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Torfaen Open Mic Christmas Event

Tuesday 8 December 2009, 7.30 pm
At Panteg House, Griffithstown
Entry Fee: £3.00

Torfaen Open Mic will host an evening of poetry on Tuesday 8 December at Panteg House, Griffithstown, with guest reader Susan Richardson. Open Mic slots are available.

Susan Richardson is a poet, travel writer, playwright and freelance tutor of creative writing. She was born in Newport, Monmouthshire and studied/lived/worked in London, the USA, Canada and Australia before returning to her native Wales. Her collection of poetry, Creatures of the Intertidal Zone, is published by Cinnamon Press and she has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Acumen, Poetry Wales, Orbis and Other Poetry. As a travel writer, she contributes to such publications as Transitions Abroad, International Living and The New Book of Knowledge. She has read her work at festivals and venues throughout the country, including the Hay Festival, the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, the National Assembly and BBC Radio Wales. Susan won a Classic FM Woman of Tomorrow award for her writing and educational work and has also received both a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship and a Churchill Memorial Travel Fellowship. For more information on Susan and her publications click here or visit: www.susanrichardsonwriter.co.uk

For further details contact Meg Gurney on:
mrsm.gurney@sky.com / 01495 753629

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