Black History Month Lecture: From black squares to full circles by Patrice Lawrence

Name: Black History Month Lecture: From black squares to full circles by Patrice Lawrence
Start: 2024-10-10T17:30:00+01:00
Location: Curtis Auditorium Newcastle University

Schedule

Thu Oct 10 2024 at 05:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Curtis Auditorium Newcastle University | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN

Black History Month Lecture: From black squares to full circles: Did the 2020 scramble for Black writers make a difference? by Patrice Lawrence
The 2023 film American Fiction probably garnered the longest, loudest laughs from Black writers. Based on the book Erasure by Percy Everett, it tells the tale of a disenchanted African-American literary writer who inadvertently writes a bestseller incorporating every conceivable African-American stereotype. Could this happen here?
Biography
Patrice Lawrence MBE is a writer and mentor. She has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Award and Costa Children's Award and won the Waterstones Prize for Older Children's Fiction, the Jhalak Prize for Children's Books, the Little Rebels Award and the Crime Fest YA Award twice, among other awards. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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