Date: Saturday 22nd February*

Time: 5pm - 7pm

Tickets: £12 (book online)

Join two award winning authors in conversation as part of the Words in Watchet Festival. Ticket price includes a two course meal of mezze starters with dips and flatbreads, and chickpea and vegetable harissa stew with herb cous cous and salad.

Tessa Hadley has published eight novels - including The Past, Late in the Day, and Free Love - and four collections of short stories. She has short stories published regularly in the New Yorker, and reviews for the Guardian and the London Review of Books; she was awarded a Windham Campbell prize for Fiction and the Hawthornden Prize in 2016, and the Edge Hill Prize in 2018.

Fiona Williams is a fiction writer and the author of the debut novel The House of Broken Bricks, which was the winner of the 2021 Bridport Prize, Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel Award and published in the UK by Faber in January 2024. She holds an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. Her writing focuses primarily on rurality and the relationships between identity, belonging, nature and landscape.

Tickets available at: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/words-in-watchet

*The date in our What’s On leaflets was incorrect, this event is on Saturday 22nd February (not Friday 21st)