{"id":1244,"date":"2017-11-08T08:49:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T08:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2017-11-08T08:51:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T08:51:02","slug":"speaking-at-london-review-bookshop-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":"Speaking at London Review Bookshop (and other news)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m speaking at the launch of Magma 69 at London Review Bookshop on 17 November. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/magma-issue-69-launch-the-deaf-issue-tickets-39649551877?aff=erelexpmlt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">book tickets online.<\/a>\u00a0I will be talking about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fakeinterpreterblog.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fake Interpreter.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently won the silver award for my short story, Angel Underground, at the Creative Future Literary Awards. The story is published in the anthology, Important Nothings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1253\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"sophie hugs author kit de wall and looks pleased\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brilliant My Name is Leon author, Kit De Waal, presented the award and I was extremely thrilled to meet her!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m developing a new one-person show (the title keeps changing, but at the moment it is AUGMENTED). Here I am performing at Battersea Arts Centre&#8217;s scratch night (thanks to DH Ensemble for programming me at this showcase).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1262\" style=\"width: 2400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AugmentedBACscratch.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie performs on stage with interpreter and captions.\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AugmentedBACscratch.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AugmentedBACscratch-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AugmentedBACscratch-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AugmentedBACscratch-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performing at BAC. Photo by David Monteith Hodge. SLI Rob Troy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m doing another scratch at ARC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/arconline.co.uk\/whats-on\/artist-development-theatre-dance\/arcade-platform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ARCADE<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>I will also be reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/stratfordeast.com\/whats-on\/all-shows\/priority-seat-cabaret-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Priority Seat Cabaret <\/a>at Gerry&#8217;s in Stratford on 14 November.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m speaking at the launch of Magma 69 at London Review Bookshop on 17 November. You can book tickets online.\u00a0I will be talking about\u00a0The Fake Interpreter.\u00a0 I recently won the silver award for my short story, Angel Underground, at the Creative Future Literary Awards. The story is published in the anthology, Important Nothings. I&#8217;m developing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/?p=1244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaking at London Review Bookshop (and other news).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSgAb-k4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiewoolley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}