We are so pleased to welcome Jay Hulme to Litfest—not only for Schools’ Day on Friday, the Celebration of Poetry event on Saturday, and 'Clouds Cannot Cover Us' on Sunday evening, but also for this workshop on the Sunday morning, which is all about writing and performing poetry.
Places on this workshop are limited to 15, so book in good time!
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Jay Hulme is an award-winning transgender performance poet, speaker and educator whose collection, 'Clouds Cannot Cover Us,' was nominated for the 2021 Carnegie Medal.
As well as writing and performing, Jay teaches in schools, performs sensitivity reads and consults and speaks on the importance of diversity in the media, particularly transgender inclusion and rights. In 2017 he gave a TED talk and was featured in Nationwide Building Society’s “Voices” advertising campaign. Jay has worked with, among others, Amnesty International, The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, Stop Funding Hate, and The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards. He is currently Poet-In-Residence at “The Poet’s Church”, St. Giles-in-the-Fields in central London.
In 2015, when she was just 23 years old, Elise Downing announced that she was going to attempt to run 5000 miles around the coast of Great Britain, carrying her kit on her back – which came as quite a surprise to everyone, including herself! Somehow she managed the feat, helped along the way by hundreds of complete strangers and overcoming obstacles varying from one of the wettest winters on record, to endless self-doubt, to an almost debilitating fear of cows.
Elise will share the highs and lows of her 10 month adventure, with her trademark honesty and humour, and talk about how she translated her experience into words in her book, Coasting – described in a review by Travel Writing World as “an inspiration” and listed by The Times as one of the best sports books of 2021.
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