| Hastings Litfest and the Catherine Cookson Trust are proud to announce the launch of the annual Catherine Cookson Lecture, which will celebrate the voices of working-class women writers.
The Inaugural Catherine Cookson lecture will be given by Kerry Hudson and introduced by Dr Irralie Doel.
Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before he Stole my Ma was published in 2012 by Chatto & Windus (Penguin Random House) and was the winner of the Scottish First Book Award while also being shortlisted for the Southbank Sky Arts Literature Award, Guardian First Book Award, Green Carnation Prize, Author’s Club First Novel Prize and the Polari First Book Award.
In 2018 Hudson published a work of non-fiction , Lowborn, recently serialised on Radio four. It has been described as a powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today’s Britain and ‘One of the most important books of the year’ (Guardian).
Dr Irralie Doel is the Pathway Leader for English Literature at the University of Brighton Hastings Campus, and Course Leader for single honours English at the University of Brighton Falmer Campus. Irralie also researches 20th century and contemporary literature and creative writing especially women’s writing, literature and politics.
Opus Theatre – 24 Cambridge Road (Opposite ESK)
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