The 2nd Chichester Writing Festival

The Deadline for this Event has Passed

The second Chichester Writing Festival* is a comprehensive programme of panel discussions and AN AUDIENCE WITH …events with best-selling authors, editors, agents and booksellers, taking place over a single weekend in the extraordinary landscape of West Dean College - www.westdean.org.uk - near Chichester in the Sussex Downs.

(Use this link to see a local map showing the location of West Dean College. For more information on booking and accommodation, please call 0844 4994408 from the UK or +44 1243 811301 from abroad.)

The Festival runs from lunchtime on Friday 9 November to teatime on Sunday 11 November 2007. It is open to a maximum of 40 Residential Participants who will attend every event, including the four major headline events, which are also open to the public in West Dean College's beautifully refurbished Sussex Barn.

Festival co-director Kate Mosse will chair the four AN AUDIENCE WITH events:

- Marian Keyes, the brilliant, best-selling, darkly-comic Irish author of Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday and Anybody Out There? (Friday night)

- Sarah Waters, an exceptional author of extraordinary range, displayed in four superb novels - Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch (Saturday night)

- Joanne Harris, another author of startling variety, empathy and confidence - Chocolat, Gentlemen and Players, her lovely cookbook The French Kitchen and the new best-seller The Lollipop Shoes (Sunday morning)

- Jacqueline Wilson, author of the Tracy Beaker books, the wonderful Girls series (in Love, under Pressure, out Late and in Tears), as well as many other beautifully judged, realistic children's novels and an autobiography, Jacky Daydream, written for 9-11 year olds (Sunday afternoon)

Greg Mosse, Festival co-director, will chair a wide range of panel discussions:

- WHAT AGENTS AND EDITORS WANT
- LOCAL LANDSCAPES
- THE 10-MINUTE PLOT
- SELLING BOOKS
- RELIGION, CULTURE & MORALITY
- BEAUTIFUL BOOKS
- CRIME & THRILLERS
- FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD
- LIFE WRITING

Panel members will include, in alphabetical order:

- author, journalist and TV and film producer Paul Arnott (A Good Likeness, Let Me Eat Cake)
- author, journalist and writing teacher Tim Bouquet (Cold Steel)
- author Joanna Briscoe (Mothers and Other Lovers, Skin and Sleep With Me)
- author William Brodrick (The Sixth Lamentation. The Gardens of the Dead)
- publisher Jocasta Hamilton (Hodder Headline)
- author Tom Cain (The Accident Man)
- photographer Amanda D'Arcy
- author Anne Donovan (Buddha Da, Hieroglyphics)
- book conservator David Dorning
- international literary scout Catherine Eccles (A L Fisher)
- travel writer Sylvie Franquet (Greek Islands, Essential Egypt)
- author and travel writer Jason Goodwin (The Janissary Tree, The Snake Stone, On Foot to the Golden Horn)
- biographer and academic Rachel Holmes (Scanty Particulars, The Hottentot Venus)
- artist and publisher Ron King (Circle Press)
- author Hari Kunzru (The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions)
- agent Mark Lucas (Lucas Alexander Whitley)
- online bookseller Kes Nielsen (Amazon)
- publisher Maria Rejt (Pan Macmillan)
- publisher Mark Rusher (Orion)
- author and journalist Anthony Sattin (The Pharaoh's Shadow, The Gates of Africa, Shooting the Breeze)
- author Kamila Shamsie (In the City by the Sea, Salt and Saffron, Kartography, Broken Verses)
- poet and co-founder of the Literary Consultancy Rebecca Swift

Use this link to see a local map showing the location of West Dean College. For more information on booking and accommodation, please call 0844 4994408 from the UK or +44 1243 811301 from abroad.

It will be fascinating!

* Of course, there may be unforseen changes to this programme and we reserve the right to amend it at any time.