We are very excited to welcome Glen James Brown as our headliner for May. His Orwell Prize-longlisted working class novel Ironopolis was described as ‘nothing short of a triumph’ by The Guardian.
Glen was born in County Durham in 1982 and studied English at Leeds Becketts University. In 2013 he won an AHRC scholarship to study for an M.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, where he graduated with distinction and the Kate Betts Memorial Award. Ironopolis is his first novel. He lives in Manchester.
Ironopolis is set on a sprawling fictional council estate that is being demolished and rebuilt by a housing association, the working-class community being split up and scattered forever. It takes the form of 6-interconnected narratives across three generations and 60 years. All the people in the book find themselves haunted by a creature called Peg Powler, who is a ‘real’ bit of Teesside folklore.
Our open mic names will follow shortly.
Wednesday 29 May 2019, 7.30pm at Gullivers, Oldham Street, Manchester. Admission: pay what you feel. Venue details here. Join our Facebook event here.
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