Book Reading / Discussion
Book Reading & Talk, with Jane
I’m a writer, researcher and story-teller who uses oral history methods to record the lives of marginalised women. My published work includes Now You See Me: lesbian life stories, and Free to Be Me: stories from the Lesbian Immigration Support Group.But I am also, in collaboration with Jacky Bratton, half […]
But How Can I Cry When The Streets Are Ablaze With Flowers?
Come and join this newly published, highly talented and gifted writer Stina Vogt from Norway as she introduces her newly published book: But How Can I Cry When The Streets Are Ablaze With Flowers? Stina will discuss the themes (Mothers, daughters, grief, plants, memories), the genre, the writing process and […]
Listening to Lesbian Stories with Jane
For the last decade or so, Jane Traies has been collecting lesbian life stories. Some of them appear in Now You See Me, a collection of tales told by lesbians born between 1920 and 1950; and in her second collection, Free to Be Me, featuring the lives of lesbian refugees […]
Writing lesbians back into history with Jane
Jane Traies and Jacky Bratton write together as Jay Taverner, and have now published four successful lesbian historical novels in the ‘Brynsquilver’ series. The latest, Liberty, is their most ambitious story yet. Set at the time of the French Revolution, it takes its two heroines on an epic journey across […]
