Sunday the 23rd to Friday the 28th: Susan will be giving a reading from new work at an international conference entitled ‘Reading Bloomsbury’, to be held at Homerton College in Cambridge.
June
Thursday the 29th to Sunday the 2nd: Susan will be taking part in a round-table discussion at the 27th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference ‘Virginia Woolf and the World of Books’ hosted by the University of Reading. The title of the round-table is ‘Woolf by the Book: Reflecting on Woolf Editions’, and will give Susan an opportunity to talk about the Cambridge Edition of Virginia Woolf’s writing of which she is co-editor.
May
Saturday the 13th: Susan will give a Masterclass on creative writing for Literature Cambridge at the Stapleford Granary.
April
Wednesday the 26th: Susan will be giving a lecture on Virginia Woolf for Literature Cambridge at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, from 1.00-2.30.
March
Saturday the 25th: Susan will be a keynote speaker at a one-day conference on ‘Postmodernist Biofiction’ at the University of Reading,where she will be discussing Vanessa and Virginia. The other keynote speakers will be novelists Maggie Gee and David Lodge.
January
Saturday the 21st, Susan will give the Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture 2017, at the Senate House at the University of London, on the topic of ‘Virginia Woolf and the essay’. This will be the 18th Annual Birthday Lecture organised by the Virginia Woolf Society of great Britain.
2016
December
Publication of an article on writing Vanessa and Virginia in Biographical Fiction: A Reader, edited by Michael Lackey, Bloomsbury London and New York.
November
Saturday the 19th: Lecture, “‘Marcel Proust and the Madeleine’, 15:00-18:00 for ‘The Literary Kitchen’ [Moved from June 26].
‘The Literary Kitchen’ is a new initiative by Literature Cambridge. Susan’s lecture will discuss Proust’s life, his love of food, his interest in the workings of memory and time, and explore why, a century later, his themes still resonate with us. The lecture will take place in the Cambridge Cookery School, and will be followed by the opportunity to bake the perfect madeleine!
September
Publication of ‘Virginia Woolf’ in a new collection by Routledge entitled Fifty-one Key Feminist Thinkers, which celebrates feminist thinkers across the centuries.
July
18th-22nd:Vanessa and Virginia reading and lecture on Virginia Woolf’s Dalloway.
Susan will be reading from Vanessa and Virginia and will lecture on Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway at the Virginia Woolf Cambridge Summer School, between the 18th and 22nd July. This Summer School hosts scholars and readers from all round the world.
June
Saturday the 25th: Reading and Discussion on ‘Literary London’ with Jennifer Wallace, ‘Travelling Through’ bookshop near Waterloo Station.
Susan will be joining fellow Cillian Press author Jennifer Wallace, for an evening of readings and discussion on the topic of ‘Literary London.’ Jennifer, who is Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, will talk about her recently published novel ‘Digging up Milton’, as well as Milton’s own connections to London. She will talk about the influence London had on Virginia Woolf, and will read from Vanessa and Virginia.
Wednesday the 22nd: Panel discussion at King’s College London on ‘The Ethics of Biographical Fiction’.
Biographical fiction has developed into a popular genre over the past two decades, and this panel discussion brings together researchers and writers of biofiction to shed light on the relationship between an author’s power to shape a historical individual’s afterlife and notions of responsibility, creativity, and truthfulness. Susan will be joined for the discussion by Lucia Boldrini, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London; Michael Lackey, Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota; and the Trinidad-born poet, novelist, musician and lecturer, Anthony Joseph. Admission is free and all are welcome.
April
Saturday the 2nd: Interview with BBC World Service’s ‘Witness’.
The interview marks the 75thanniversary since the death of Virginia Woolf, and includes fascinating archive recordings of those closest to Woolf, including her husband, Leonard, her sister, Vanessa Bell, and a wonderful reminiscence of Woolf’s joyous laughter by the novelist Elizabeth Bowen.
Monday the 23rd: Post-show Talk with Lucy Kirkwood and Ben Duke, following ‘Like Rabbits’, a dance piece inspired by Virginia Woolf’s short story ‘Lappin and Lapinova’ by Lost Dog, at the Cambridge Junction.
Publication of ‘The “Supreme Portrait Artist” and the “Mistress of the Phrase”: Contesting Oppositional Portrayals of Woolf and Bell, Life and Art, in Susan Sellers’s Vanessa and Virginia,’ by Bethany Layne in the 2015 Virginia Woolf Studies Annual.
Publication of article on Vanessa and Virginia by Jospeh Yosup Kim and Jung Kim in The James Joyce Journal of Korea.
Thursday the 24th: Chair of new writing session, Motherhood in Recent and Contemporary Women’s Writing Conference organised by the AHRC Motherhood in Post-1968 European Literature Network, Senate House, London.
