News and Events
Current Events
2023
Dec 4-9 - From First Ideas to Finished Fiction: tutoring writers at Totleigh Barton in Devon for the Arvon Foundation. With Adam Foulds.
Nov 12 - BBC Radio 4 ‘Pick of the Week’ - comments on War and Photography, and war photography’s struggle to have impact, just after Don McCullin, at minute 7.45.
Nov 7 - BBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking: Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion - panel conversation about art, photography, war and memory, with Janna Al-Ani, Charlie Calder-Potts, Toby Haggith and presenter Anne McElvoy.
June 26 - July 9 - PEN Catalá residency in Barcelona with Suzane Ibrahim, a Syrian poet from Sweden.
May 15-20 - Going the Distance. Tutoring novelists at Lumb Bank for the Arvon Foundation. With Toby Litt.
Jan 9-23 - Winter residency, Cove Park, Scotland.
Previous Events
2022
Nov 28-Dec 3 - Starting to Write: A Way into Writing. Tutoring new writers of fiction and poetry at Lumb Bank for the Arvon Foundation, with Clare Shaw
June 16 - Presentation and reading for the June Salon, Maison Dora Maar, Ménerbes, France
June 1-30 - Writing fellow, Maison Dora Maar residence, Ménerbes, France
April - Judging panel for the inaugural ‘Volcano Prize’, awarded to a novel that engages with the experience of travel away from home.
April 11-16 – Writing a Novel: Fanning the Flame. Tutoring writers of fiction for the Arvon Foundation, Totleigh Barton, UK, with Romesh Gunesekera
Flight runs at The Studio theatre in Washington, from 16 Dec. 2021 till 20 February 2022
2021
Nov. 20 – Finisterre is shortlisted for the 2021 Eyelands Awards (unpublished novels)
May - July – Starting your novel: Course designer and tutor, London’s CityLit
May 17 – Flight reopens at The Bridge Theatre in London, in a co-production with The Barbican. Season extended by popular demand
April 23 - British Council Spain, Facebook live event to celebrate World Book Day (in Spanish)
2020
Dec 6 – Flight opens at The Bridge theatre, London – before being closed by the covid lockdown
Nov 26 - The Memory Stones is shortlisted for the 2020 Eyelands novel awards
Jan 17 – Flight opens at the Tempe Arts Center, Arizona, as part of ASU Gammage's Beyond festival
2019
Sept 10 – In Conversation with Piia Mustamaki: Hinterland's double adaptation, in Storytelling for a Jaded World NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, NYUAD Campus Conference Centre
Sept 12-21 – Flight makes its Middle Eastern debut at The Black Box theatre, The Arts Centre, NYU Abu Dhabi
May 4-22 – Flight returns to the UK, running throughout the Brighton Festival
Jan – Granta publishes ‘Nostalgia in Blue’ - a collaboration with the photographer Viviana Peretti
2018
Oct 14 – Platform interview with ABC radio's Jacinta Parsons about Hinterland's journey from novel to the stage. Melbourne Arts Centre, Australia
Oct 10 – Interview with ABC Melbourne's Richelle Hunt, on what happens when someone calls you about adapting your novel
Oct 9 – Drawing Room - ABC Radio National interview with Patricia Karvelas on turning Hinterland into Flight
Oct 5-21 – Flight continues its international tour in Australia, showing at the Melbourne International Arts Festival
July 20-29 – Flight travels to the Galway International Arts Festival in Ireland
13 June 2018 – "Meet the Authors" - Caroline Brothers and Oliver Cable return to Word on the Water, the London book barge, for an evening of readings and jazz
Feb 2018 – Flight, the theatrical adaptation of Hinterland by Vox Motus, opens at the McKittrick Hotel, New York; extended twice
21 Feb 2018 – Kaleidoscope of Conflict - Bush House, London. Discussion of images of conflict and fiction at King's Centre for Strategic Communications
2017
21 Nov 2017 - Bloomsbury Institute, Platform interview on fiction, politics, history, referencing Hinterland and The Memory Stones
End-Aug, 2017 - Flight, the stage adaptation of Hinterland by Glasgow theatre company Vox Motus, wins a Herald Angel award.
