Huddersfield Authors’ Circle launches its latest book with readings and a Q&A. 

Huddersfield Authors’ Circle, a group for local writers formed to support each other, share their work and find new inspiration, is turning 90 this year. The Circle have put together a collection of short works to commemorate this occasion.

Over the years, HAC members have included playwrights, poets, novelists, journalists and both fiction and non-fiction writers. Many of these were well-known, such as HAC’s first president, James R Gregson, a writer and actor known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre, Sing As We Go! and The Way of an Angel, and Hazel Wheeler, author of First of the Summer Wine, Half a Pound of Tuppenny Rice: Life in a Yorkshire Village Shop (Reminiscence) and others.

The latest generation of HAC writers—including Nick Stead (the Hybrid series), Vivien Teasdale (Struggle and Suffrage in Huddersfield) and Susie Field (A Moment in Time)—will be sharing this proud history, as well as prose and poetry from their latest book, 90: An Anniversary Compilation. A short Q&A will follow. You’re cordially invited to an evening of local literary celebration.

 

Date: Sunday 18 May 

Time: 2pm-4pm 

Location: Tipi, Courtyard, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Queen Street, Huddersfield HD1 2SP 

Free (no booking required) 

Age guidance: All ages (U16s should be accompanied by an adult) 

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