Join writer and performer Harry Josephine Giles for a reading and Q&A about their newest book, Deep Wheel Orcadia, a sci-fi novel-in-verse written in the Orkney dialect.

This is an online event via Zoom, intended for adults. Free, but registration is essential. Participants will be sent the Zoom before the event day.

Part of the Wandsworth Libraries LGBTQ+ History Month line up. For more events, see our website.

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About the special guest:

Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, living in Leith. Their verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia was published by Picador in October 2021 and was a Poetry Book Society Winter Selection. Their poetry collections The Games (Out-Spoken Press, 2018) and Tonguit (Freight Books 2015) were between them shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Saltire Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. They have a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. Their show Drone debuted in the Made in Scotland Showcase at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and toured internationally, and their performance What We Owe was picked by the Guardian's best-of-the-Fringe 2013 roundup – in the “But Is It Art?” category. www.harryjosephine.com