Name: In Conversation: Amy Acre and Katie Bonna
Start: 2024-04-26T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-04-26T20:00:00+01:00
Location: The Hastings Bookshop

In Conversation: Amy Acre and Katie Bonna

Amy Acre, poet and author of Mothersong, is joined by award-winning writer, performer and acting teacher Katie Bonna.
About this Event

Amy Acre, poet and author of Mothersong, is joined by award-winning writer, performer and acting teacher Katie Bonna, to discuss queering maternal narratives, woman/girlhood and formative grief. Amy will share poems from Mothersong and be available to sign copies.

Mothersong (Bloomsbury, 2023) is a lyrical excavation of trauma and healing in the midst of early motherhood. It’s shortlisted for the John Pollard International Poetry Prize, and was named a book of the year in the Telegraph and the Financial Times.

Katie is an award-winning writer, performer and acting teacher. Recent work includes: radio play In Moderation (commissioned by BBC Radio 4, finalist for the Imison Award, BBC Audio Drama Awards 2024); short films IRL (nominated for Best Comedy at the Cannes Shorts Festival 2021) and Fight In The Dog (award winner at Iris Prize, Golden Horse, Golden Lion and Phoenix Shorts Festivals 2022). All The Things I Lied About, her first solo stage show, won the Off West End Award for Most Promising New Playwright. Dirty Great Love Story, co-written with Richard Marsh, won a Fringe First Award and transferred to the Arts Theatre in London’s West End and 59E59 Theater in New York. Her audio production of The Entertainment, was nominated for OFF Fest’s Best Online Theatre production.

Katie was part of the prestigious BBC Comedy Writers Room course 2019/2020. She is currently writing her first novel.

Amy Acre is a poet and editor, born in London and living in Nottingham. Her debut collection, Mothersong (Bloomsbury, 2023) is shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, and was named a Book of the Year in The Telegraph, The Financial Times and California Review of Books. She runs award-winning indie publisher, Bad Betty Press.

Amy is the author of pamphlets, And They Are Covered in Gold Light (Bad Betty, 2019) and Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads (Flipped Eye, 2015), both selected as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. She's written for Radio 4 and featured on The Last Dinosaur’s 2020 track, ‘In The Belly of a Whale’. Her work has been selected as a BBC Pick of the Week and a London Review Bookshop recommendation.