Join us and Brian Willems in conversation with Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
Wednesday 14th October 2026 - 6.30 (Doors) for 7pm discussion. :)
The Surviving Cells - Present-day Minneapolis. Dr Ana Jovanovic, oncologist, goes against the advice of her hospital's tumour board and schedules her patient Jonathan for exploratory surgery. When a tragic event sends the doctor’s life into a tailspin, she takes a sudden sabbatical. Now sharply aware of her own mortality, the doctor is confronted with decisions about quality of life and quality of death.
"The intricacies of The Surviving Cells feel simultaneously painful and unnerving while its cinematic jump cuts are compelling and perhaps liberating. ‘What is actually scary about the highway is that parts of it are familiar, like the names of the exits, but the thing itself is strange.’" - Rachel Cattle, author of Uh Huh Her
Brian Willems - was born in Minnesota, and now lives and works in Croatia, teaching literature at the University of Split. Brian’s poetry and prose have appeared in The Antioch Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Things Magazine, Prague Literary Review
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou - Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou is a writer, teacher and editor based in London. She has a PhD in English Literature from UCL, an MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies from King’s College, London, a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge, and a Diploma in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Arts. She currently teaches Global and Black British Literature courses at City Lit and has taught in schools, community groups and at UCL. Her writing is published by Prototype, Elephant Magazine, Wallpaper*, Art Monthly, The London Magazine and many others, and she has recently written exhibition essays for Victoria Miro, theCOLAB and Cable Depot. Hannah regularly moderates arts talks for bookshops, festivals and Fane Online.