BHM25: An Evening with Attica Locke
Join acclaimed author Attica Locke, as she explores the themes of her latest novel, Guide Me Home.
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Join acclaimed US author Attica Locke for her debut WoW appearance as she explores the themes of her latest novel, Guide Me Home. In the third and final novel in the Highway 59 trilogy, Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is forced out of early retirement to investigate the disappearance of a Black college student from her all-white sorority despite his disillusionment in an America forever changed by the presidency of Donald Trump. Known for her award-winning works from Bluebird to Pleasantville and powerful writing for Emmy-nominated TV shows like When They See Us and Little Fires Everywhere, Locke masterfully blends crime fiction with powerful social commentary. Hosted by Des Freeman, Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, this event offers a compelling insight into Locke’s storytelling and the issues shaping her work.
Attica Locke is the author of Heaven, My Home, a Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Bluebird, Bluebird which won the CWA Steel Dagger and an Edgar Award; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Her screenwriting/producer credits include When They See Us, Empire, and the Emmy- nominated Little Fires Everywhere, for which she won an NAACP Image award for television writing. In 2022, she co-created and served as showrunner on From Scratch, the Netflix adaptation of her sister Tembi Locke’s memoir, which trended in the top 10 globally in 84 countries for weeks following its release. Attica and Tembi currently have an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. A native of Houston, Attica lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and Co-Director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre. He is interested in the relationship between media and power together with the political and economic contexts of journalism, media policy and media reform. Des is the author of The Politics of Media Policy (2008), The Contradictions of Media Power(2014) and co-author of The Media Manifesto (2020, with Natalie Fenton, Justin Schlosberg and Lina Dencik). His book Capitalism and the Media will be published by Polity in 2026.
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