{"id":1404,"date":"2017-02-22T05:02:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T05:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2018-02-23T15:37:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:37:39","slug":"kellogg-college-creative-writing-seminar-series-kat-sommers-1-march-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1404","title":{"rendered":"Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Kat Sommers, 1 March 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Kat-Sommers.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1405\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?attachment_id=1405\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Kat-Sommers.jpg?fit=278%2C402&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"278,402\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kat Sommers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Kat-Sommers.jpg?fit=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Kat-Sommers.jpg?fit=278%2C402&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-1405 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Kat-Sommers.jpg?resize=128%2C182&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><strong>\u201c Wandering lonely as a cloud: Coping with isolation as a writer \u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kat Sommers is a comedy writer based in south London. She has written for the BBC, Sky, and the School of Life, and recently co-wrote a sitcom for Radio 4, <em>Charlotte &amp; Lillian<\/em> , starring Miriam Margoyles and Helen Monks. She has a TV show about best friends in development and is writing a memoir about pop fandom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mawby Room, Kellogg College,<br \/>\n62 Banbury Road<br \/>\n5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm<\/p>\n<p>All are welcome and no bookings are necessary.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk\/researchcentres\/CW\"> http:\/\/www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk\/researchcentres\/CW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c Wandering lonely as a cloud: Coping with isolation as a writer \u201d Kat Sommers is a comedy writer based in south London. She has written for the BBC, Sky, and the School of Life, and recently co-wrote a sitcom for Radio 4, Charlotte &amp; Lillian , starring Miriam Margoyles and Helen Monks. She has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-mE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1531,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1531","url_meta":{"origin":1404,"position":0},"title":"Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Kat Sommers, &#8220;Wandering lonely as a cloud: Coping with isolation as a writer\u201d, 21 November 2018","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"September 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Wandering lonely as a cloud: Coping with isolation as a writer\u201d Kat Sommers is a comedy writer based in south London. 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