Fathers' Day In Conversation
Sun 21 Jun
|St Clements Arts Centre
Ashley Hickson-Lovence and James McDermott will be in conversation about how writing helped them celebrate, memorialise and grieve their fathers
Time & Location
21 Jun 2026, 14:00 – 17:00
St Clements Arts Centre, Fore St, Ipswich IP4 1JZ, UK
About the Event
In this special event for Father's Day, local writers Ashley Hickson-Lovence and James McDermott will be in conversation about how writing helped them celebrate, memorialise and grieve their fathers in their respective poetry collections 'Why I Am Not A Bus Driver' (Bad Betty Press) and 'Father Myself' (Nine Arches Press). The event will be followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing.
About the authors:
Ashley Hickson-Lovence is the author of the acclaimed novels The 392, Your Show and World East, overall winner of teh East Anglian Book Awards 2024 and the YA winner of the Diverse Book Awards 2025. His poetry collection Why I am Not a Bus Driver was longlisted for teh Jhalak Poetry Prize and includes the poem Munster Road, highly commended for Best Single Poem at the Forwards prize. He holds a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia and…
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