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Dr Adam O’Riordan, Academic Director at Manchester Writing School will present at the ‘To Live and Write in LA’ creative writing conference at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles as part of the University’s blooming cultural partnership with the city.
The event takes place from September 16-17th.
Adam O’Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982 and read English at Oxford University. In 2008O’Riordan became the youngest Poet-in-Residence at The Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His first collection In the Flesh (Chatto and Windus) won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. He is Lecturer in Poetry Writing at the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.
"To Live and Write in LA" is a chance to spark your creativity, hone your craft, and appreciate what it means to be a writer working in the Entertainment Capital of the World. Whatever your genre or background in writing, at "To Live and Write in LA," you'll understand why Frank Lloyd Wright once said, “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
You can find out more about the conference here: https://www.msmu.edu/events/to-live-and-write-in-la/
Wednesday, 20th September 2017