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On Sunday, October 13, 2013, Audrey will be at the Manchester Lit Festival, talking with Jeanette Winterson about various topics. Here is the description from their website:

Acclaimed author and Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester University’s Centre for New Writing, Jeanette Winterson talks to Audrey Niffenegger about myths, wonder, storytelling and the imagination. Based in Chicago, Audrey Niffenegger trained as a visual artist and has produced prints, paintings and drawings alongside the graphic novels The Three Incestuous Sisters, The Adventuress and The Night Bookmobile. Her novels include the international bestseller The Time Traveller’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry.

She is working on a third novel, The Chinchilla Girl in Exile, and recently published the illustrated novella Raven Girl, which she helped adapt into a ballet for the Royal Opera House. Jeanette Winterson’s books include The Daylight Gate, The Passion, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and the bestselling memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

More information about the event can be found here.

Audrey will be part of a panel discussion on transformation in fiction at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 22, 2013. Here’s the description from their website:

4:00 P.M. The Ugly Duckling: Join three authors who tell the age old story of transformation. James McBride (The Good Lord Bird) tells the story of a young male slave who joins the abolition movement by passing as a girl. Meg Wolitzer (The Interestings) traces the unexpected changes that occur between childhood and adulthood. And Audrey Niffenegger (Raven Girl) takes transformation to a whole other level, in the form of a coming-of-age raven trapped in human form. Moderated by David L. Ulin.

More information can be found here.

As the summer winds down and we enter the new school year, Audrey will be participating in a full-day Guardian Masterclass seminar in London entitled How to Write a Graphic Novel, which is being curated by graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero. The following is information from the Guardian’s website which you can also find here:

Overview

An endlessly versatile artform which places no limits on the ambition of the storyteller, it has produced masterpieces as varied as Alan Moore’s legendary Watchmen and the groundbreaking graphic journalism of Joe Sacco’s Palestine.

Curated by graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero, this in-depth full-day seminar covers everything you could need to know, from the history of the artform to the mechanics of getting published. With tutors including the bestselling author and graphic novelist Audrey Niffenegger and comic book critic, historian and author Paul Gravett, you’ll learn about the unique possibilities the format offers, how to find and work with an illustrator, how to plan an original narrative or adapt an existing text, and how to visualise the finished pages. The day also includes a primer on the realities of the graphic novel industry, making this an ideal all-round course for budding writers who’d like to try their hand at a graphic novel script. Other tutors include Professor of Illustration at the Royal College of Art Andrzej Klimowski, comics writer and curator Paul Gravett, and the creator of 2000 AD Pat Mills.

Details

Date: Saturday 7 September 2013

Times: 9.30am-5pm. Check in begins 30 minutes before start time.

Location: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street London W1G 0AE

Price: £99 Early bird ticket (limited)

£119 Standard ticket (includes VAT, booking fees and refreshments)

Event capacity: 300

Dress code: There is no dress code for Masterclasses. Please dress however you feel comfortable.

There is also a link on the Guardian’s website for tickets to this seminar here at the bottom of the page.

Audrey was recently interviewed by Richard Fidler for ABC in Australia on various topics including Highgate Cemetery and Raven Girl. You can hear the interview here.

Audrey recently recorded a radio essay for BBC Radio 3 about ice cream which you can listen to here.

It’s only up for a few days, but if you have time to listen it is there, along with essays by other writers (Audrey especially likes TC Boyle’s essay about cook outs).

Here is a link to an older but great interview at UR Chicago Magazine Online that Pawl Schwartz conducted with Audrey last year discussing, among other things, Raven Girl and Audrey’s current novel-in-progress,The Chinchilla Girl in Exile.

Greetings to everyone!

We have just returned from the opening weekend of “Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger,” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The show looks amazing, and was a testament to the hard work that everyone put into it. We will post a few images in the coming days to give a sense of the exhibition, but until then, the Washington Post has posted two great articles on their website about the show and Audrey discussing her work.

A comprehensive article about Awaken in the Dream World at the Washington Post can be found here.

And Audrey discusses some of the pieces in the show here.