Tickets:
- Free For Hearth Members
- £15 in person (cocktail)
- £25-£30 in person (cocktail + book)
- £5 online ticket
Programme:
- 6:30pm - Doors & Bar Open
- 7:30pm - 8:30pm - Book Talk
- 8:30pm - 9:30pm - Bar open
The Women's Prize for Fiction is the UK's most prestigious annual book award celebrating & honouring fiction written by women. Founded as a riposte to 1991’s all-male Booker Prize shortlist, since 1996 the Women’s Prize for Fiction has underpinned a renaissance in literary fiction written by women. The Prize celebrates originality, accessibility and excellence in writing by women and connects world-class writers with readers everywhere.
This edition of QP Fringe sees us hosting a panel discussion with 2 longlisted authors from this year’s competition, in conversation with journalist Kate Leaver:
Priscilla Morris - Black Butterflies
Cecile Pin - Wandering Souls
Join us for a thought-provoking discussion covering some of the best literary voices in contemporary fiction.
About QP Fringe
QP Fringe is a series of literary author talks organised by the Queen's Park Book Festival and The Hearth. Following on the growing success of the annual book festival, this quarterly series of events provides the local community with more thought provoking and entertaining conversations throughout the year.
Priscilla Morris
Author of Black Butterflies
Priscilla Morris is a fiction writer, whose debut novel Black Butterflies is set in the 1990s during the siege of Sarajevo. She grew up in London and read Spanish, Italian and Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. After teaching English in Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro, she did an MA followed by a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She now lectures in Creative Writing at University College Dublin and lives between Ireland and Catalonia.
Cecile Pin
Author of Wandering Souls
Cecile Pin grew up in Paris and New York City. She moved to London at eighteen to study Philosophy at University College London, followed by an MA at King’s College London. She writes for Bad Form Review, was longlisted for their Young Writer’s prize and is a London Writers Awards 2021 winner (literary fiction category). Her debut novel Wandering Souls will be published in eleven territories in 2023, including by 4th Estate (UK) and Henry Holt (US).
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