On Writing and Perspective – Sarah Marsh and Viktoria Lloyd Barlow In conversation with Rachel Genn

Tinder Press authors Sarah Marsh and Viktoria Lloyd Barlow talk about being deaf and neurodivergent writers respectively, their approach to bringing their own life experiences into their work, why it’s so important to them and their advice to future writers.

Sarah Marsh was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish prize in 2019 and selected for the London Library Emerging Writers programme in 2020. A Sign of Her Own is her first novel, inspired by her experiences of growing up deaf and her family’s history of deafness. The Guardian called A Sign of Her Own: ‘Vivid. Eloquent. Offers insight as well as delight’.

Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Kent and has extensive personal, professional, and academic experience relating to autism. Like her protagonist Sunday in All the Little Bird Hearts, Viktoria is autistic. She has presented her doctoral research internationally, most recently speaking at Harvard University on autism and literary narrative. All the Little Bird Hearts was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023.

Rachel Genn is an artist and filmmaker and writer of two novels, the most recent being What You Could Have Won. A former neuroscientist, she was Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the University of Sheffield and is currently a senior lecturer at The Manchester Writing School.

This event will be BSL interpreted