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Live - Sorrowland: Rivers Solomon in Conversation with Ama Josephine Budge

05.07.2021 by Pages of Hackney //

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May 7, 2021 @ 19:30 – 21:00 BST

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We are absolutely thrilled to be welcoming Rivers Solomon for a virtual event to celebrate the arrival of faer hugely anticipated third novel, SORROWLAND. Rivers will be joined in conversation by writer and artist Ama Josephine Budge.

Vern, a Black woman with albinism, is hunted after escaping a religious compound, then she discovers that her body is changing and that she is developing extra-sensory powers.

Alone in the woods, she gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong – not with them, but with her own body. It’s itching, it’s stronger, it’s… not normal.

To understand her body’s metamorphosis, Vern must investigate not just the secluded religious compound she fled but the violent history of dehumanisation, medical experimentation, and genocide that produced it. In the course of reclaiming her own darkness, Vern learns that monsters aren’t just individuals, but entire histories, systems, and nations.

Rivers Solomon is an anarchist, a dyke, a she-beast, an exile, a shiv, a wreck, and a refugee of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Fae write about life in the margins, where they are much at home.

In addition to appearing on the Stonewall Honor List and winning a Firecracker Award, Solomon’s debut novel AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS was a finalist for a Lambda, a Hurston/Wright, a Tiptree, and a Locus Award, among others. Solomon’s second book, THE DEEP, based on the Hugo-nominated song of the same name by experimental hip-hop group clipping, was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Award and is on the shortlist for a Nebula, Locus, and Hugo award.

Solomon’s short work appears in or is forthcoming from Black Warrior Review, the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Guernica, Best American Short Stories and elsewhere. Fae live in the UK.

Ama Josephine Budge is a Speculative Writer, Artist, Curator and Pleasure Activist whose praxis navigates intimate explorations of race, art, ecology and feminism. Ama’s speculative fiction and essays have been commissioned and published internationally, including by Anathema Spec from the Margins, the Architectural Review, the Feminist Review, Aperture, Whitechapel Gallery and more. Ama was nominated for the 2021 Arts Foundation Environmental Writing Award, and is working on her first novella a speculative meditation on trees, queer erotics and isolation.
Ama is the recipient of the 2020 Local, International and Planetary Fictions Fellowship with Curatorial Frame (Helsinki) and EVA International (Limerick), and will be researching the topic Pleasurable Ecologies – Formations of Care: Curation as Future-building. Ama is also a member of Queer Ecologies, initiator of the Apocalypse Reading Room project and a recipient of 2020 Bernie Grant Micro commission funding.


Tags // New Fiction

Live - Chris Power & Lauren Oyler in Conversation

04.28.2021 by Pages of Hackney //

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April 28, 2021 @ 19:30 – 21:00 BST

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Join us as we welcome two authors whose respective debut novels have been met with universal acclaim: Chris Power, author of A LONELY MAN, and Lauren Oyler, author of FAKE ACCOUNTS. The event will be streaming via Instagram Live.

Robert is a struggling writer living in Berlin with his wife and two young daughters. One night he meets Patrick, an enigmatic stranger with a sensational story to tell: a ghostwriter for a Russian oligarch – recently found hanged – who is now being followed. But is he really in danger? Patrick’s life strikes Robert as a fabrication, but one that comes to obsess him. He decides to use the other man, and his story.

An elegant and atmospheric twist on the cat-and-mouse narrative, A Lonely Man is a novel of shadows, of the search for identity and the elastic nature of truth. As his association with Patrick hurtles towards tragedy, Robert must decide: are actual events the only things that give a story life, and are some stories too dangerous to tell?

Chris Power is the author of Mothers, which was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. He lives in London. His debut novel, A LONELY MAN, was published by Faber & Faber in April 2021.


On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend’s phone and makes a startling discovery: he’s an anonymous Internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in Internet fakery, irony, and outrage, she’s not exactly shocked by the revelation. But this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies.

Suddenly left with no reason to stay in New York – or be anywhere in particular – she flees to Berlin, and embarks on her own cycles of manipulation in the deceptive spaces of her daily life, from dating apps to expat social events, open-plan offices to bureaucratic waiting rooms.

Narrated in a voice as seductive as it is subtly subversive, Fake Accounts is a wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity and authenticity in the age of the internet.

Lauren Oyler is a New York-based writer who was born and raised in West Virginia, and spends a lot of time in Berlin. Her essays on books and culture have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, Harper’s, the Guardian, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Bookforum, the Baffler, the New Republic, and elsewhere. Her first novel, FAKE ACCOUNTS, was published by 4th Estate in February 2021.


Tags // New Fiction

Live - Who’s Loving You: Sara Jafari, Amna Saleem, Varaidzo, and Sara Collins in Conversation with Sareeta Domingo

04.14.2021 by Pages of Hackney //

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April 14, 2021 @ 19:30 – 21:00 BST

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Join us for a special event featuring contributors to the new short fiction collection, WHO’S LOVING YOU: LOVE STORIES BY WOMEN OF COLOUR. The collection’s editor, Sareeta Domingo, will welcome Sara Jafari, Amna Saleem, Varaidzo, Sara Collins in turn via Instagram Live to read from and discuss their stories.

Lost love. Forbidden Love. Unrequited love. Tenderness. Desire. Romance. Passion.

WHO’S LOVING YOU is a celebration of love in all its guises written by women of colour, with ten original short stories from bold new voices, literary prize-winners and national treasures.

Two souls come together and are torn apart, lifetime after lifetime. A seed of hope begins to grow out of the ashes of grief, heartbreak and loss. Romance sparks in the most unexpected of places. And an unbreakable bond is formed that transcends countries, continents and even the boundaries of time…

In this extraordinary collection, ten writers explore the full spectrum of love in all its messy, joyful, agonising and exhilarating forms. Celebrating and centring the romance, passion and desire of women of colour, these stories burn with an intensity and longing that lingers long after the final page.

WHO’S LOVING US? LET US SHOW YOU…

Sareeta Domingo is the author of If I Don’t Have You, The Nearness of You and creator, editor and contributing writer of romantic fiction anthology Who’s Loving You. Her books for Young Adults are published under S.A. Domingo, including Love, Secret Santa. She has contributed to publications including gal-dem, Black Ballad, Stylist and Token Magazine, and has taken part in events for Hachette Books, Winchester Writers’ Festival, Black Girls Book Club and Bare Lit Festival among others.

Sara Jafari is a British-Iranian author and editor based in London. On the side, she runs TOKEN Magazine, a literature and arts print magazine, which showcases writing and artwork by underrepresented writers and artists. She is a contributor to “I Will Not Be Erased”: Our Stories About Growing up as People of Colour, and her debut novel, The Mismatch, will be published in 2021. 

Amna Saleem is a Scottish Pakistani screenwriter, journalist and broadcaster based in Glasgow with several TV projects in production. Her first sitcom, Beta Female, can be found on BBC Radio Four. Amna has written for publications such as The Guardian, GQ, Glamour and HuffPost amongst many others. She can often be seen on screen digesting the news or compulsively oversharing online. Making people laugh so hard that they temporarily forget their worries is her favourite thing to do in the whole world.  

Varaidzo is a writer, editor and artist. She is a contributor to the bestselling anthology The Good Immigrant and her story ‘Bus Stop’ was shortlisted for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Prize 2018. She was previously an editor for Wasafiri and gal-dem.   

Sara Collins obtained a Master’s degree in creative writing (with distinction) from Cambridge University. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, which won the 2019 Costa First Novel Award.


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Live - Chris Power & Lauren Oyler in Conversation

April 28 @ 19:30 - 21:00 BST
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