Latest News – Nov 2019
I’ve received such lovely comments and feedback on the arts documentary I made with producer Faith Lawrence about being writer-in-residence in a cemetery, the language of memorials and how a single woman without children might want to be remembered. It was broadcast on Mon Nov 11th at 4pm on Radio 4 – and is now available to listen to online. It will also be broadcast on Heart and Soul on the World Service on Nov 15th, for those of you outside the UK. Antonia Quirke wrote a lovely preview in the New Statesman: “What does a writer-in-residence at a cemetery actually do? Precisely as you’d imagine: wanders the graves noting evocative things chiselled in stone…We hear rooks, and passing voices. Hershman – modest, utterly unpompous, merely keeping us company – captures entirely the feel of passing time in this place.”
I am delighted to be one of the four winners of Live Canon’s first poetry pamphlet competition, and my pamphlet, “How High Did She Fly” will be launched in London on Nov 25th at the Boulevard Theatre, Soho.
If you’d like to invite me to read and talk about short stories & poetry at your event, institution or conference I’d be delighted. Here is the list of 2019 events so far…