Shola von Reinhold’s lavish debut novel lays bare, through ornate, layered prose, the gaps and faultlines in the archive. Through obsessive research on an overlooked Black modernist poet, the narrator buckles under the vacuousness of the art world and curates a queer historical scene, breaking it open and revelling in it. Published in the UK by Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd. as part of the Twenty in 2020 Black British writers series, the book won both the James Tait Black Prize and The Republic of Consciousness Prize in 2021.We will announce local readers shortly. Entrepôt 77 is a rugged outdoor space, the venue includes 30 chairs and an assortment of pillows. We encourage audience members to bring their own seating.

Also joining Shola on stage will be Marlowe Granados. Granados is the author of Happy Hour, a novel the New York Times called “confident, charismatic and alive to the pleasure of observation.” She is a writer and filmmaker based in Toronto.