Get free tickets for Author on Author: Kim Newman and Anna Bogutskaya in Conversation

Credits

Total running time

60min

Introduction

This event brings together two of our most prolific voices in the field of film criticism for a wide-ranging conversation on the craft of writing, using their shared interest in horror cinema as a springboard.

Speakers

Anna Bogutskaya is co-creator of the Final Girls film collective and author of the non-fiction works Unlikeable Female Characters and Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us. Previously a film programmer for the Edinburgh Film Festival and BFI Southbank, she is now Head of Screen at SXSW London
Kim Newman is a film critic, film historian and novelist. He is a veteran contributor to Sight and Sound and Empire Magazine (gracing every issue since #1), and he is author of a mountain of books, including the cult cinema tomes Nightmare Movies and Video Dungeon and the series of alternate-history novels, Anno Dracula

Hosted by Helen O’Hara, Editor-At-Large, Empire.

How to book

This event is free and open to those aged 15 and over.

Booking opens on Thursday 2 October at 10am.

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Seating is unallocated unless otherwise stated.