Event overview
Michael Handrick will be in conversation with Professor Adam Mars-Jones about his debut book
Part-memoir, part-exposé, Michael Handrick’s powerful narrative looks at how societal prejudices foster the conditions for abusive relationships and mental health crises in the gay community.
In this shockingly raw but beautifully written book, Michael Handrick unpicks the toxic narratives and myths built up by society of what it means to be a man, gay and working class. Moving through time and memory, from a rural council estate surrounded by snowdrop-filled forests, to searching for his sense of self across London, Italy, America and beyond, he explores how his struggles with mental health and abuse were compounded by stigmas around class, masculinity and sexuality.
Michael Handrick's work has been shortlisted for Penguin Random House’s Write Now 2020 and Kit de Waal’s anthology, Common People, and longlisted for the London Writers Awards, 2019. He has had features and articles on culture, mental health, gender and sexuality published by magazines such as Attitude and PYLOT, and his fiction pieces have been published in anthologies such as Litro, and shortlisted and longlisted for various competitions including the Creative Future Literary Awards (2018, 2020).
This is a free, in-person event, that is also being livestreamed.
Please register for the livestream via the link below. If you are planning on attending in-person, there is no need to register.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Jan 2023 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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