Alice Fowler
The Woking Writers' Collective is pleased to announce that Woking Library
is staging a couple of events by Alice Fowler and Joelle Tamraz.
Join Alice Fowler from 6pm on Thursday 22 February as she delves into a world of change and reinvention. Where relationships are
as delicate as turtle eggs and just as easily smashed.
Her poignant
short story collection explores pivotal moments that transform our lives.
Jenny, whose life is defined by small disasters, discovers a more generous
version of herself. A traveller girl might just win her race and alter her
life’s course. A widow, cut off in a riverside backwater, opens her heart to a
stranger.
In her captivating
collection, The Truth Has Arms and Legs, readers will be moved by the
raw vulnerability of human connection, and the resilience that enables us to
thrive and grow. In change, Alice Fowler’s characters find the ability to be
truly free.
Tickets are
just £6.00 each. Please arrive ten minutes before the event starts.
Alice, previously featured on the blog, is an award-winning short stories and longer fiction writer. She won the Historical Writers’ Association short story
competition in 2020 and the Wells Festival of Literature short story
competition in 2021.
Other stories
have been short- and long-listed in prizes and printed in anthologies. Her
historical novel was longlisted for the 2021 Stylist Feminist Fiction Prize.
Alice has a
degree in Human Sciences from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and worked as a
national print journalist until 2006.
She lives in
Surrey with her husband and teenage sons and loves theatre, tennis and walking
in the Surrey Hills.
Author website:
www.alicefowlerauthor.com Twitter: @alicefwrites
EVENT LINK
Joelle Tamraz
The following
Tuesday, (27 February) it’s the turn of Joelle Tamraz who will be talking
about her new book, The Secret Practice and more.
Join Joelle
Tamraz as she speaks about her debut memoir, The
Secret Practice: Eighteen Years on the Dark Side of Yoga, reads like a
fast-paced novel and speaks to themes of mind control, manipulation, and
trauma, as well as self-empowerment and healing.
There
will be an opportunity for the audience to ask questions and books will be on
sale at the end of the session.
Joelle is a
memoir and life writer. Her writing explores psychological themes, moral
questions, and family dynamics.
She
earned an Honours BA degree in social studies from Harvard and an MBA from
INSEAD. Before writing full-time, she held senior roles in technology companies
for over two decades and owned a yoga studio for ten of those years. She is
also a certified life coach and a youth mentor.
Originally
from the Middle East, she has lived in the US and France and now resides in the
UK with her husband and two dogs. She's passionate about sustainability and
loves spending time outdoors, walking, cycling, or simply being in nature.
Again,
the one-hour event commences at 6pm.
EVENT LINK
Are you a local
author who would like to talk about your writing at Woking Library? Library Manager,
Juniper Freyne would like to hear from you.
Contact: Jennifer.freyne@surreycc.gov.uk
