AWW21 Lateral Histories - Chris Flynn and Laura Elvery

Can works of fiction inform us more effectively than non-fiction?
Chris Flynn and Laura Elvery’s audacious works illuminate history
and offer critiques of today. Chris’s fantastical novel Mammoth
is narrated by the fossilised remains of a 13,000 year old
wise-cracking mammoth. Each of the twenty short stories in Laura
Elvery’s collection Ordinary Matter is inspired by a Nobel
Prize-winning female scientist. With their lateral approach to
history, these unlikely starting points have resulted in richly
rewarding and wildly imaginative outcomes.


Chaired by Danielle Clode