Host: Jenny Knight
Jenny Knight is a prize-winning writer of short story, fiction and memoir, and was a contributor to Kit de Waal’s celebrated Common People anthology. Jenny has worked extensively as a copywriter, editor, and developmental editor, taught creative writing in prisons, worked with storytellers and actors for the UN and Comic Relief in Somalia and Kenya, chaired and spoken on panels, and held workshops about writing, rejection, and resilience.
She has a degree in English Literature and Drama, and studied further in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She has also worked on farms, in pubs and factories, as an actor and a roadie, in the music industry and local radio, and has renovated a former pigsty.
Her debut novel Wild Moon Rising is out now.
Part of the Platforma Festival produced by Counterpoints Arts.
