Noreen Masud – A Flat Place

Lizzie will be interviewing Noreen Masud as part of Clifton LitFest 2024, organised by the Friends of the Clifton Centre and Library.

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award 2024, Noreen Masud’s A Flat Place has been described as raw and radical, strange and beguiling – a love letter to Britain’s breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning with the painful, hidden histories they contain.

Noreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes – their stark beauty, their formidable calm, their refusal to cooperate with the human gaze. They reflect her inner world: the ‘flat place’ she carries inside herself, emotional numbness and memory loss as symptoms of childhood trauma. Robert MacFarlane called it ‘sharp, subtle and very moving’. Masud is a Lecturer in 20th Century Literature, University of Bristol, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker.

Tickets available using the Eventbrite link.