Wild Writing: Shores of Memory, Tides of Truth

Dive into the raw, untamed heart of storytelling with ‘Wild Writing,’ a festival exploration of memoir, fiction, and the spaces in between. Join Jeff Young, navigating the hallucinatory landscapes of memory in Wild Twin; Jake Morris-Campbell, charting a poetic pilgrimage through Northumbria in Between the Salt and the Ash; and Tony Wailey, evoking the maritime rhythms of Liverpool’s past in his series The Diary of the Smyth-Wailey’s. Discover how these writers push the boundaries of form, blending fact and feeling to forge new, powerful ways of telling our stories. From personal journeys to regional odysseys, experience the wild, transformative power of words. Jeff Young is a Liverpool-based writer for screen, stage, and radio. A former Creative Writing lecturer, he is the author of Ghost Town (Costa Prize-shortlisted) and Wild Twin, a dreamlike memoir of travel, memory, and loss. Tony Wailey is a Liverpool-born writer and former seaman. His work explores . His work, including his forthcoming book, Rhythms That Carry, maritime history and identity, with a focus on Liverpool’s seafaring past entwined with the personal stories of those who lived it. Jake Morris-Campbell is a poet and BBC New Generation Thinker from South Shields. In Between the Salt and the Ash (March 2025), he embarks on a pilgrimage across Northumbria, exploring history, identity, and cultural change.