Book Launch: Bringing You In Dark Places by Wyl Menmuir

Realising your own capability is such an unusual feeling. It's a sort of pleasant shock, that moment of the uncanny when you realise the person you are isn't the person you thought. There's a stranger occupying the exact space you thought you were occupying. And the stranger is you. And the stranger can do things.

A month ago, our team travelled to the Southwest Outdoor Festival to launch Wyl Menmuir's In Dark Places. As the sun set over Cheddar Gorge, we invited everyone to enjoy a glass of wine by the fire whilst Wyl read out an excerpt of his book.

A lot of feelings clicked into place for me then; the feeling of ancientness in a fire, in a storyteller, in a crowd; the feeling of accomplishment, the joy in seeing people give Wyl and our project the attention it deserved; but also that pleasing disconcertion – for all the peace and magic of the night, I still had a voice shouting in my head 'Bugger me. We made a book.'

Now, with a little distance, I've had time to reflect on the process and to think how proud I am to have been involved in this project. It gives me great pleasure to invite you to Falmouth University's on-campus launch of In Dark Places. Wyl will be reading from his work and you'll get a chance to hear about other publishing projects happening in the department. We hope this event will be a chance for students to network with industry professionals over a few glasses of complimentary wine. We're thrilled to bring the project home, to the place it began and share it with all of you!