Nat Reeve is a novelist, occasional playwright, and academic, currently teaching Creative Writing at this very university. He has an AHRC-funded PhD in Victorian literature and art history from Royal Holloway, University of London, focusing on a queer reappraisal of the art and poetry of Elizabeth Siddal. Nat's debut novel Nettleblack was published by Cipher Press in 2022, and its sequel Earlyfate just came out on October 24th. Nettleblack was a 2022 Fiction Book of the Year at the LRB Bookshop and Blackwell's Manchester, and a Bookseller Fave of the Year at Waterstones Trafford Centre. The series follows a gang of queer misfit Victorian detectives causing chaos in a small country town: Nettleblack sees a runaway heir/ess turn the whole detective agency upside down, whilst Earlyfate follows those same detectives and a local non-binary cravat designer ruining each other's weeks in every possible way.

The talk will be held online. Please join the meeting here.

Yilin Wang 王艺霖 (she/they) is a writer, a poet, and Chinese-English translator. Her writing has appeared in Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, The Malahat Review, Grain, CV2, The Ex-Puritan, The Toronto Star, The Tyee, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. She is the editor and translator of The Lantern and Night Moths (Invisible Publishing, 2024). Her translations have also appeared in POETRY, Guernica, Room, Asymptote, Samovar, The Common, LA Review of Books’ “China Channel,” and the anthology The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories (TorDotCom 2022). She has won the Foster Poetry Prize, received an Honorable Mention in the poetry category of Canada’s National Magazine Award, been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, and been a finalist for an Aurora Award. Yilin has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and is a graduate of the 2021 Clarion West Writers Workshop. Find out more at www.yilinwang.com.

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Warwick Thursday In-Person Talk with filmmaker Giorgio Guernier

Join us to hear about writing and directing independent films on a low budget

Please RSVP to Lucy Brydon at L.Brydon@warwick.ac.uk

DAY: Monday 21st October 2024

TIME: 2.15pm for a 2.30pm start, finishes at 3.30pm

LOCATION: FAB0.16, Faculty of Arts Building (Ground Floor)

Giorgio Guernier Bio:

Giorgio Guernier is a London-based producer, writer and director.

His first feature film as a director, writer and producer was Suburban Steps to Rockland - The Story Of The Ealing Club (2017), a music documentary on London’s first blues club. The documentary was presented at various film festivals including London Doc’N’Roll and Barcelona In-Edit and bought by SKY UK and other international TV channels.

Giorgio’s second feature film as a writer, editor, director and producer was Never A Master Plan (2022), a narrative feature film on a group of creative Londoners, which premiered at See You Sound (Turin, Italy), where it was presented in the Feature competition.

As a producer, through his company Pop Homage, Giorgio recently produced Il Padiglione Sull’Acqua (2023), an Italian documentary feature film on architect Carlo Scarpa.

Imogen Hermes Gowar is an author with a particular interest in history. Her first novel, the Sunday Times bestseller The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, was a finalist for the MsLexia First Novel Award and the Deborah Rogers Prize; shortlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction and the Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of the Year Award; and longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize. It won a Betty Trask Award. Her short fiction has been included in the Virago collection HAG: Forgotten Folk Tales Retold, and the bestselling The Haunting Season. She is also the author of Eleanor, an augmented reality walking tour of medieval Norwich.

Annie Garthwaite turned to fiction after a 30-year international business career, fulfilling her lifelong ambition to write an account of Cecily Neville, matriarch of the House of York during the Wars of the Roses and mother of Edward IV and Richard III. Her obsession with Cecily and her family began in school and never left her. Setting off in the world of work, she promised herself that, at age 55, she would give up the day job and write. She did just that, completing her novel while studying for a creative writing MA at the University of Warwick. CECILY is her debut novel and, even before its publication, was named a 'top pick' by The Times and Sunday Times.

The World at Warwick Team, in collaboration with the SU, Warwick Hindu Society, Warwick Indian Society & Warwick Bollywood Dance Society, would like to invite you to celebrate Holi, the Hindu spring festival known as the "festival of colours", with us on 13 March 2020.