16th June 2025, 7:30pm-9pm

At Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath, BA1 2HN

Booker prize winning author and Bath Spa University Reader in Creative Writing, Samantha Harvey will be talking about her writing with Professor in Creative Enterprise, Lucy English. Samantha will also be giving a short reading from the Booker Prize winning novel, Orbital. There will be an opportunity to ask questions. This event is free for Bath Spa staff and students.

Samantha Harvey is the author of five novels, The Wilderness, All Is Song, Dear Thief ,The Western Wind and Orbital. She is also the author of a memoir, The Shapeless Unease. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award, the Walter Scott Prize and the James Tait Black Prize, and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Baileys Prize, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and the HWA Gold Crown Award. The Western Wind won the 2019 Staunch Book Prize, and The Wilderness was the winner of the AMI Literature Award and the Betty Trask Prize.Orbital, was published in November 2023 by Jonathan Cape (UK) and Grove Atlantic (US). It was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2024. It is currently on the long list for the Climate Fiction Prize. It is the winner of The InWords Literary Award 2024, the 2024 Hawthornden Prize for Literature and the 2024 Booker Prize.

This event has been sponsored by the Bath Spa University Creative Writing Research Centre.