Please note: This is an online event.

Join publisher and editor extraordinary Jo Case as she interviews Emma Ashmere and Laura Elvery.

Both women have written short story collections that explore the lives of women who live outside traditional expectations, and move back and forth in time, drawing on history. Emma Ashmere’s collection Dreams They Forgot has stories of illusion deception and quiet rebellion with many stories exploring queer lives, or disability. Laura Elvery’s Ordinary Matter, is a collection of short stories inspired by the 20 times women have won Nobel Prizes in the sciences.

This is an online event and free to attend. Please book here, and you will be sent a unique Zoom link.

How to ‘attend’ a virtual event at Readings

This event commences online at 6.30pm using the video conferencing platform Zoom.

To book for this event, you must provide your email address.

To ensure the Zoom event stays private, participants will be emailed an unique zoom link and a password 30 minutes before the event begins on the day of the event. Please check your email.

All bookings for online events will be closed one hour before the event begins.

You do not need to a Zoom account to join a meeting, but mobile users will need to download the Zoom app for their device. Desktop and laptop users can either download the Zoom application or access the event via their web browser.