Who Wants to Live Forever?

Tickets for Who Wants to Live Forever? are on sale via National Centre for Writing. Book online at nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk

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.

Tickets £12, booking essential
For ages 18+ only
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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 In 2022, she won the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour and was shortlisted for the Orion/DHA Space to Write Project.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.