The Creative Writing course are excited to welcome novelist C.J. Cooke as the latest writer visiting The Hive as part of the Creative Writing Reading Series.
Hosted by Dr Ruth Stacey, the event is part interview and book reading, followed by a Q&A.
C.J. Cooke is an acclaimed, award-winning poet and novelist published in twenty-three languages to date.
Born in Belfast, C.J. has a PhD in Literature from Queen’s University, Belfast, and was an academic for twenty-five years with expertise in creative writing interventions for mental health.
Her books have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping, and the Daily Mail. She won the Hauteville Prix des Dectrices in France, selected as Waterstones’ Paperback Book of the Year and a BBC 2 Pick, and has been been nominated for an Edgar Award, an ITW Thriller Award, the HWA Crown and the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year.
Her new book, The House of Cursed Daughters, looks at a real-life curse from the 1300s spanning until the present day.