College of Arts & Humanities

Creative Conversations: Vanessa Onwuemezi

Creative Conversations College of Arts
Date: Thursday 28 October 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: Online Event
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Vanessa Onwuemezi
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-conversations-vanessa-onwuemezi-online-tickets-tickets-179574089937

Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London. Her work has appeared in Granta, Prototype, frieze and Five Dials. Her story ‘At the Heart of Things’ won the White Review Short Story Prize 2019. Her first book is Dark Neighbourhood (Fitzcarraldo, 2021).

‘Dark Neighbourhood is a thrill and a challenge. Vanessa Onwuemezi is her own thing, but reading her I experience the same exciting, destabilizing sense of the world being shown anew – being made anew – that I get from Silvina Ocampo, Clarice Lispector or Dambudzo Marechera.’

— Chris Power, author of A Lonely Man

‘Onwuemezi is an exceptionally gifted writer. Her prose is bold, her vision singular. Unnervingly brilliant, Dark Neighbourhood is a phenomenally imaginative collection.’

— Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Checkout 19

‘With stories of ambiguous embodiments, slick, mordant desires and warping cityscapes, Vanessa Onwuemezi’s Dark Neighbourhood offers a new poetics of storytelling. Lyrical clarity combines with formal experimentation alongside hotching, grimaced, and dazzling world-building: a potent, portentous, truly original collection.’

— Eley Williams, author of The Liar’s Dictionary

Note: this eventbrite is for online tickets. You will be sent the zoom link prior to the event and you can also find it in the online event page.

Creative Conversations is funded by the Ferguson Bequest. Professor Thomas Ferguson (1900-1977), Henry Mechan Chair of Public Health (1944-64), bequeathed his estate to the University, with the instruction that the money should be used to foster the social side of University life.

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