Words Alive in Libraries: Bristol Central Library - Jacqueline Crooks & Michael Malay In Convo

Join us for an In Conversation with Jacqueline Crooks and Michael Malay at Bristol Central Library.Jacqueline Crooks is a Jamaican-born British writer and community development practitioner whose work explores migration, subcultures, and the rhythms of resistance.

Her debut novel, Fire Rush, is a lyrical, genre-defying story of dub reggae, love, freedom, and Black womanhood.

It won the 2024 PEN America Open Book Award and the Society of Authors Paul Torday Prize, and was shortlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction, Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, Jhalak Prize, Authors Club Best First Novel Award, and the McKitterick Prize.

Jacquelines short story collection, The Ice Migration, was longlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.Michael Malay is a teacher and writer based in Bristol.

He spent his early years in Jakarta, Indonesia, before moving to Australia with his family at the age of ten.

He is the author of Late Light, a book about migration, belonging and extinction, as well as an academic monograph, The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry.

He is currently working on a book about John Berger.This is a pay what you can event with a suggested ticket price of 5.

Please edit the amount to what you feel you can pay when booking your ticket/s.This event is part of the Words Alive in Libraries tour, presented by South Western Regional Library Services and Literature Works, and funded by Arts Council England.

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