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Naomi Booth: raw content

Talk

This event has been rescheduled, the new time and date is shown below.

Event date
Wednesday 29 April 2026, 6pm to 8pm
Location
In-person only
Room SLB/118, Spring Lane Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Audience
Open to alumni, staff, students, the public
Admission
Free admission, booking required

Event details

Writers at York 

Please note a change of date/time/venue from that previously advertised.

Join us for a reading from author Naomi Booth, and conversation about her latest novel raw content. Naomi Booth’s first work of fiction, The Lost Art of Sinking, emerged from her PhD on the literary history of swooning. She has since published three novels (raw contentExit Management, and Sealed), which have been books of the year in the Guardian and the White Review. Her stories have been listed for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and the Galley Beggars Short Story Prize, and her collection, Animals at Night, won the Edge Hill Prize 'Reader's Choice' award. Naomi grew up in West Yorkshire and now lives in York. She is a Professor of English Studies and Director of Creative Writing at Durham University.

Venue details

Wheelchair accessible

Hearing loop