This fun, playful and provocative workshop with author Ann Morgan is centred on exploring how focusing on the things we can’t explain in a text might enrich and broaden our understanding of reading, culture and ourselves. 

The tutor will provide materials, including the extracts, which usually come from translated works drawn from a wide range of literatures underrepresented in anglophone publishing, and are invited to explore what questions, problems or reactions writing from unfamiliar traditions provoke or pose.

No prior experience or preparation is necessary. It’s open to all: you might be a book lover, you might be looking for ways back into reading, you might be a teacher, writer, librarian, or just generally curious about what assumption and bias does in reading. 

Come join us! 

Meet the Tutor

Ann Morgan is an author, speaker and editor based in Folkestone. Ann’s writing has been published widely, including in the Guardian, Independent and Financial Times, and by the BBC. In 2012, she set herself the challenge of reading a book from every country in a year – a project that led to a TED talk and to the non-fiction book Reading the World: How I Read a Book from Every Country. Her debut novel, Beside Myself, has been translated into eight languages. Crossing Over, her latest novel, draws on her experience living just a few minutes from where a number of the small boats crossing the Channel land. She is Literary Explorer in Residence of the Cheltenham Literature Festival.