Duets - Book Launch Celebration
Featuring sixteen amazing authors, Duets is one of the most intriguing and dramatic books of 2024. To celebrate its launch, join two of its authors - Zoe Gilbert and Roelof Bakker - in conversation with its publisher Tom Conaghan at the Beton Collective on Wednesday 11th December. Zoe and Roelof will be discussing their co-writing of their two short stories - the disagreements and agreements, the limitations and possibilities, as well as comparing their different processes from first conception to editing!
For everyone interested in writing and reading brilliant books...
Featuring sixteen amazing authors, Duets is one of the most intriguing and dramatic books of 2024. To celebrate its launch, join two of its authors - Zoe Gilbert and Roelof Bakker - in conversation with its publisher Tom Conaghan at the Beton Collective on Wednesday 11th December. Zoe and Roelof will be discussing their co-writing of their two short stories - the disagreements and agreements, the limitations and possibilities, as well as comparing their different processes from first conception to editing!
For everyone interested in writing and reading brilliant books...
Featuring sixteen amazing authors, Duets is one of the most intriguing and dramatic books of 2024. To celebrate its launch, join two of its authors - Zoe Gilbert and Roelof Bakker - in conversation with its publisher Tom Conaghan at the Beton Collective on Wednesday 11th December. Zoe and Roelof will be discussing their co-writing of their two short stories - the disagreements and agreements, the limitations and possibilities, as well as comparing their different processes from first conception to editing!
For everyone interested in writing and reading brilliant books...
Zoe Gilbert is the author of two novels, Folk (Bloomsbury 2018), which was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and adapted for BBC Radio, and Mischief Acts (Bloomsbury 2022) which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and journals in the UK and internationally, and won prizes including the Costa Short Story Award. She is the co-editor with Lily Dunn of the recovery anthology, A Wild and Precious Life (Unbound, 2021), and is co-director of London Lit Lab, where she teaches creative writing courses on folklore, folk tales, the fantastic and enchantment, and also mentors writers. She is a Visiting Senior Fellow in creative writing at the University of Suffolk, but she lives in Kent, where the landscape is inspiring her third novel.
Roelof Bakker is a Hastings-based artist/writer and the publisher of Negative Press London. His book Some Queer Animals (Negative Press London, 2023) was shortlisted for the 2024 Author Book Award at Arles Les Rencontres de la Photographie. Short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Duets (with David Rose - Scratch Books, 2024) Responses to Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) and Responses to Love’s Work (1993) by Gillian Rose (both Pilot Press, London, 2022), as well as in multiple editions of Unthology (Unthank Books, Norwich) and Confingo magazine (Confingo, Manchester).