Kit was invited to be a speaker at this annual one day event, held at the London Road Campus. Along with the other speakers, she read extracts from Magus of Stonewylde, including the powerful description of Quarrycleave. Then she ran her 90 minute workshop for a group of women, all of whom had read at least the first book in the series. Kit’s planned talk was based on the works of Joseph Campbell and his study of archetypes which occur in all human story-telling, from ancient mythology to modern fiction. Kit had discovered this book long afte she wrote Stonewylde, and was amazed to find how her 
characters seemed to fit into the archetypal roles described by Campbell. However, after a group activity that demonstrated the importance of local place and setting, one of the women asked if they could forget all the intellectual stuff and just talk about Stonewylde! So for the last half of the morning, Kit spent a lovely time discussing the books and her future plans for Stonewylde, and the group were able to ask lots of questions and discuss characters and plot. It was a really enjoyable session, and Kit was honoured to be invited by Penny Hunter, organiser of the event. The photos shown are courtesy of Liz, one of the members of the group.
