Event overview
Jacqueline Crooks in conversation with Professor Joan Anim-Addo about her novel Fire Rush, shorlisted for the Women's Prize and the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize.
Jacqueline Crooks' first novel Fire Rush, acclaimed by Bernardine Evaristo, Maggie O'Farrell and Caleb Azumah Nelson, was shorlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize and the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, as well as being chosen as one of the New Yorker's books of the year. It follows the adventures and misadventures of Yamaye, for whom 1980s clubs and their dance floors are a release from the stresses of life – until she gets drawn into a brutal underworld. The Times Literary Supplement described it as "a wonderfully literary, musical and original novel about a culture and era that rarely makes the pages of fiction".
Jacqueline Crooks was born in Jamaica and brought up in Southall in the 1970s and 1980s. and studied for an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths. Her work was appeared in Granta and Mslexia.
Professor Anim-Addo founder and director of the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies at Goldsmiths. She has published poetry and an opera libretto, and written a literary history, Touching the Body: History, Language and African-Caribbean Women's Writing (2007).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 28 Feb 2024 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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