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2008Cafe Writers, NorwichCafe Writers will be meeting next Monday, 11th February at
7.30pm in Jurnets Bar, Wensum Lodge, King St. Norwich. A hat will
be passed round for the guests expenses, and a donation of £2.00 is
suggested.
Our guests are MICHAEL MACKMIN & JOANNA GUTHRIE
Michael Mackmin was born in Croydon in 1941 and studied at
Exeter, Leeds and Newcastle Universities. He moved to Norfolk in
the late 1960s, re-trained as a Gestalt Psychotherapist and now
works as a counsellor. He co-founded The Rialto in 1984 and has
been sole editor since 1996. His first collection, The Play of
Rainbow, and a pamphlet, Connemara Shore, appeared in the 1970s. A
new pamphlet, Twenty Three Poems, was published in 2006.
Joanna Guthrie was born in London in 1970, and lived near Diss
from the age of eight until adulthood. She graduated with a degree
in English Literature from the University of York in 1992, took a
diploma in journalism in Cornwall in 1997, and most recently, in
2005, completed an MA in Creative Writing from the University of
Exeter, where she specialised in life-writing and poetry. In 2006,
she was short-listed in the Creative Non-Fiction category of the
New Writing Partnership's New Writing Ventures, for Hurricane
Season: a travelogue / memoir based on her experiences living in
the Florida Keys in 2001, working in a mental health facility. In
2007, she was part of a collective of local artists who put
together the Norwich exhibition Ammunition: Make Art Not War. Her
first collection, Billack's Bones, was published by Rialto in
2007.
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