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Naomi Wood: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

12:30pm - 1:30pm / Sunday 6th October 2024 / Venue: Eleanor Rathbone Building
Type: Lecture / Category: Public / Series: Liverpool Literary Festival 2024
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Novelist and short story writer Naomi Wood joins us to talk about her latest short story collection, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things and her story Comorbidities, which is included in the collection and won the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award.

Her story ‘Comorbidities’ won the 2023 BBC National Short Story Prize, and others have been shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize, and the ALCS/Tom Gallon Society of Authors Prize. She lives in Norwich where she is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Click here to book a festival pass:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/liverpool-literary-festival-2024-vip-passes-tickets-945652952437

All passes will include reserved seating in the lecture theatre, plus a host of other exclusive VIP benefits. Please note, all types of festival passes do not include the launch event on Friday 4th October.

There are a number of FREE University of Liverpool student tickets at all festival events. Students who sign up to receive their free ticket will need to show their student ID when they arrive at the venue.