James Scudamore is the author of the novels English Monsters, Wreaking, Heliopolis and The Amnesia Clinic. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award and been nominated for the Costa First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Man Booker Prize.
His journalism and short fiction have appeared in 1843 Magazine, Condé Nast Traveller, Prospect, The Sunday Times Magazine, Time Out and Tin House.
He has taught creative writing at the University of East Anglia and the City University of Hong Kong, and is currently on the faculty of the International MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
'James Scudamore is now a force in the English novel’ — Hilary Mantel
'Scudamore has a writing style that constantly amazes’ — Anthony Horowitz
'People who say there aren’t any brilliant literary novels about contemporary England anymore have obviously never read this’ — Irvine Welsh
Timetable
3.30-5pm Arrival of participants.
5.30-6pm: Welcome drink and tour of the house and gardens.
6.30pm The first writing workshop of the week. James will introduce himself and outline his plans for the week. You will be able to explain what you’d like to achieve. There’ll be discussion, short exercises, and perhaps a spot of homework for Tuesday morning.
8.30pm: Dinner
