DISTURBING THE BODY III: Feminism & Body Politics with Housmans

Part 3 of the launch of Disturbing The Body, a subversive new anthology of speculative memoir about misbehaving bodies by women writers, from indie publisher Boudicca Press.

This event, hosted by Housmans Bookshop, explores feminism & body politics with Abi Hynes & Irenosen Okojie.

Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British writer. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Observer, The Guardian, the BBC and the Huffington Post, amongst other publications. Her short story collection Speak Gigantular, published by Jacaranda Books, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her new collection of stories, Nudibranch published by Little Brown’s Dialogue Books, was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. She is the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for Fiction for her story, ‘Grace Jones’. http://www.irenosenokojie.com

​ Twitter: @IrenosenOkojie

Abi Hynes is a drama and fiction writer based in Manchester. Her plays have been staged in venues across the UK, and she is currently working on original audio drama and TV projects. Her short stories have been widely published, most recently in Black Static, Lucent Dreaming and Neon Magazine, and she was shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Novella-in-Flash Award in 2018. She won the Cambridge Short Story Prize in 2020.