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PREVIEW: Two Welsh writers to visit MHCC
The Advocate
A pair of Welsh writers will be speaking at noon Wednesday in MHCC's Town and Gown Room.
Niall Griffiths and Chris Keil will be attending Portland's Wordstock, an annual festival of books, writers and storytelling. The writers will be part of a panel on Welsh identity and literature, according to MHCC English instructor Jonathan Morrow.
Griffiths' accomplishments include nine books, as well as credits as a travel writer and restaurant and book reviewer (as listed on contemporarywriters.com). He won the 2004 Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award and the 2004 Welsh Books Council Book of the Year for "Stump."
Keil, according to his website www.chriskeil.eu, has run a sheep farm, worked in journalism and taught English as a foreign language. Keil's works include the books, "The French Thing" and "Liminal."
Morrow said the writers will read from their works and discuss their writing during their MHCC visit.
Wordstock is held in several locations around Portland Oct. 7-10. For a schedule of locations, times and prices, see www.wordstockfestival2010.sched.org. Several events are free.
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