Writing Adventurous Non-Fiction; a masterclass with writer Dan Richards | GLADFEST 2023 - three spaces left
Writing Adventurous Non-Fiction; a masterclass with writer Dan Richards
Friday 8th September 2.30pm – 4pm
Tickets can no longer be purchased via our website. The remaining in-person tickets can be bought from our Reception and will be available at our on-site box office on September 8th and 9th.
Sunday Times Bestselling author Dan Richards returns to Gladstone’s Library for a masterclass exploring different approaches to writing adventurous non-fiction. This class will cover narrative, voice, the importance of engaging directly and poetically with source material, and the power of asking simple child-like questions.
Dan Richards is a writer and broadcaster who has written for newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, Economist, Monocle, Telegraph, Granta, and Harper’s Bazaar.
His first book, Holloway (Faber, 2013), co-authored with Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood, was a Sunday Times Bestseller. In Climbing Days (Faber, 2016), Dan followed in the footsteps and handholds of his trailblazing relatives, Dorothy Pilley & I.A. Richards — pioneers of Alpine peaks and English Criticism alike.
His most recent work, Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth (Canongate, 2020), examined of the appeal and pull of far-flung shelters in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans & deserts; landscapes and cabins which have long inspired adventurers, pilgrims, writers, & artists.
Only After Dark, Dan’s BBC Radio 4 series about the nocturnal operations which replenish, repair and protect the world whilst most of us are asleep, was broadcast in December 2022, with a second set to follow in 2023. Overnight — a questing book along similar lines — is set to be published in 2025.
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Cover picture by Steven Gullick.