From The Other Boelyn Girl to Fingersmith, this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years.
2012
December
Saturday the 1st: Talk at Churchill College, Cambridge, to the Cambridge St Andrews Club.
October
Sunday the 28th: Talk entitled ‘From Lighthouses to Paintbrushes: Things as Multi-Sensory Archives’ at Performance: Art-Critique-Experiment organised by Cambridge University and the London University of the Arts.
Thursday the 3rd: Susan will be giving a talk as part of the ‘Afterlives of Virginia Woolf’ series at Essex University at 17:30. This will be followed by a performance of ‘Vanessa and Virginia’ at the Lakeside Theatre.
October
Publication of ‘Painting in Prose: Performing the Artist in Vanessa and Virginia‘ with playwright Elizabeth Wright in Making Sense, Peter Lang.
Saturday the 8th: Susan interviewed by Radio Cambridge 105.
September
Susan will be giving talks and running workshops as part of To the Lighthouse Festival in Cambridge from the 24th September until the 7th of October. The festival is supported by the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and will include performances of ‘Vanessa and Virginia’.
August
Publication of Spanish translation of Vanessa and Virginia, Las Hermanas Woolf, translation by Gabriela Ellena Castellotti, Collection Emece.
‘Vanessa and Virginia’ at the Bakewell Arts Festival.
July
Interview in the Virginia Woolf Miscellany. To read the interview, click here.
June
‘The English Sisters Enter Novel from History’ -《从历史进入小说的英伦姐妹花：评<范尼莎与弗吉尼亚>, a discussion of Susan’s novel Vanessa and Virginia, is published this month in the Chinese journal World Literature Recent Developments, volume 6, 外国文学动态. The article is by Professor Yang Lixin whose translation of Vanessa and Virginia is forthcoming from Nanjing University Press.
Friday the 10th: Susan will be speaking at the 21st Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, ‘Contradictory Woolf’, at the University of Glasgow. The Moving Stories play of Vanessa and Virginia will be performed at the conference.
May
Monday the 23rd: Public lecture, University of Regensburg, Germany.
Performance of Vanessa and Virginia, Regensburg.
Saturday the 14th: Keynote lecture, Demystifying Public Engagement, University of Newcastle.
Friday the 5th and Saturday the 6th: Performances of ‘Vanessa and Virginia’, Bath Spa.
Sunday the 21st: Talk at International Cultural Centre, Krakow, Poland, preceding performance of Vanessa and Virginia. For a wonderful virtual tour of the accompanying exhibition of Bloomsbury art, click here.
Saturday the 6th and Sunday the 7th: Vanessa and Virginia will perform at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute as part of the Bath Festival of Illumination.
Wednesday the 3rd: Talk at Tramway Theatre, Glasgow.
October
Tuesday the 26th October: Talk to Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.
Wednesday the 5th: Talk to Cambridge University Creative Writers, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.
Susan joins feminist critics, including Professors Dame Gillian Beer, Judith Halberstam and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, to give her ‘desert island text’ in an anniversary edition of the journal ‘Women: a Cultural Review‘.
Sunday the 11th: Chairing a discussion with biographer Pam Hirsch at Cambridge Wordfest on novelist and anti-nazi activist Phyllis Bottome.
March
Publication of Vanessa och Virginia, translated by Eva Johansson, Ordfront, Stockholm, Sweden.
Vanessa and Virginia discussed on Not the TV Book Group.
February
Publication of the second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf. This fully updated edition has new chapters on Woolf and race, nation and empire, sexuality, aesthetics, visual culture and the public sphere.
Friday the 11th and Saturday the 12th: Reading at the University of Oxford, Writing Bodies/Reading Bodies in Contemporary Women’s Writing.
Friday the 25th: In conversation with Beth Wright at ‘Making Sense’, a one-day conference in the Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Cambridge.
June
Launch of Harcourt’s US Edition of Vanessa and Virginia.
Friday the 5th: Interview on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show,details.
Saturday the 6th: Reading at Lincoln Centre, New York (International Virginia Woolf Conference). Susan will discuss the novel with Katherine Lanpher, host of Barnes and Noble’s acclaimed Upstairs at the Square, and Ruth Gruber, feminist, activist and author: click here for details).
Workshop on Vanessa and Virginia at ‘Echoes of the Past’, University of Newcastle.
Saturday the 13th and Sunday the 14th: Appearance at Welborne Arts Festival.
May
Publication of American edition of Vanessa and Virginia, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Vanessa and Virginia selected for Barnes and Noble Summer 2009 Discover Great New Writers programme.
Monday the 5th: Appearance at Kingston Literary Festival.
Monday the 25th: Vanessa and Virginia chosen by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire for their ‘Book a day in May’, click here.
