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:4692@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190523T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190523T190000 DTSTAMP:20190327T175806Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/wowfest-citizens-of-nowhere/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: WoWFest: Citizens of Nowhere DESCRIPTION:Citizens of Nowhere\nVenue: Bluecoat\, School Ln\, Liverpool L1 3BX\nTime: 7pm (Doors at 6.30pm)\nTickets: £8/£5 (Students/Over 60's/Un employed)\n\nHow can refugees and migrants be heard in such a hostile envi ronment? What happens after you are displaced? What does it mean to truly belong? Does the story of a refugee finish when asylum is won? Award winni ng authors Jennifer Makumbi and Dina Nayeri discuss migration and refu ge providing insights into resettlement\, identity and community.\n\nDina Nayeri is the author of The Ungrateful Refugee\, one of the most widely shared 2017 Long Reads in The Guardian. Winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts literature grant (2015)\, O. Henry Prize (2015)\, Best American Short Stories (2018) \, and fellowships from the McDowell Colony\, Bogliasco Foundation\, and Y addo. Her stories and essays have been published by The New York Times\, N ew York Times Magazine\, The Guardian\, Los Angeles Times\, New Yorker\, G ranta New Voices\, Wall Street Journal\, and many others. Her debut novel\ ,A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea (2013) was translated into 14 languages. Her second novel\, Refuge (2017) was a New York Times Editors Choice. She h olds a BA from Princeton\, an MBA from Harvard\, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and Teaching Wr iting Fellow.\n\nJennifer Nansubuga Makumbi\, a Ugandan novelist and short story writer\, has a PhD from Lancaster University. Her first novel\, Ki ntu (Oneworld\, 2018)\, won the 2013 and was longlisted for the 2014 Etis alat Prize. She was awarded the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for he r story Manchester Happened\, and her first full story collection by the same name will be published by Oneworld in 2019. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumb i was awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018 to s upport her writing. She lives in Manchester with her husband and son\, and lectures in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.\n>\ ;>\; TICKETS <\;<\;\n\nFor any problems booking tickets or ticketing queries email customerservice@ticketquarter.co.uk or telephone the box office during opening hours on 0344 8000410. The Call centre is open 9am - 9pm Monday - Saturday and 10-5 Sundays and bank holidays. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2019/03/9781786893451-The-Ungrateful-Refugee-e1553709464924.gif LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 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 :53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190331T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR