Time: 19:00 - 21:00

Date: 27 Jul 2022

Location: Hope Baptist HX78EW

Cost: £10.00

The evening will be BSL Interpreted and will also include a Q&A and book signing.

In this reading and talk Jackie will present new work including her poem ‘A Life in Protest’. 

Event Information

Jackie Kay was born and brought up in Scotland. She is the author of, among other books, The Adoption Papers, which won the Forward Prize, Red Dust Road, winner of the Scottish Book of the Year Award, Trumpet, and the Costa-shortlisted Fiere. She is a former Chancellor of the University of Salford and Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University.

Hope Baptist Church, New Road, Hebden Bridge HX7 8EW.

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