Author Conversations: Jessica Gaitán Johannesson In brief Guests - Jessica Gaitán Johannesson Organiser - Ryan Van Winkle Series - Author Conversations: A Reading Series Book your ticket on Eventbrite About the event Jessica Gaitán Johannesson is a Swedish/Colombian writer and climate justice activist based in Edinburgh. Her fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in The Stinging Fly, The Scotsman, Witness Magazine and Wasafiri among other publications. Her debut novel How We Are Translated, published in 2021, was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. She is Wasafiri Magazine’s Writer-in-Residence for 2021-22 and works as Digital Campaigns Manager for Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh’s radical bookshop which seeks to bring activism and reading together. Her collection The Nerves and Their Endings: Essays on Crisis and Response is forthcoming with Scribe in August 2022. Browse Lighthouse Books' website About the series Every year, the Writer-in-Residence programmes a series of Author Readings and Conversations with the best and brightest writers around. These free events are open to everyone. Spaces are limited, so please book your ticket through Eventbrite. Books will be available for purchase and signing thanks to Lighthouse Books. Mar 10 2022 19.00 - 21.00 Author Conversations: Jessica Gaitán Johannesson Join us for an in-person reading, conversation and Q&A with Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, acclaimed author and climate justice activist. The Project Room, 1.06 50 George Square Newington EH8 9JU Registration via Eventbrite
Author Conversations: Jessica Gaitán Johannesson In brief Guests - Jessica Gaitán Johannesson Organiser - Ryan Van Winkle Series - Author Conversations: A Reading Series Book your ticket on Eventbrite About the event Jessica Gaitán Johannesson is a Swedish/Colombian writer and climate justice activist based in Edinburgh. Her fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in The Stinging Fly, The Scotsman, Witness Magazine and Wasafiri among other publications. Her debut novel How We Are Translated, published in 2021, was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. She is Wasafiri Magazine’s Writer-in-Residence for 2021-22 and works as Digital Campaigns Manager for Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh’s radical bookshop which seeks to bring activism and reading together. Her collection The Nerves and Their Endings: Essays on Crisis and Response is forthcoming with Scribe in August 2022. Browse Lighthouse Books' website About the series Every year, the Writer-in-Residence programmes a series of Author Readings and Conversations with the best and brightest writers around. These free events are open to everyone. Spaces are limited, so please book your ticket through Eventbrite. Books will be available for purchase and signing thanks to Lighthouse Books. Mar 10 2022 19.00 - 21.00 Author Conversations: Jessica Gaitán Johannesson Join us for an in-person reading, conversation and Q&A with Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, acclaimed author and climate justice activist. The Project Room, 1.06 50 George Square Newington EH8 9JU Registration via Eventbrite
Mar 10 2022 19.00 - 21.00 Author Conversations: Jessica Gaitán Johannesson Join us for an in-person reading, conversation and Q&A with Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, acclaimed author and climate justice activist.