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Writers at York events archive

2022/23 Programme

Walking York, Writing You: An autofiction masterclass with Sophie Coulombeau, 12 October 2022
Poetry Reading: 100 Queer Poems, 24 October 2022
An insight into the world of Publishing with Hamza Jahanzab, 26 October 2022
Shara McCallum: 'No Ruined Stone', 9 November 2022
Jason Allen-Paisant poetry reading, 16 November 2022
Gail McConnell: 'The Sun Is Open', 16 November 2022
Daisy Hildyard: 'Emergency', 22 November 2022
queer! opening, 30 January 2023
Crudi Dench drag night, 2 February 2023
Not Your Valentine's Performance, 13 February 2023
LGBTQ+ History Month, 17 February 2023
Cold Fish Soup & Writing North: A Conversation with Adam Farrer, 19 April 2023
Water Poetics: Suzannah V Evans and Rowan Evans, 6 June 2023
Festival of Ideas: Preti Taneja in conversation with Juliana Mensah, 14 June 2023
Richard Smyth: The Jay, The Beech, and the Limpetshell, 20 June 2023

2021/22 Programme

Sarah Hall in Conversation, 29 October 2021
Things, Greenly: Poetry with Vahni (Anthony) Capildeo and J. R. Carpenter, 25 November 2021
Agitated Air: Book Launch and Conversation, 8 March 2022

2020/21 Programme

Dream of Uncommon Ground: Poetry with Bhanu Kapil, Vahni Capildeo, and Penny Boxall, 2 December 2020
Book Launch: Castles from Cobwebs - J. A. Mensah in conversation with Sara Hunt, 17 February 2021
Just Us: A Conversation with Claudia Rankine, 11 March 2021
Poetry in Action: An Evening with Will Harris, 18 March 2021
Kit Fan and Ellen Wiles in conversation with Alice Nah, 20 May 2021
She-Energy: Women as Creators, 7 June 2021
Courttia Newland in conversation with Dr Clive Nwonka, 9 June 2021
My Mess is a Bit of a Life, 10 June 2021
Sharlene Teo in conversation with Alexandra Kingston-Reese, 17 June 2021
Lines of Inquiry: New Approaches to Poetry, 30 July 2021

2019/20

This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free, 17 October 2019
Nemesis: Collaborative Poetry in Performance, 6 November 2019
Emilie Pine: Notes to Self, 21 November 2019
Hirsh Sawhney in Conversation with Claire Chambers, 15 January 2020
Lunch Poems: LGBT+ History Month Reading, 19 February 2020
Performance Storytelling, 24 February 2020
Alan Gillis Poetry Reading, 27 February 2020
'Still I Rise': International Women's Poetry, 6 March 2020
Roundtable: Working with Authors, 7 May 2020
Openings: Inaugural Event for New Writer-in-Residence, Vahni Capildeo, 22 May 2020
Words and Swords: Mary Jean Chan and Vahni Capildeo, 7 June 2020

2018/19

Ingrid Horrocks, Reading and In Conversation, 1 October 2018
Poetry Book Society Autumn Launch, 11 October 2018
Theodora Danek: Literature knows no frontiers, 18 October 2018
Leontia Flynn Poetry Reading, 15 November 2018
Amit Chaudhuri: The Origins of Dislike, 21 November 2018
Sam Thompson: Reading and Interview, 25 January 2019
Alia Trabucco Zerán, Sophie Hughes and Stefan Tobler: And Other Stories in Conversation, 7 February 2019
Writing the Future, the Present, and the Past, 7 May 2019
Sam Reese: Reading and Interview, 9 May 2019
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: Poetry Reading and In Conversation, 13 May 2019
Michael Donkor: Reading and Interview, 19 June 2019
A Contemporary Robinsonade, 11 July 2019

2017/18

Fiona Mozley, reading from Elmet, 11 October 2017
Michael Longley: Poetry Reading, 12 October 2017
Henri Cole: Poetry Reading, 23 October 2017
The Insider Conversation: Literary Agent and Poet Isobel Dixon, 1 November 2017
Jennifer Egan: Reading and Interview, 16 November 2017
The Poetics of Faith: Exploring Belief in Modern Contemporary Poetry, 12-14 January 2018
Clare Pollard: Poetry in Translation, 8 February 2018
Two Poets: Christopher DeWeese and Valzhyna Mort, 21 February 2018
Eleanor Catton: Reading and in Conversation, 28 February 2018
Carcanet Poets: Phoebe Poewer and Oli Hazzard, 22 March 2018
Poetry Reading: Vahni Capildeo and Alex Houen, 18 April 2018
Daisy Johnson: Reading, 15 May 2018
Stephanie Burt: Poetry Reading, 17 May 2018

2016/17

Adam Crothers and Eborakon launch, 23 January 2017
Gerald Dawe, 'In the wars: Irish Writing, 1914-1945', 1 February 2017
Karl O'Hanlon and Phoebe Power: Poetry Reading, 27 February 2017
Tabish Khair: 'The Significance of Stories in the Post-Truth Era', 9 March 2017
Denise Riley Poetry Reading, 16 March 2017
Poetry Reading: Ruby Robinson, Nuar Alsadir, Jodie Hollander, 11 May 2017

2015/16

Reading and In Conversation: Olive Senior, 12 October 2015
Reading and In Conversation: Shadab Zeest Hashmi, 29 October 2015
Catriona O'Reilly Poetry Reading, 10 November 2015
J ohn Burnside Poetry Reading, 18 November 2015
David Edgar in conversation: 'Adapting the Nineteenth Century Novel, from Nicholas Nickleby to Jekyll and Hyde', 27 January 2016
David Edgar: 'Is the Playwright Dead?', 27 January 2016
Tabish Khair: 'Is Literature Dead?, Critical Hauntings after the Death of the Author', 27 April 2016
Readings by Chloe Stopa-Hunt and Edwina Attlee, 5 May 2016
Graham Swift: Reading and In Conversation, 13 May 2016
Mairi MacInnes Reading, 8 June 2016
A. L. Kennedy Reading, 29 June 2016
Alice Oswald Reads Her Poetry, 1 July 2016

2014/15

Miss Lou, Jamaican Culture & Mervyn Morris, 23 October 2014
Michael Longley: Poetry Reading, 5 February 2015
Spencer Reece: Poetry Reading, 8 May 2015
Neel Mukherjee: Reading and In Conversation, 14 May 2015

2013/14

Amit Chaudhuri,: Reading and In Conversation on Words and Music, 23 October 2013
Maureen McLane: Poetry Reading, 6 March 2014
Tabish Khair: Islamisation and Fiction: A Narrative, 7 March 2014
Reza Aslan, on The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, 26 March 2014
Lavinia Greenlaw: A Double Sorrow, 23 April 2014
Paul Mills, Mike Barlow and Jane Routh: Poetry Reading, 29 April 2014
Alice Goodman and Michael Symmons Roberts in Conversation: Poetry, Music, and the Sacred, 30 April 2014
On and off the page: Words, Music and Voice in Yeats and Stein, 3 May 2014
Adil Ray: In Conversation, 15 May 2014
World Music, World Literature, 17 May 2014
Playing with Words: Music in Beckett and Joyce, 3 June 2014
Daniel Mulhall: James Joyce: Ulysses, Order and Chaos, 16 June 2014
Patrick French in Conversation: Writing the Living Writing the Dead, 19 June 2014