Join us for an evening with graphic novelist Jamie Rhodes. Jamie will read an extract from his graphic novel, “A Castle in England” and tell us about the project that inspired it, in which he spent 4 months living in a National Trust castle creating stories inspired by the objects and documents in its archive, plunging us into its rich and often dark history.
About Jamie
Jamie Rhodes is a writer and academic working in comics, books, TTRPG, and film. His first book was published in 2014 after he worked with the British Library to write a collection of stories inspired by unusual documents in the library archives. The collection, Dead Men’s Teeth, launched with a series of dramatic readings at the British Library‘s Brontë Room.
A Castle in England is his first graphic novel, the result of a collaboration with the National Trust as Scotney Castle’s Writer-in-Residence, writing a graphic novel inspired by the castle’s archive collection. The book was published by Nobrow Press in 2017 and nominated for a prestigious Eisner Award at San Diego Comic Con 2018.
After moving back to West Yorkshire, Jamie wrote and co-directed an award-winning short film, Amputee (2020). The film made the official selection of 22 film festivals worldwide and was nominated for Best Short Film at Cannes Shorts. In 2021, Jamie started his PhD in Philosophy & Creative Writing. He is currently writing his thesis, Alternate Realities: the Phenomenological Experience of Story Immersion.
Find out more about Jamie and his work
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