Keen to try out a new writer each month without the commitment of a 500 page novel? This is the club for you! Each month we read one short story or piece of narrative non-fiction then meet to share and discuss it. Read the story online then join the Zoom meeting to share your thoughts with other club members.
Zoom link will be sent directly to attendees prior to the event date via email.
April: Gabriel García Márquez - A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian short story writer and novelist. He is best known for classics such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and Life in the Time of Cholera and is the most-translated Spanish language author. Though he passed in 2014 at 87, a new novel Until August will be posthumously published this year.
May: Sarah Firth – We Were Here
Sarah Firth is an Eisner Award-winning and Ignatz nominated cartoonist, artist and writer, speaker and internationally renowned graphic recorder. Her work has been published by ABRAMS Books, ABC Arts, Frankie Magazine, kuš!, Graphic Mundi, Penn State University Press, Penguin Random House, Picador, Allen & Unwin, The Nib, Black Inc, and Routledge. Her first book, Eventually Everything Connects, was released in 2023.
June: Rebecca Roanhorse - Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience
Rebecca Roanhorse is an American science fiction and fantasy writer from New Mexico. She is the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels and short stories including the Sixth World series which blends a futuristic setting with aspects of Navajo culture. Her most recent novel, Fevered Star, was released in 2022. Her short story “Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience” won both the Hugo and the Nebula award in 2018.
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