Event overview
Goldsmiths Writers' Centre - The new life writing with Jenn Ashworth and Katherine Angel
Life writing has been transformed in recent years, to become one of the most diverse and innovative literary genres today. Two leading exponents of the form talk about the new directions it’s taking and how they put together their recent books.
Katherine Angel was born in Brussels, studied at Harvard and earned a PhD. in the history of psychiatry and sexuality from Cambridge. She is currently director of the MA in creative writing at Birkbeck. Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell, attracted international attention, with one review describing it as ‘one of those totally out-of-the blue, impossible-to-classify, weird and new and wonderful fiction-ish nonfiction books, which make you go, “Whoa: this is what we need now”.’ Her latest book, Daddy Issues, came out earlier this year, and her next, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, will be published by Verso in 2021.
Jenn Ashworth is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and author of the novels A Kind of Intimacy, Cold Light, The Friday Gospels, and Fell. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Notes Made While Falling – published this month – is a genre-bending memoir that offers a fresh, visceral and idiosyncratic perspective on creativity, spirituality, illness and the limits of fiction. At its heart is a story of a disastrously traumatic childbirth, its long aftermath and the roots of both trauma and creativity in an extraordinary childhood.
To attend please email english@gold.ac.uk
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 23 Oct 2019 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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