We are excited to launch our new Readers’ Series to allow authors and readers to connect via bespoke online events.
With the lockdowns last year, closed bookshops and huge disruption in the book trade, our 2020 and 2021 books and other recent backlist titles have had a hard time reaching the wonderful readers who authors would normally connect with at live events and festivals. This is your chance to help us correct this in return for great evenings and a superb set of books into the bargain.
Each event will come with 3 lovely books delivered in advance and at a discount with the live event as a free extra, so you can begin reading and come to the event full of questions. Or you can join for free and just enjoy the discussions.
You can subscribe for the whole series or choose just the fiction or just the poetry events for maximum discount or scroll down to opt in to indvidual events.
And if you would like to join in the conversation but already have the books or would like to buy selected books later you can register for the events for free and we’ll give you a discount code for the books at the event. Just scroll down to the individual event to register.
Enjoy the remaining poetry and 2 fiction (9 books) plus 3 live events for £80
or choose the fiction series with 6 books & 2 events for £55
or join the last poetry event with 3 books and 1 event for £22
or opt-in to individual events below:
(or register to simply join the conversation for free without the book offers)
The poetry of art — but do we need pictures?
This event has already taken place, but you can catch up with the video on the blog.
Biography: are we making it up?
This event has already taken place, but you can catch up with the video on the blog.
Eco-poetry — rally cry or eulogy?
This event has already taken place, but you can catch up with the video on the blog.
But is it poetry? — writing poetry without lines
Thursday 14 July 2022, 7.30 p.m. UK time
At Cinnamon we love genres that slip between categories and challenge expectations. Prose poetry is a constantly contested area of writing and also one that is rich with possibilities for both narrative and lyricism. Join accomplished prose poets, Jan Fortune (Stale Bread & Miracles), Maria Jastrzębska (The True Story of Cowboy Hat and Ingénue), Jane Monson (The Shared Surface, This Line is Not for Turning and forthcoming: The Chalk Butterfly) to chew over definitions and ambiguities and to hear some fine examples of the form.
Or register free for this event and come along to join the conversation.
Come into my world — the lives of others in novels
Thursday 1 September 2022, 7.30 p.m. UK time
Novelists create whole worlds, sometimes ‘realistic’, sometimes fantastical, but always taking us into the lives of others. Join Mark Godfrey (The River Reflects), Omar Sabbagh (Via Negativa), and Carole Strachan (The Truth in Masquerade, A Song of Thyme and Willow) to explore how characters and their concerns suggest themselves to writers and the worlds that evolve around these characters. Listen to extracts and join the discussion.
Or register free for this event and come along to join the conversation.
Tell me a story
Thursday 1 December 2022, 7.30 p.m., UK time
Being read to is one of the most wonderful parts of childhood and increasingly adults are realising how solacing and important it is to hear stories as well as immersing in them through books. Gather round our virtual fire for winter tales and lively discussion of the short-story form with two of Cinnamon’s finest short story writers, Adam Craig (High City Walk & Marietta Merz) and Isabelle Llasera (Smog)
Or register free for this event and come along to join the conversation.