Naomi Booth
Naomi Booth is a writer and academic. Her fiction explores, amongst other things, weird landscapes, concentric objects, compulsive fainting, pregnancy, skin, crocuses, environmental contamination. Her short fiction has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize, and included in Best British Short Stories 2019.
KATY MASSEY
Katy Massey is an acclaimed memoirist, novelist and editor. Her critically admired memoir Are We Home Yet? was shortlisted for the Jhalak and Portico Prizes and her crime novel All Us Sinners was longlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and won the 2025 ILP John Creasey Dagger Dagger (the ‘Debut Dagger’) for best debut crime novel.
Join us for an evening of conversation with Naomi Booth and Katy Massey, discussing the themes of motherhood, violence and Yorkshire in Raw Content and All Us Sinners.
This event will be held at Council Chamber, UEA and chaired by Claire Hynes, Associate Professor in Creative Writing.
CLAIRE HYNES writes fiction, creative non-fiction, essays and theatre monologues. Her writing has appeared in publications including Wasafiri journal of international contemporary writing, the Bath Short Story Award Anthology, What the Water Gave Us anthology, Lighthouse literary journal and Tangled Roots anthology. Her theatre monologues have been performed at the Contact Theatre in Manchester. Claire has been selected as an international Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellow for 2025-26. She was a winner of the Commonword monologue writing competition (2016), and she has been listed for the Bath Short Story Award (2014) and commended in the Words and Women ‘about’ monologue competition (2014). She presented and co-wrote the BBC World Service documentary ‘My Granny, The Slave,’ in connection with her creative writing research (2022).
‘No one writes about landscape and the body the way that Booth does, and no one captures the strange lines of connection that run between them with such visceral precision. Brimming with Booth’s love of language and literature, and her irrevocable knack for revealing us to ourselves’
Helen Jukes, author of Mother Animal
‘Powerful, provocative, beautiful and unforgettable. All Us Sinners is a chilling, moving, majestic debut and Katy Massey is a wonderful storyteller’
Chris Whitaker, author of Tall Oaks