Please see below for:

● A reminder of next Monday’s RSL event with Lynne Truss and Richard Williams.
● Details of our forthcoming event at King’s College London with Dannie Abse.
● Booking information for our masterclass series.
● News of other forthcoming literary events which might be of interest to you.

Monday 12 October 7pm
Lynne Truss
How Sport Took Over My Life
Chaired by Richard Williams

Lynne Truss was a successful but impecunious ex-journalist when, in 2002, it was suggested to her that she write a book on punctuation. Without a moment’s hesitation, she said that it didn’t sound like much of an idea. Luckily, she was talked into it, and Eats, Shoots & Leaves (2003) became a global bestseller, establishing her as one of our most popular comic writers. With the publication of Get Her Off the Pitch! this autumn, she focuses on the world of sport, drawing on four years’ experience as an unlikely and ill-equipped sports columnist for The Times. In a talk chaired by Richard Williams, the Guardian’s chief sports writer and author of a number of books about Formula One, as well as biographies of Bob Dylan, Miles Davis and Phil Spector, she discusses whether sport is important, why people think it’s important, why it has to be so unpleasant in the press box at Coventry City, and how men’s brains have, amazingly, evolved to remember the scores of all the football matches ever played.

Tuesday 20 October, 7pm
Dannie Abse: Poet in a White Coat

Chairs: Anne Chisholm, The Royal Society of Literature (Chair of Council), Rick Trainor (Principal, King’s College London), and Mark Turner, King’s College London (Head of Department of English).

The English Department and the Royal Society of Literature are delighted to host Dannie Abse: Poet in a White Coat, the first in a series of co-sponsored literary events celebrating creative intersections between the Arts and the Academy. With the publication of New Selected Poems (2009), Dannie Abse, poet, playwright, novelist and doctor, celebrates the 60th year since the publication of his first collection of poems, After Every Green Thing. Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, King’s Fellow, and President of the Welsh Academy of Letters, Dannie
Abse trained as a GP at King’s College London, combining his medical practice with an award-winning career as a writer.

This event will take place in the Great Hall, King’s College London, Strand Campus. The lecture starts at 7pm with doors open from 6pm.

Wordplay: Saturday Master classes

You should all now have received information on our forthcoming masterclasses. We are delighted to announce that one of our masterclass tutors, Hilary Mantel, has won the Man Booker Prize.

14th November 2009
Mimi Khalvati: Poetry

9th January 2010
Hilary Mantel: History into Fiction

13th March 2010
Caroline Moorehead: Biography

Tickets are £30 each, with limited concessions available at £15. Tickets for Mimi Khalvati’s class are on sale now, and there are very few left; and for Hilary Mantel’s and Caroline Moorehead’s from 2nd November, from 9am.
To book, please call Kim Patrick on 020 7324 2557.

Globe Theatre

Thursday 29 October, 7pm
THEO CROSBY FELLOWSHIP LECTURE: PROFESSOR RALPH COHEN
Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre, Globe Theatre
£12 (£10 FoSG/concs/students) including a glass of wine/juice
Each Actor on His Ass:  Agency and Audience in Modern and Early Modern Theatre
Actors ran Shakespeare’s company: there was no director in the modern sense. And therefore it was appropriate that the leader of the artistic endeavours of the recreated Globe be an actor. Ralph Cohen discusses the decline of the agency of actors in the production of theatre, and, using the work of the actors at the Blackfriars Playhouse as the basis for the talk, explores some of the prospects for - and obstacles to - a present day actor-driven theatre. 
The Theo Crosby Fellowship lecture is given in memory of the man who helped articulate Sam Wanamaker’s vision by providing plans for the International Shakespeare Globe Centre. 

Royal Society of Medicine
Thursday 29 October 2009, 2.00 pm
Sherlock Holmes, Forensic Medicine and Fictional Crime Fighters
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE

This meeting will examine the influence that forensic medicine has had on modern crime fiction.
Guest speakers include the author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz; and Andrew Lycett, author of Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes. The meeting is chaired by Emilia Fox, star of the BBC's Silent Witness.
The meeting is free of charge.
For more details visit: www.rsm.ac.uk/sherlock

LCACE 
Inside Out Festival
Monday 19 – Sunday 25 October 
Inside Out is a major new festival curated by the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) to showcase the fascinating contribution of nine London universities to the capital’s cultural life. 
Literary highlights include:
Former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion introducing his latest book of poems
King’s College Chapel London
22 October 6.30pm; £5
Goldsmiths tutors and writers Blake Morrison & Maura Dooley exploring Creative Writing as a taught subject
Somerset House
23 October 5.00pm; £5
A series of Creative Writing Workshops led by Patience Agbabi; Kreider + O’Leary; Sophie Robinson
Somerset House
24 October; £5 per workshop
An exploration of Wives and Widows of Sea Captains in literature with Professor Robert Hampson and Sophie Gilmartin from Royal Holloway
Somerset House
24 October; Free
For more information visit http://www.lcace.org.uk