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.

The event will take place in person, on the 22nd of February at 6.30pm, in FAB0.19.

Tom Crewe was born in Middlesbrough in 1989. He has a PhD in nineteenth century British history from the University of Cambridge. Since 2015, he has been an editor at the London Review of Books, to which he contributes essays on politics, art, history and fiction. In 2023 he was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.

The New Life, his first novel, is out now from Chatto & Windus and Scribner. It is the winner of both the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the 2023 Southbank Sky Arts Award for Literature. The novel has been or is being translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.

About The New Life 

After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, married to Catherine, has met Frank, a working-class printer.
Meanwhile Henry Ellis's wife Edith has fallen in love with Angelica - and Angelica wants Edith all to herself.

When in 1894 John and Henry decide to write a revolutionary book together, intended to challenge convention and the law, they are both caught in relationships stalked by guilt and shame. Yet they share a vision of a better world, one that will expand possibilities for men and women everywhere.

Their daring book threatens to throw John and Henry, and all those around them, into danger. How far should they go to win personal freedoms? And how high a price are they willing to pay for a new way of living?

‘Filled with nuance and tenderness... charting the lives of men and women who inspired not only political progress but an entire new way of living and loving’ Colm Tóibín

Sponsored by the Writing Programme and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies Department

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.

This book presents the innovative pedagogy of Writing Fantasy: a method for exploring and shifting one’s identity as a writer. The book draws on qualitative research with undergraduate creative writing students and fills a gap in the literature exploring creative writing pedagogy and creative writing exercises. Based on the potential to shift writer identity through creative writing exercises and the common ground that these share with the stance of the Lacanian analyst, the author provides a set of guidelines, exercises and case studies to trace writing fantasy, evidenced in one’s creative writing texts and responses about creative writing. This innovative work offers fresh insights for scholars of creativity, Lacan and psychosocial studies, and a valuable new resource for students and teachers of creative writing.