About this Event
The Panellists are:
Sufiyaan Salam is a writer and former animator from Blackburn. He’s working on several TV & feature projects, and co-write the short film MAGID / ZAFAR, which won the BIFA award in 2025 and is shortlisted for a BAFTA for Best Short Film. Wimmy Road Boyz, winner of the #MerkyBooks New Writers’ prize, is a wildly inventive and raw exploration of masculinity, love and violence.
Jem Calder was born in Cambridge and lives and works in London. His fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly and Granta, and his debut short story collection, Reward System, was published by Faber in 2022. I Want You To Be Happy is a sharp-eyed tale of two people searching or meaning and connection, and not getting it quite right.
Alex Kadis studied English Literature at Goldsmiths University before embarking on a music journalism career. She was Features Editor at Smash Hits in its heyday and has also written for various newspapers and magazines, including Sunday Times Style and Q Magazine. She then went into artist management and now works as a consultant in the music industry. Big Nobody is a disarmingly tender and funny coming-of-age novel about first love, first grief, and the long, painful journey to feeling like somebody.
Rebecca Perry is a poet and author. Her first poetry collection, Beauty/Beauty, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, won the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017, and was shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection. Her second collection, Stone Fruit, was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. May We Feed the King dances between a historical subject who resists the march of progress and a woman who turns to the past to hide from her present, to offer a beguiling meditation on history and storytelling.
This evening will be hosted by Julia Armfield. Julia's work has been published in Granta, The White Review and Best British Short Stories 2019 and 2021. She is the author of salt slow, a collection of short stories, which was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020. Her debut novel, Our Wives Under The Sea, was shortlisted for the Foyles Fiction Book of the Year Award 2022 and won the Polari Prize 2023. Her second novel, Private Rites, was longlisted for the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke award 2025.
This event will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
*Please note that the Auditorium at Foyles is fully accessible from the Ground floor lifts.Tickets: £10 General Admission / £8 Foyalty Member
Venue: The Auditorium (Level 6) at Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road*
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 8.00 to GBP 10.00
