Story Radio Writers' Salon at the Colony Room Green

MAYFAIR, U.K. - Nov. 7, 2024 - PRLog -- Story Radio Podcast hosts a second Writers' Salon, an evening of storytelling, at the Colony Room Green, a bar for art lovers.

Six authors will be reading from recent work, on the theme 'Food'.

Lana Citron is a prize-winning author and scriptwriter with twenty years' professional writing experience. She has published five novels, two non-fiction books and numerous short stories, plays, poems, film scripts, articles and book reviews.

Lindsay Gillespie, from South Wales, now resides in the South Downs. She has lived in New Delhi, Washington DC, France, and Tokyo, where she taught English. A Costa 2021 Short Story Award finalist, she was also a finalist for the 2022 Bridport Short Story Prize, with stories shortlisted in Fiction Factory, Exeter, and Oxford Flash Fiction.

Dr Stuart Gillespie has four decades of experience in nutrition and development since his first position as nutrition coordinator in a rural development project in southern India in the early 80s. His book Food Fight tells the tale of how the food system we once relied upon for global nutrition has warped into the very thing making us sick. It will be published by Canongate in 2025.

Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist and art critic. She has published five collections of poetry, Everything Begins with the Skin (Enitharmon), Ghost Station and The Forgetting and Remembering of Air (Salt), Swimming to Albania (Salmon Poetry) and Radium Dreams (Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge) in collaboration with the artist Eileen Cooper RA, and a series of poems, God's Little Artist (Seren).

Her novels include: Depth of Field, (Dewi Lewis), Girl in White (Cinnamon and Pushkin Press), Rainsongs, (Duckworth, Overlook Press US, Mercure de France and Yilin Press, China) and Flatlands (Pushkin Press and Mercure de France). Rothko's Red, her collection of short stories, was published by Salt. She is currently working on a fifth novel.

Martin Nathan's short fiction and poetry have appeared in various journals. His novel A Place of Safety is published by Salt Publishing. His dramatic writing has been shortlisted for the Nick Darke Award and the Woodward International Prize.

Tabitha Potts is a short story writer recognised with an Honourable Mention in the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize and third place in the Olga Sinclair Prize. Her debut novel The House of Dust and Shadows will be published by Rowan Prose Publishing in 2026.

Date: November 11th, 2024
Location: Colony Room Green, 4 Heddon Street, Mayfair W1B 4BS
Time: 7.30pm
Tickets:  Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1059790976339
Website: https://www.storyradio.org