"Writing Home" A Creative Writing Seminar

Our Trinity Term Creative Writing Seminar brings Trinidadian writer, Ingrid Persaud, to Kellogg for a fascinating discussion about her life and work, and what she’s learned on her literary journey to prize-winning publications.

The event begins with refreshments at 5pm, with the seminar taking place from 5.30-6.30pm. All are welcome, no bookings are necessary.

Ingrid Persaud is a Trinidadian writer, artist and former legal academic who lives in London. Her prize-winning debut novel Love After Love, (Faber & Faber 2020) won the Costa First Novel Award (2020), Author’s Club First Novel Award (2020) and the Indie Book Award for Fiction (2021). Her short story The Sweet Sop also won the BBC National Short Story Award (2018) and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2017). Her second novel, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh (Faber & Faber 2024) was published in April 2024. Persaud is Writer in Residence at University of the West Indies, Trinidad campus, during Spring 2025.

Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan

Registration not required.

Open to: Members of Kellogg College, the public,