Who Wants to Live Forever?

What happens when a novelist and a biologist team up to tackle the question of immortality?

Join speculative fiction author Hanna Thomas Uose (Who Wants to Live Forever) and biologist-writer Simon Watt for a mind-bending conversation that blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction. Together, they’ll explore alternate realities, scientific possibilities, and how creative writing can help readers to connect with big ideas.

Their discussion will be chaired by writer and artist Stevie Mackenzie-Smith.

All attendees need a ticket.

Tickets £12, booking essential
For ages 18+ only
National Centre for Writing
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About Hanna Thomas Uose

Hanna is a British Japanese writer living in London. In 2023, she completed the MA in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia. In 2022, she won the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour and was shortlisted for the Orion/DHA Space to Write Project. She was also selected for the Asian Women Writers mentorship programme.

Hanna has spent the last sixteen years working in advocacy and campaigns with organisations such as 350.org, Free Tibet, Greenpeace International, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Level Up, Liberty, and UN Global Pulse.

About Simon Watt

Simon is a biologist, writer, science communicator, comedian, TV presenter, trainer, consultant and artist. He runs Ready Steady Science, a company which takes science-based performances into schools, museums, theatres and festivals, and the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, a comedy night with a conservation twist. He is also the co-creator and host of the science panel show podcast, Level Up Human.

About Stevie Mackenzie-Smith

Stevie is a writer, artist, and creative facilitator. Her work explores how we live and work, creative pleasure, and daily life. She is writing a book about the nature of work, supported by Arts Council England. It’s a personal interrogation of jobs, leisure, her childhood in a caravan in Somerset and artists performing capitalist refusal. Before this, she wrote for newspapers and magazines. She runs retreats for writers in Suffolk, and has worked with Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich Book Festival and Suffolk Libraries. She lives in Norwich, UK.