'Utter!' Fiction: Joe Dunthorne, Stewart Home

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£5 pre-booked tickets, on the door: £5 before 7.30pm, £10 lateness tax thereafter

JOE DUNTHORNE
Joe was born and brought up in Swansea. He graduated from UEA's English Literature with Creative Writing BA in 2004 and subsequently achieved a distinction on the Creative Writing (Prose) MA in 2005, when he was awarded the Curtis Brown Award for the best MA dissertation. Submarine, published in February 2008 by Hamish Hamilton, is his first novel. It has been translated into many languages and is being developed for the cinema. In 2008 it was nominated for the Desmond Elliot Prize, and in 2009 for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Wales Book of the Year. Joe is also a widely published poet with a book forthcoming with Faber and has performed at festivals including Hay-on-Wye and Latitude.


STEWART HOME
http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/
Master of the occult and arch wind-up merchant, Stewart Home has found fame as an artist, a philosopher, and a scholar of sedition, though he is probably best known as the author of "sperm and blood" skinhead 'anti-novels', Red London, Pure Mania and Blow Job.

With a career that began in punk rock and blossomed into megalomania, Home has written for The Big Issue, The Independent and Artists Newsletter, edited anthologies of fiction and propaganda, and published a number of theoretical works on art, music, and radical politics. His books have been translated into German, Finnish and Italian, and his debut album, Stewart Home Comes in Your Face (available from Overground Records) is currently taking the Top 40 by stealth.

Home's ongoing concern is the deconstruction of ideology, a quarry he pursues through "fictional" and "non-fictional" spheres. An early involvement with Neoism led to Home's foundation of the "Neoist Alliance", a chimerical organisation which found non-existence no object to self promotion. Much of his work has been published under the names of Karen Elliot and Luther Blissett, "multiple identities" available for adoption by anyone, and his own identity is subject to constant re-invention -- just to keep the rest of us guessing. "Belief is the enemy".

PAID GIG CONTEST:

YOU vote to decide who returns next month for a full-paid slot, from:
ABI PALMER, host of Topolski's Century open mic night, presenting poetic precises of great novels including 1984, set to a cheeky backing beat.
MEGAN BRADBURY, not the Birmingham City council young poet laureate (although it might be fun to put them both on at a night called 'Utter!' Megan Bradburys, or with Claire Pollard and Clare Pollard at 'Utter!' people with the same names), a writer, editorial reader, creative writing tutor and UEA creative writing graduate based in Edinburgh who wowed us with extracts from her dark novel at 'Utter!' in Edinburgh 2009.

Cross Kings, 126 York Way N1 0AZ, 7.30pm start. http://bit.ly/utterfiction