Books & Spoken Word
Irenosen Okojie
Irenosen Okojie, award-winning author of Butterfly Fish and Speak Gigantular, discusses her eagerly anticipated second collection of short stories, Nudibranch.
“In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of reality . . . A love-hungry goddess of the sea arrives on an island inhabited by eunuchs; a girl from Martinique moonlights as a Grace Jones impersonator; dimension-hopping monks sworn to silence must face a bloody reckoning; and a homeless man goes right back, to the very beginning, through a gap in time. Already declared by the Guardian as one of their must read books of 2019, Nudibranch is a dark and seductive foray into the surreal.
Irenosen Okojie is a British Nigerian writer. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won the Betty Trask Award in 2016 and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Her first short story collection Speak Gigantular, published by Jacaranda Books, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award.
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The event is part of Irenosen Okojie’s residency in Bristol with Words of Colour Productions, a social enterprise that develops writers of colour. The residency takes place across Bristol and involves a writer’s workshop for women of colour on Tuesday 22nd October 12pm – 2pm, and drop in sessions open to all writers of colour on Wednesday 30th October in the Waterstones cafe, 2pm – 4pm. You must register your interest for the drop in sessions prior to the event. Please contact Heather to secure your place: heather@wordsofcolour.co.uk
Photo credit: David Kwaw Mensah
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