July Events ☀️ Celebrating After Sex, The Debutante & Quantum Listening
by Silver Press
It's a triple-goddess-event July for Silver Press, with a chance to celebrate three of our titles, new and old, in three great spaces (plus look out for merch). Join us for some or all and have a Silver summer...
WRITING AFTER SEX, Thurs 11 July, 7.30pm, tickets £5/10: join us at the 💞Vagina Museum🫶🏽 in their fabulous new premises for a night of abortion poetry and conversation with poets Holly Pester and Amelia Loulli, AFTER SEXeditor Alice Spawls, and co-chair of the Abortion Book Club Joe Strong. PLUS! An abortion open mic! 4 x 4 min slots available on the night, bring your best abortion words.
CAFE OTO SUMMER FAIR, Sat 13 July, 11-6pm, free entry: we'll have a bustling bookstall alongside amazing indie publishers such as Bookworks, Books Peckham and Prototype, and a host of indie record labels… stay on after 6 for OTO Bar with DJ Spiritual Advisor & Nice Strangers. A chance for Pauline Oliveros' QUANTUM LISTENING to feel at home in the home of experimental music <3
THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT: (RE)PUBLISHING WOMEN'S SHORT STORIES, Tues 16 July, 1-5pm, Senate House Library, free entry: Join four publishers (including Silver Press!) bringing women writers from the archives into new readers’ hands, and three contemporary short fiction writers and editors, for two panels discussing how to ensure that women’s short stories have a long future. Editor Alice Spawls will talk about Leonora Carrington's THE DEBUTANTE AND OTHER STORIES.
