time by the online audience.
In conversation for Love The Words podcast, July 2021
Tanya talks to poet and presenter Peter Spafford about her forthcoming memoir The Cure For Sleep (W&N: 2022) and its themes of late-waking, renewal and becoming open to surprising connections.
Ilkley Literature Festival 2021, Saturday 27 March, 12.30
Natasha Carthew & Tanya Shadrick: Reclaiming the Wild. Join acclaimed nature writers Natasha Carthew and Tanya Shadrick in this free event as they discuss what it means to be working-class nature writers in their respective fields of fiction and non-fiction. Together, they highlight the importance of authentic voices, give readings from their latest works and discuss the barriers working-class writers face when entering the world of publishing. In this event, Carthew launches this year’s Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers and Shadrick gives her first reading from The Cure For Sleep (W&N: Feb 2022).
Pre-recorded event. Run time 54 mins approx. This event is captioned. Presented in partnership with the University of Leeds.
Birds of Firle an essay for Little Toller/The Clearing, January 2021
The story of a single wordless book of rooks, and the first year of its decade-long journey to reach 100 collaborators. Inviting responses on ‘grief or hope as the things with feathers’, Birds of Firle is an experiment in slow art and communal/cumulative creativity, initiated by Tanya for her small publisher imprint The Selkie Press.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson pre-empts ‘breathtaking’ memoir (December 2019)
Editorial director Lettice Franklin acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in The Cure for Sleep from Robert Caskie at Caskie Mushens. It will be published as hardback, trade paperback, e-book and audiobook in spring 2022
Wild Woman Swimming longlisted for Wainwright Prize (June 2019)
The Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize celebrates the best books about nature, the outdoors and UK travel.
Celebrating its sixth year, the prize is awarded annually to the book which most successfully reflects the ethos of renowned nature writer Alfred Wainwright’s work, to inspire readers to explore the outdoors and to nurture a respect for the natural world.
You can read a sample chapter from Lynne Roper’s posthumously-published Wild Woman Swimming: A Journal of West Country Waters, edited and published by Tanya Shadrick through The Selkie Press, on the Wainwright Prize site.
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