Sophy Roberts hosts talk at Sherborne Travel Writing Festival

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Sophy Roberts, who lives near Bridport, will hold a speech during the Sherborne Travel Writing Festival

For bestselling author Sophy Roberts, the Sherborne Travel Creation Festival will be a link-up opportunity.

The first few lines of her latest book, Elephant Training School, describe the landscape of her Dorset home.

But, as the travel writer admits: “I have a very uneasy spirit despite its beauty and the people I love living here.”

This spirit brings her globally, and as a journalist and writer, she is now preparing to share with her readers.

Michael Turek Sophy crouched on the gorilla and grinned, looking like she was trying to take a photo. Sophy held the camera, tied her hair into a ponytail and wore a gray long-sleeved top. She and the gorilla were surrounded by trees and green leaves. — Sophy says it means a lot to her to be able to hold an event about her working from home

This is the third year of the Sherborne Travel Creation Festival, with awards held in the town and talks for more than 200 guests among award-winning writers.

The event is of great significance to Sophy, who has decades of experience in the industry.

“Just because my work took me away doesn’t mean I’m not a host without a community, which is why I love this festival,” she explained.

“I find the audience so attractive, enthusiastic, curious. It makes you happy with the shared curiosity of our very beautiful Dorset life.”

Sophy said it was important to her, too, because it was the opportunity for her loved ones to get a chance to learn about her life.

She continued: “It means a lot to me to be able to immerse them in the room, in my life that I pursued for five years.”

Aerial view of Tom Parker, an elephant hears long Greek grass walking. Dozens of gray elephants cross the grass. — Sophy’s latest book, Elephant Training School, will be the focus of her speech on Saturday

The author speaks at this year’s festival until Sunday, including Ann Morgan, Barnaby Rogerson, Kapka Kassabova, Xiaolu guo, Jonathan Lorie, Alexander Christie-Miller, Mevan Babakar and Horatio Clare.

This year’s event will also award a £10,000 travel writing award to a published British or European writer.

Sophy, who will talk at the festival at 19:00 on BST, said the award is “an exciting recognition of the genre” that acknowledges the cost of travel writing.

“[It] It’s really high, a way to do this in advance through a book, but the money is really used up very quickly. ”

Michael Turek Sophy was on a train in Africa, looking out the window, which was half the open window. The view of the trees can be seen through the window. Sophy wore a ponytail, sunglasses and a denim shirt and a dark grey marshmallow dress. As she looked at the view, she put her chin in her hand and grabbed the tracks in the train cabin with her other hand. — Sophy has partially funded her travel writing career by providing freelance writing for other publications

Despite the costs associated with travel, Sophy thinks it is an exciting and “challenging” time.

“It is very important to question the genre of its skeletal colonies. What is happening now is a very exciting recalibration of this privilege and a new and diverse voice.

“Understanding where we don’t come from, the culture where we don’t belong, the politics where we don’t understand – whatever is possible – is the space where these connections happen through written words.”

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