Tessa Hadley - Literary Fiction
Lisvane Old School Community Centre, Cardiff, CF14 0SX
Saturday 6th June 2026
A Life in Reading and Writing
Tessa Hadley has published eight novels - including The Past, Late in the Day, and Free Love - and four collections of short stories. Her novella, The Party, was published in 2024. She has short stories regularly in the New Yorker, and reviews for the Guardian and the London Review of Books; she was awarded a Windham Campbell prize for Fiction and the Hawthornden Prize in 2016, and has won the Edge Hill Prize twice: in 2018, for Bad Dreams, and in 2024, for After The Funeral.
In "A Life in Reading and Writing", Tessa will talk about how her lifelong love of reading fed into becoming a writer and sustains her. The presentation will be interspersed with readings of her work.
For more information on Tessa please follow this link: www.unitedagents.co.uk/tessa-hadley
Listen to Tessa talking about writing: The desire to tell stories
Tessa Hadley has published eight novels - including The Past, Late in the Day, and Free Love - and four collections of short stories. Her novella, The Party, was published in 2024. She has short stories regularly in the New Yorker, and reviews for the Guardian and the London Review of Books; she was awarded a Windham Campbell prize for Fiction and the Hawthornden Prize in 2016, and has won the Edge Hill Prize twice: in 2018, for Bad Dreams, and in 2024, for After The Funeral.
In "A Life in Reading and Writing", Tessa will talk about how her lifelong love of reading fed into becoming a writer and sustains her. The presentation will be interspersed with readings of her work.
For more information on Tessa please follow this link: www.unitedagents.co.uk/tessa-hadley
Listen to Tessa talking about writing: The desire to tell stories
