Cunard has announced the return of the Literature Festival at Sea, curated by the programming team of The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival aboard flagship Queen Mary 2 in 2022. The line-up will include Bernardine Evaristo, Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith, Mary Beard and Richard Osman.
Guests on the seven-night Transatlantic crossing will set sail from New York to Southampton on December 3, 2022. The event will include a range of workshops, talks and readings as Queen Mary 2 sails across the Atlantic. Guests will hear from well-known authors about their life and work, go behind the headlines with The Times journalists and get a chance to improve their writing skills in workshops led by literary experts.
British writer, journalist and broadcaster, Damian Barr, featured on the 2019 Literature Festival at Sea and will return in 2022. Barr said in a press release, “Books are a world away from the one we’re all in—a portal to other places, an escape. This unique floating literature festival adds another dimension to that feeling of freedom we get when we’re lost in a good book. Away from the world and all its concerns, I find that I think more deeply and have richer conversations with fellow writers and chance chats with passengers along the way. I am most looking forward to returning to this Literature Festival at Sea.”
For more information, visit www.cunard.com.
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