Join like-minded writers, Festival staff and others from the Nottingham literature scene for a relaxed drink, early dinner and industry talk. Make friends, plot new projects and share ideas.

Writers’ Special: £9.95 for a main course and drink. Offer valid to attendees of this event only.

Special guest speaker Sudeep Sen’.

Sudeep Sen’s prize-winning books include Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Rain, Aria (A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award), The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor), Fractals (London Magazine Editions), and EroText (Vintage: Penguin Random House). His poetry and prose, translated into twenty-five languages, have featured in major international anthologies; and his words have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Telegraph, Herald, Harvard Review, Hindu, Outlook, India Today, and broadcast widely. His newer work appears in New Writing 15 (Granta), Language For A New Century (Norton), Out Of Bounds (Bloodaxe), and Initiate: Oxford New Writing (Blackwell). He is the editorial director of AARK ARTS and the editor of Atlas. Sen is the first Asian honoured to speak and read at the Nobel Laureate Week. The Government of India awarded him the senior fellowship for “outstanding persons in the field of culture/literature.”