Past Event
Talks & Debate

Invisible Walls

Mon 17 Dec 2018

Storytelling is rarely imagined without the sound of the telling – and many writers mine from the sonic world to create their work. However, there are writers with access to a different world; a quieter world where things go silent without a dial being turned down. 

How does exclusion from the hearing world – an erasure that happens by actions as simple as loss of eye contact – influence the work of writers who identify as Deaf. Join acclaimed writers Sophie Woolley and Raymond Antrobus as they share their extraordinary work in conversation.

'His monologues are stunning' Kwame Dawes