Friday 13th October
6:30-9pm
Reverse Engineering Live: Join Amber Medland and Iphgenia Baal as they discuss their ideas on writing fiction. Looking at the inspiration and decisions that formed their career-defining short stories, Amber and Iphgenia will explore what is important in fiction with Tom Conaghan, the editor of the Reverse Engineering series.
Iphgenia Baal is a writer and publisher. She is the author of The Hardy Tree, Gentle Art, Merced Es Benz, Death & Facebook and Man Hating Psycho, as well as a wide range of print and audio ephemera. She also runs AKA Books, and has recently published a volume of poetry by Sarah Jane Baker. Her work has been described as “a marrying of politics and ass”. Born in London, she is now based in Glasgow.
Amber Medland is a writer, whose forthcoming book Attention Seeker: The Truth About ADHD will be published by Dialogue Books in spring 2025. Having read English Literature at Cambridge University, she studied for an MFA at Columbia University where she was awarded a Teaching Fellowship. Her debut novel Wild Pets was published by Faber in 2021. Since then, she has written for various publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review and the London Review of Books.