The Unreliable Nature Writer Event with Claire Carroll and Camilla Grudova - Thursday 20th June 2024

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Join two of our most exciting and inventive short story writers for an evening discussing love, nature and creativity. To celebrate the release of her eagerly-awaited debut, The Unreliable Nature Writer, Claire Carroll will be in conversation with Women's Prize shortlistee and Granta Best Young Novelist, Camilla Grudova. For all fans of the uncanny, exhilarating and hilarious possibilities of the short story...

Buy a copy of The Unreliable Nature Writer and receive free entry to the event!

Thursday 20th June at 6.30pm.

Golden Hare Books, St Stephen Street, EH3 5AQ.

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About The Unreliable Nature Writer

The Unreliable Nature Writer is the eagerly awaited debut collection of exhilarating, macabre and dreamy short stories from Claire Carroll.

Shortlisted for the White Review Prize and winner of the Short Fiction Wild Writing Prize, Carroll portrays an unsettlingly hot, vaguely familiar world of life alongside new technologies and failing environments. Delightful to read, and unsettling to imagine, these are haunting stories about love, loss and strangely exposing housing applications.

About Claire Carroll

Claire Carroll lives in Somerset, UK, and writes experimental fiction about the intersection of nature, technology, and desire. She is also a PhD researcher at Bath Spa and Exeter Universities, where she explores how experimental writing – particularly short stories and prose-poetry – can reimagine how humans relate to the natural and non-human world. Claire’s short stories and poetry have been published by journals including Gutter Magazine, perverse, Lunate Journal, The Oxonian Review, and Short Fiction Journal. In 2021, her short story My Brain is Boiling with Ideas was shortlisted for The White Review’s Short Story Prize, and her short story Cephalopod was the recipient of the Essex University & Short Fiction Journal Wild Writing Prize. Both pieces are taken from The Unreliable Nature Writer, Claire’s collection of linked short stories that examines the interconnection of climate anxiety, surviving late capitalism and dealing with personal loss.

About Camilla Grudova

Camilla Grudova lives in Edinburgh. She holds a degree in Art History and German from McGill University, Montreal. Her short story collection The Doll's Alphabet was published by Fitcarraldo Editions in 2017, and she has a novel (Children of Paradise) and collection of short stories (The Coiled Serpent) published by Atlantic Books. In 2023 Camilla was included in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 5, and earned a place on the longlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction.