Unfortunately Marian Womack is not longer able to participate in this event. It will go ahead with Jael Richardson in conversation with Patrice Lawrence.
Jael Richardson’s Gutter Child and Marian Womack’s The Swimmers both chronicle one young woman’s journey through a fractured dystopian world of heartbreaking disadvantages and shocking social environmental and social injustices.
Can they defy the systems that shapes their worlds?
About the event:
Chaired by Patrice Lawrence
Running time: 60 minutes
Tickets: £3 / £5 (plus 50p booking fee)
The event will be live on Zoom.
About the authors:
Jael Richardson is the author of The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lesson, a Father’s Life, a memoir based on her relationship with her father, CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey. The Stone Thrower was adapted into a children’s book in 2016 and was shortlisted for a Canadian picture book award. Richardson is a book columnist and guest host on CBC’s q. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and lives in Brampton, Ontario where she founded and serves as the Executive Director for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD). Her debut novel, Gutter Child is a dystopian story of courage and resilience and arrived in January 2021 with HarperCollins Canada.
Marian Womack is a bilingual writer, born by the Atlantic Ocean in a small Andalusian town, and educated in the UK. Her writing is concerned with nature and it features strange landscapes, ghostly encounters, and uncanny transformations through a variety of genres – experimental and hybrid fiction, speculative fiction, gothic and ghostly fiction, and fiction of the Anthropocene. The Swimmers is her latest releae. She is interested in the intersection of storytelling and other forms of narrative, and has participated in art installations, video games, and activist campaigns.
