Thursday 2 February, 7pm

Dulwich Books
6 Croxted Road, London SE21 8NH

FREE

Readings followed by Q&A

To open their Indie Presses series, Dulwich Books welcome London-based writers Gemma Seltzer and Tom Chivers.

Gemma will be reading from and discussing her book Speak to Strangers, which began life as a daily, interactive blog project, meeting one hundred strangers in one hundred London days, and recording the encounters in funny, enigmatic hundred-word pieces, treading the line between short story and prose poem.

Tom Chivers is the publisher of Penned in the Margins and an acclaimed poet, with several collections to his name, as well as Stress Fractures, a collection of essays on poetry and City State, an anthology of London Poetry. His work often draws on the capital, its history, topography and the ways our interactions with the city are shaped by technology and modernity. He will read from How to Build a City (Salt Publishing, 2009), and some new work.