BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1366@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161019T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161019T193000 DTSTAMP:20161019T141414Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-good-immigrant-nikesh-s hukla/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: The Good Immigrant -- Nikesh Shukla DESCRIPTION:Join us when writer Nikesh Shukla reads and discusses his accla imed new anthologyThe Good Immigrant. The Good Immigrantbrings together tw enty one British black\, Asian and minority ethnic writers\, poets\, actor s\, journalists and artists to discuss race and immigration in the UK.\n\n Nikesh Shukla will be joined on the night by poet and academic Sandeep Par mar.\n\nBOOK\n\nWriters include Musa Okwonga (poet/broadcaster)\, Chimene Suleyman(poet/columnist)\, Vinay Patel (playwright)\, Bim Adewumni (Buzzfe ed)\, Salena Godden (poet/writer)\, Sabrina Mahfouz (playwright)\, Kieran Yates (journalist)\, Coco Khan (journalist)\, Sarah Sahim (journalist)\, R eni Eddo Lodge (journalist)\, Varaidzo(student)\, Darren Chetty (teacher)\ , Himesh Patel (Tamwar from Eastenders)\, Nish Kumar (comedian)\, Miss L f rom Casting Call Woe (actor)\, Daniel York Loh(playwright and actor)\, Ver a Chok (actor/writer)\, Riz Ahmed (actor/rapper)\, Inua Ellams (poet/playw right) and Wei Ming Kam (writer).\n\n"Unless you have managed to transcend into popular culture\, like Mo Farah\, Nadya Hussain or the other ‘good immigrants’ out there. It’s a bad time to be a bad immigrant. My conv ersation with Musa Okwonga about this led to the very generation of this c ollection. I said I wished there was a book of essays by good immigrants. He reminded of the Chinua Achebe quote\, if you don’t like the story\, w rite your own."Nikes Shukla.\n\nBiography: Nikesh Shukla's debut novel\, C oconut Unlimited\, was published by Quartet Books and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2010 and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2011. Metro described it as 'a riot of cringeworthy moments made real by S hukla's beautifully observed characters and talent for teen banter'. In 20 11 he co-wrote an essay about the London riots for Random House with Kiera n Yates\, Generation Vexed: What the Riots Don't Tell Us About Our Nation' s Youth. In 2013 he released a novella about food with Galley Beggars Pres s\, The Time Machine\, donating his royalties to Roy Castle Lung Cancer Fo undation. The book won Best Novella at the Sabotage Awards.\n\nHis second novel\, Meatspace\, was published by The Friday Project. 'Like Douglas Cou pland's Generation X\,' according to the Guardian\, 'this novel captures a cultural moment.' It's been lauded by the New Statesman\, BBC Radio 4\, t he Independent on Sunday\, and the Daily Mail.\n\nHis short stories have f eatured in Best British Short Stories 2013\, Five Dials\, The Moth Magazin e\, Pen Pusher\, The Sunday Times\, Book Slam\, BBC Radio 4\, First City M agazine and Teller Magazine. He has written for the Guardian\, Esquire\, B uzzfeed\, Vice and BBC 2. He has\, in the past\, been writer in residence for BBC Asian Network and Royal Festival Hall.\n\nIn 2014 he co-wrote Two Dosas\, an award-winning short film starring Himesh Patel. His Channel 4 C omedy Lab Kabadasses aired on E4 and Channel 4 in 2011 and starred Shazad Latif\, Jack Doolan and Josie Long.\n\nHe currently hosts The Subaltern po dcast\, an anti-panel discussion featuring conversations with writers abou t writing. Guests have included Zadie Smith\, Junot Diaz\, Teju Cole\, Jam es Salter\, George Saunders\, Jennifer Egan\, Evie Wyld\, Sam Bain\, Alex Preston\, Colson Whitehead and more. He also co-hosts a podcast with sci-f i writer James Smythe\, Meat Up\, Hulk Out.\nhttp://www.nikesh-shukla.com\ n\nDr Sandeep Parmar is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the Unive rsity of Liverpool. Her research interests are primarily British and Amer ican women’s writing of the early twentieth century\, modernism\, innova tive/avant-garde twentieth-century and twenty-first-century poetry in Eng lish\, and UK poetry and race. Her essay\, 'Not a British Subject: UK Poet ry and Race' appeared in 2015 in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Other publications include: Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern Woman\, a scholarly edition of the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlee s and the Collected Poems of Nancy Cunard (Carcanet Press)\, and two b ooks of her own poetry: The Marble Orchard and Eidolon (the latter is a rewriting of the myth of Helen of Troy in modern America). She has revie wed and written essays for the Guardian\, The Los Angeles Review of Book s\, the Financial Times\, the TLS and the Times Higher Education. Sh e is a BBC New Generation Thinker for 2015 and Co-Director of Liverpool’ s Centre for New and International Writing.\n\nBOOK ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2016/10/the-good-immigrant.jpg LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat:geo :0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20160327T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR