Thu, 01 Feb
|Taliesin Create
Crow Face, Doll Face, in conversation
Carly Holmes talks to Elaine Canning with a reading and Q&A
Time & Location
01 Feb 2024, 18:00 – 19:00
Taliesin Create, Singleton Park, University, Sketty, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
About the event
THIS IS AN EXTERNAL EVENT RUN BY THE LITERARY SALON
***Please note the date of this event has been moved to 1 February 2024***
TICKETS FREE - Available here: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/cultural-institute/events/literary-salon-series/#thursday-9-november-crow-face-doll-face-carly-holmes-talks-to-elaine-canning-with-a-reading-and-qa-contents
LOCATION: HQ Urban Kitchen, Llys Glas, 37 Orchard St, Swansea SA1 5AJ
A story full of strangeness and extraordinary twists, games and trickery, Crow Face, Doll Face explores being forced to live with the consequences of the decisions we make and the fantasies we construct to soothe ourselves when the life we live falls far short of the life we planned.
Unhappily married mother of four, Annie is drowning in domestic servitude. She often wonders what her life could have been had she not had children, but when her youngest daughters perform a seemingly impossible act of levitation, her life is touched with magic and she realises that her girls are truly special and that she must protect them. Eventually Annie musters the courage to leave the wreck of her marriage, but she commits a terrible, unthinkable, unmotherly act along the way.
Carly Holmes lives and writes on the banks of the river Teifi, west Wales. Her debut novel The Scrapbook was shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award, and her Literary Strange short story collection Figurehead was published in limited edition hardback by Tartarus Press, and reprinted in paperback by Parthian Books. Her prize-winning short prosehas appeared in journals and anthologies such as Ambit, The Ghastling, The Lonely Crowd, and has twice been selected for The Best Horror of the Year.
In partnership with Cover to Cover
THIS IS AN EXTERNAL EVENT RUN BY THE LITERARY SALON
TICKETS FREE - Available here: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/cultural-institute/events/literary-salon-series/#thursday-9-november-crow-face-doll-face-carly-holmes-talks-to-elaine-canning-with-a-reading-and-qa-contents