Deborah Levy
18 February 2021
7.00pm
Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels, including Swimming Home, Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything. She has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize twice and the Goldsmiths Prize twice. Deborah Levy is also the author of an acclaimed series of living autobiographies, Things I Don’t Want To Know and The Cost of Living. The final volume of this series, Real Estate, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in 2021.
Isabel Waidner
Thursday 25 February 2021
7.00pm
Isabel Waidner is a writer and critical theorist. Their novels We Are Made of Diamond Stuff (2019) and Gaudy Bauble (2017) were shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize (2x), and won the Internationale Literaturpreis. Waidner is a co-founder of the event series Queers Read This at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, and the host of This isn’t a Dream, a literary talk show, also with the ICA. They are the editor of Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Writing (2018), and their next novel Sterling Karat Gold is forthcoming with Peninsula Press in June 2021.
As part of the celebrations for UNESCO International Women’s Day
Joanna Walsh
Thursday 11 March 2021
7.00pm
Joanna Walsh is a writer and artist. She has written seven books including Break.up, Hotel, Vertigo, Worlds from the Word’s End, and the digital work Seed. Her multidisciplinary text-based works are expressed across a range of media, bringing together digital technologies with more traditional work. Joanna was also Humber Mouth’s first Digital Writer-in-Residence in 2020. She devised the Hull Story Map which was live in the summer 2020 and that you can see here along with an accompanying essay Place Writing.
To celebrate UNESCO World Poetry Day on 21 March 2021 we are delighted to have events and workshops with two of the UK’s most exciting and innovative poets
Nisha Ramayya
Saturday 20 March 2021
7.00pm
Nisha Ramayya grew up in Glasgow and is currently based in London. Her debut collection States of the Body Produced by Love (2019) – a ‘modern mystical journey through love’ – is published by Ignota Books and has been hailed as ‘urgent and lyrical’ by the New Statesman. She is a member of the ‘Race & Poetry & Poetics in the UK’ research group and a lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London.
Nisha Ramayya:
Poetry Workshop
Saturday 20 March 2021
2.00 – 4.00pm
Places are limited and must be booked in advance.
Holly Pester
Saturday 27 March 2021
7.00pm
Holly Pester is a London-based poet and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Essex. Her recent radio work, Poems for Idle Workers was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2019, and her poem, ‘Comic Timing’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, Best Single Poem, 2019. Her book, Go to reception and ask for Sara in red felt tip is a collection of poetry and experimental fictions written in response to the Women’s Art Library archives (Book Works 2015) and her album + poetry pamphlet, Common Rest (Test Centre 2016) is a collection of collaborative lullabies and sound poems. Her collection, Comic Timing is forthcoming from Granta in 2021.
Holly Pester:
Poetry Workshop
Saturday 27 March 2021
2.00 – 4.00pm
Delivered in partnership with Hull Libraries.
Thanks to Hull Culture And Leisure for the ‘It’s Never Dull in Hull’ t shirt as worn by Jennifer Hodgson in the event with Isabel Waidner.