Join us to drink modernist cocktails, celebrate this year’s shortlist and hear the judges announce this year’s winner. Extracts from all five shortlisted entries will be performed or showcased. To RSVP please visit https://2017modernistparty.eventbrite.co.uk

Launch of the 2017 Ivan Juritz Prize Dexter Dalwood and Eimear McBride in conversation with Lara Feigel Free discussion followed by a drinks reception To book please visit https://2017prize.eventbrite.co.uk 100 tickets reserved for students eligible to enter the Ivan Juritz Prize

Prize discussion with Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Leo Butler. A number of contemporary writers of fiction see themselves as interacting with, or even extending, modernism. But what about contemporary playwriting? The work of modernist writers such as Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter still exerts a strong influence over theatre, but does that make contemporary theatre modernist? … Continued

Prize launch with Ali Smith and Vesna Goldsworthy. Acclaimed novelists Ali Smith and Vesna Goldsworthy will explore the influence of modernist literature on their own work and interrogate what it might mean to be influenced by modernism.  Is modernism more a period of early-twentieth century art or a set of styles?  If the modernist novel … Continued

Prize launch with Rachel Cusk and Will Self. Acclaimed novelists Rachel Cusk and Will Self explore the influence of modernist literature on their own work, launching the 2015 Competition for Creative Responses to Modernism Rachel Cusk is the author of eight novels: Saving Agnes, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, The Temporary, The Country … Continued