Lunchtime Talk
Fri 18 Mar 2022 13:00-14:00 at Pervasive Media Studio Event Space
Your Story Matters
In this Lunchtime Talk author, editor and Studio Resident Nikesh Shukla will be discussing his new book on writing, Your Story Matters and will show how easy it is to tell stories well, and why it matters.
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Speaker
Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla is an author and the editor of the award-winning, bestselling essay collection, 'The Good Immigrant'. He is also working on a new lit mag, 'The Good Journal', and exploring new ways of delivering it digitally.This talk will be held in the building and online! Book your ticket here to attend in person.
Author, editor of The Good Immigrant and Studio Resident Nikesh Shukla believes we all have a story to tell. Over the last few decades, as a published writer and mentor, from setting up Rife Magazine with Watershed, to teaching various creative writing courses, Nikesh has worked with many writers who have go on to huge success on everything from voice to character to intention to motivation. In celebration of his new book on writing, Your Story Matters, Nikesh will lay out his manifesto: why we tell stories, why it's important we tell stories and why it's important to know the rules of storytelling and why it's important to trust our creative instincts, in order to get you excited about telling your own story. Not only that, he'll get you writing in the session (you won't be sharing your work don't worry) in order to demonstrate, how easy it is to tell stories well, and why it matters.
Nikesh Shukla is a novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award), Meatspace and the critically acclaimed The One Who Wrote Destiny. Nikesh is the editor of the bestselling essay collection, The Good Immigrant, which won the reader's choice at the Books Are My Bag Awards. He co-edited The Good Immigrant USA with Chimene Suleyman. He is the author of two YA novels, Run, Riot (shortlisted for a National Book Award) and The Boxer (longlisted for the Carnegie Medal). Nikesh was one of Time Magazine’s cultural leaders, Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Global Thinkers and The Bookseller's 100 most influential people in publishing in 2016 and in 2017. He is the co-founder of the literary journal, The Good Journal and The Good Literary Agency. Nikesh is a fellow of the Royal Society Of Literature and a member of the Folio Academy. Nikesh’s new book, Brown Baby: A Memoir Of Race, Family And Home was released on Bluebird in February 2021.
Join us online on YouTube Live, or in the building on Friday 18th March 2022 at 1pm for the talk and to take part in the discussion afterwards.
Click here to purchase a copy of 'Your Story Matters' by Nikesh Shukla.
Address:
Watershed, 1 Canon's Rd, Bristol BS1 5TX
Directions:
The Lunchtime talks take place in the Pervasive Media Studio Event Space. To access the Studio, please go to the Main Watershed Box Office entrance and go upstairs to the Café Bar. Walk across the cafe bar, turn right and walk towards the double doors. Go through into the corridor and walk all the way down until you reach the Studio. A member of staff will sign you in, and check your ticket, if you have booked.
The Studio is wheelchair accessible, and the events space has a hearing loop. The last talk of every month is BSL interpreted.
*Please note this is a hybrid event and will be live streamed so please be aware you will be in the live broadcast and recording when watching in the Studio.
