Rachel Hewitt, Jay Griffiths, Stephen Gregory

New Welsh Reader 134 (eBook, ePUB)

Skate Fever

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Female-led European literature with a focus on place in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction, diversity in poetry and panache in photography and visuals. Illustrations by Margiad Evans/Peggy Whistler and Kreg Yingst. This edition celebrates female pioneers, freedom and nature's own laws. In a two-part special on Margiad Evans, we appraise her artwork (including previously unseen drawings and illustrations) and her contribution to nature writing and environmental philosophy. A three-part feature on winter sport comprises prose by Jerwood awardwinning author Rachel Hewitt presenting the St Moritz milieu of author, sports photographer and pioneering Victorian mountaineer Lizzie Le Blond; the UK's first curated collection of Le Blond's breathtaking photography itself, and a paean to skating, past and present, cultural and physical, by Jay Griffiths, winner of the Orion and the Barnes & Noble Discover awards. Plus ghost stories by former Hollywood scriptwriter Stephen Gregory, and the international Rubery Book Awardwinner, JL George

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Welsh Review
• Seitenzahl: 129
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781913830250
• Artikelnr.: 69358915

Autorenporträt

Rachel Hewitt is a writer and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her first book, the best-selling MAP OF A NATION: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ORDNANCE SURVEY (2010), won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction. She was awarded a Gladstone's Library Political Writing Residency for her second book, A REVOLUTION OF FEELING: THE DECADE THAT FORGED THE MODERN MIND (2017). Rachel is Director of the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts and received the prestigious work-in-progress prize, the Eccles British Library Writer's Award, for IN HER NATURE: HOW WOMEN ARE BREAKING BOUNDARIES IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS (2023). She loves trail-running and was 1st Female in the Punk Panther Ultra Series in 2020 and 3rd Female in the Hardmoors Marathon Series in 2019. Her longest run to date was the Punk Panther Dales Way Challenge (c83 miles) in August 2021. She lives in Yorkshire.