24 Aug 2017 – Edinburgh Book Festival, discussing adaptation of Hinterland for the stage. From Page to Performance. With Oliver Emanuel
24 Aug 2017 – Edinburgh Book Festival: The Memory Stones, in Dirty Wars and Drug Gangs. In discussion with Marcus Sedgwick
24 Aug 2017 – The Memory Stones published in paperback
4 Aug 2017 – Flight, Vox Motus’s adaptation of Hinterland, premieres at the Edinburgh International Festival
1 June 2017 – Melbourne launch of The Memory Stones, at Beaumaris Books, Australia
31 May 2017 – 'Milestones with Caroline Brothers,' & James Dryburgh. Tasmania Writers Centre, Hobart
26 May 2017 – 'Caroline Brothers: The Memory Stones' at the Sydney Writers' Festival
26 May 2017 – 'Foreign Correspondents: Anecdotes from Abroad', Sydney Writers Festival
26 May 2017 – 'In Conversation' with Radio National's Richard Fidler, about The Memory Stones
25 May 2017 – 'The Writer's Habitat', round table discussion at the Sydney Writers' Festival
21 May 2017 - 'Hallelujah for Leonard Cohen', Auckland Writers' Festival
20 May 2017 – 'The Memory Stones: Caroline Brothers.' With Dan Salmon at the Auckland Writers' Festival
19 May 2017 – 'Taking Refuge': Readings at the Auckland Writers' Festival, with Andrew Johnston, Christine O'Brien
5 April 2017 - Live interview with Kathryn Ryan, Radio New Zealand, ‘Nine to Noon’
14 March - 14 April 2017 – Literature fellow, Bogliasco Foundation, Italy
4-5 Feb 2017 - One-hour presentation of The Memory Stones at Spring Hearth, Gladstone's Library, Wales
2016
2016 – Hinterland published in Czech
8 Dec 2016 - Guest speaker, 'Gliterary lunch', Edinburgh
22 Nov 2016 - Presentation of The Memory Stones, The American Library, Paris
8 Nov 2016 - Presentation of The Memory Stones, University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain
15 Oct 2016 - ArchWay With Words literary festival, London
4 Oct 2016 - Off the Shelf Festival of Words, Sheffield
Oct 2016 – US publication of The Memory Stones
Sept 2016 – Hinterland published in Dutch by De Arbeiderspers
16 Aug 2016 – Avid Reader bookstore, Brisbane, reading and signing The Memory Stones
18 July 2016 – Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 2 Book Club interview, 1'09" into the show
18 July 2016 – BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour interview, 2nd guest on programme
18 July 2016 – The Memory Stones launched at Word on the Water, the London book barge
July/Aug 2016 - The Memory Stones published in UK/Australia
24 June 2016 - Caxton Books and Gallery, Frinton-on-Sea, UK, discussing Hinterland and The Memory Stones
21 June 2016 - Conference speaker, Engaging Refugee Narratives: perspectives from Academia and the Arts - UCL, London
April 2016 – New edition of Hinterland published in Australia
Jan 2016 – Hinterland goes into a second edition
2015
Niemandsland second edition published by Berlin Verlag
2014
Hinterland published in Dutch as Achterland by Arbeiderspers, translated by the writer Pauline Slot
Hinterland published in Czech as Na útěku by Mladá Fronta, translated by Helena Hartlová
2013
September – Hinterland published in Italian as I Fratelli di Kabul, by Newton Compton
July – Hinterland wins a McKitterick Prize, presented by the poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy
May – Hinterland is published in paperback in German as Niemandsland, by Piper Verlag, translated by Monika Schmalz
January – Hinterland is published in paperback
2012
April – Hinterland is published in the USA
24 March – Oxford Literary Festival, UK
21 March – UK Refugee Council, London
12 March – Shakespeare & Co. bookshop, Paris, France
10 March – Hinterland is published by Berlin Verlag in German as Niemandsland
2 February – Hinterland is published in the UK
2011
5 August – Beaumaris Books and the Malt Café, Melbourne, Australia
4 August – Readings Bookshop, Melbourne, Australia
4 August - Lunchtime Lecture, The Wheeler Centre
3 August – Macleay’s Bookshop launch, Sydney, Australia
2 August - Books and Nooks event, Sydney, Australia
1 August - Salon event, Avid Reader, Brisbane, Australia
2010
Susan Meiselas: In History wins the Rencontres d’Arles Historical Book Award, le Prix du livre historique