Friday 30 March

	Afternoon			Registration
	Evening			Opening session: Writing life Drinks reception and opening dinner Reading by Andrew O'Hagan

Saturday 31 March

	Morning			Introductions and discussion: Contemporary Life Rachel Cusk and Andrew O'Hagan Post discussion workshops
	Afternoon			Plenary session on New Writing 14 Claudia Ferradas Moi and Alan Pulverness Reading groups on New Writing 14
	Evening			Reading by Rachel Cusk

Sunday 01 April

	Morning			Free morning
	Afternoon			Discussion: Textual Life part 1 Jonathan Bate and Paula Byrne Textual Life part 2 Ankhi Mukherjee
	Evening			Reading groups

Monday 02 April

	Morning			Standards of living and ways of life in contemporary writing Peter Childs and Sean Matthews Post discussion workshops
	Afternoon			Walking tour of literary Oxford Reception at Blackwells bookshop
	Evening			Palgrave Macmillan book launch

Tuesday 03 April

	Morning			International reading communities: An online chat with Kuala Lumpur Robert Eaglestone and John McRae British Council Literature web resources workshop Juliet Wragg-Morley
	Afternoon			Discussion: Writers' lives Victoria Glendinning and Kathryn Hughes Post discussion workshops/reading groups
	Evening			Hammer and Tongue poetry slam

Wednesday 04 April

	Morning			Discussion: Life writing Blake Morrison and Anne Whitehead Post discussion workshops
	Afternoon			Reading by W.N.Herbert Discussion Creative writing workshop W.N Herbert
	Evening			Reception, closing dinner Performance poetry Grace Nichols

Thursday 05 April

	Morning			Action planning Closing plenary session: response and evaluation Lunch and close of event

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