13/08/11 - Swanwick 2011

Mid-afternoon saw me at the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick, Derbyshire, for my sixth year at The Writers’ Summer School

As always, there was a flurry of meeting old friends and getting to know some of the ‘white badgers’, those who are new to Swanwick this year.  (The old sweats have yellow badges.)

After Chairman Xanthe Wells’s welcome and the distribution of certificates to those who had won this year’s Swanwick competitions, we went into dinner and then settled down to enjoy an hour with Iain Banks ‘In interview with John Jarrold’.  A session in the bar followed and then, to quote Pepys, to bed.