3D mock up of the book cover for Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
WorkshopUpcoming

The verse novel, out loud

with Bernardine Evaristo, Novelist & professor

Date
Wed, October 28, 2026
Time
local
Venue
Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, London, UK

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What happens in the room

Writing without full stops: a practical session on line breaks, breath and multiple narrators.

£20 · 45 places

About Bernardine Evaristo

  • Booker Prize, 2019
  • British Book Awards Author of the Year, 2020
  • OBE for services to literature

Evaristo co founded Britain's first Black women's theatre company in 1982 and published eight books before Girl, Woman, Other made her the first Black woman to win the Booker Prize, at sixty. She calls her form 'fusion fiction' and has spent decades campaigning for writers of colour in British publishing.

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3D mock up of the book cover for Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine EvaristoReading & Q&AUpcoming

Girl, Woman, Other · Hamish Hamilton, 2019

Fusion fiction: twelve voices, almost no full stops

with Bernardine Evaristo, Novelist & professor

Booker Prize, 2019

Date
Wed, March 25, 2026
Time
local time
Venue
Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, London, UK

Evaristo performs three of the twelve narrators of Girl, Woman, Other and explains where the punctuation went.

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3D mock up of the book cover for Manifesto by Bernardine EvaristoLive recordingUpcoming

Manifesto · Hamish Hamilton, 2021

Eight books before anyone noticed

with Bernardine Evaristo, Novelist & professor

Booker Prize, 2019

Date
Wed, July 8, 2026
Time
local time
Venue
Wren & Hale Hall, Manchester, UK

Forty years of building a career instead of waiting to be discovered, and what the Booker did at sixty.

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