# Event Details

- **Event Name**:  THURSDAY 27th NOVEMBER  7 -8:30pm Tickets £7.50  BEARING WITNESS JAMES MCDERMOTT AND JEAN MCNEIL 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Wymondham Words Festival 


Poet and playwright James McDermott joins acclaimed novelist, non-fiction writer and poet Jean McNeil for readings from their new books, and a wide-ranging discussion of personal
and ecological grief and loss, taking in the experience of Covid 19 and what it means to bear witness in a climate changed world.

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Jean McNeil is Professor of Creative Writing and the author of sixteen books, including seven novels and a collection of short fiction. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards and has lectured and held fellowships at universities in Italy, Spain, South Africa and Australia, as well as being writer in residence in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey, undertaking official scientific and environmental writing residencies in the Falkland Islands, Svalbard, and aboard ship-based expeditions to Greenland and across the Atlantic Ocean. Her latest book is a fusion of nature writing and memoir, Latitudes: Encounters With a Changing Planet, published in March 2025. 

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JAMES MCDERMOTT's plays published by Samuel French include ‘Jab’ (Finborough Theatre; Offie nominated for Best New Play 2024), ‘Time & Tide’ (Park Theatre/tour; Offie nominated for Best New Play 2020) and ‘Rubber Ring’ (Pleasance Islington/tour). Poetry books include ‘Father Myself’ (Nine Arches Press), ‘Wild Life’ (Nine Arches Pressshortlisted for the East Anglian Book Award) and ‘Manatomy’ (Burning Eye Books; longlisted for Polari’s First Book Prize). James is an Arvon writing tutor and lecturer in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/hethersett/thursday-27th-november-7-8-30pm-tickets-£750-bearing-witness-james-mcdermott-and-jean-mcneil/200029178237239
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, theatre, festivals, trips-adventures
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Hethersett
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: NR18 0PH Wymondham, United Kingdom
- **lat**: 52.57076
- **long**: 1.10988
- **full address**: NR18 0PH Wymondham, United Kingdom, 11 Church Street, Wymondham, NR18 0PH, United Kingdom, Hethersett

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  - **A:** THURSDAY 27th NOVEMBER  7 -8:30pm Tickets £7.50  BEARING WITNESS JAMES MCDERMOTT AND JEAN MCNEIL  takes place on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm at NR18 0PH Wymondham, United Kingdom, 11 Church Street, Wymondham, NR18 0PH, United Kingdom, Hethersett.
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