We don’t always need to tell – sometimes retelling is better. A few writers out there have suggested that in a green world the new is always made from fragments of what went before. It is the way the retelling goes that makes it new. Have all the words we ever need already been said?
On Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 February 2010 Academi will hold their annual literary conference at Gellifawr Hotel and Cottages in Pembrokeshire’s beautiful Gwaun Valley.
New Narratives will explore some of the ways Wales is currently using literature to reinterpret, to refashion and to retell. Should we ever be done with our greatest legends? Damian Walford Davies thinks not as he tracks back through the Mabinogion. Niall Griffiths and Malcolm Pryce retread their way through Aberystwyth. If you think you knew that place then think again. Joe Dunthorne turns fiction into film while Tom Anderson hunts for that place where the fact of travel becomes the fiction of the mind.
Spend a long weekend with Academi at an engaging and comfortable retreat in the lost Gwaun Valley of the slow far west. The older ways may indeed be nearer the surface here but see how our new writers can make them spin.
Tickets cost just £100 per person or £90 per person for Academi Members and Associates, based on two people sharing a twin or double room. A limited number of single room occupancy tickets are available priced at £120 per person. Ticket price includes entrance to all events plus one night’s accommodation, lunch and three course evening meal on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday.
For those who do not require accommodation at Gellifawr a number of Non-Residential Tickets are available priced at £50 or £45 for Academi Members and Associates.
To book your tickets over the phone contact Academi on: 029 2047 2266. Payments can be made by credit / debit card or by cheque. There are only a limited number of residential places still available so book now to avoid disappointment.
For more information visit: www.academi.org/newnarratives/ Or contact Academi on: 029 2047 2266 / [email protected]
