On Friday 12 May, from 14.30-16.00, we’ll be welcoming four leading young women and nonbinary writers to St Hilda’s for the event ‘Imagining the Impossible: Four Writers on Feminist Futures’. The writers featured are all award-winning and will be reading from their work and discussing how the radical aspects of their practice helps us to think about better futures beyond now.

• VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY whose work has appeared widely in publications including The White Review, the London Review of Books, and The Atlantic. She is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, and her critically acclaimed debut poetry collection, QUIET, won the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize

• SUHAIYMAH MANZOOR-KHAN is a performance poet and activist whose work disrupts assumptions about history, race, violence and knowledge. She is the author of Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia and the poetry collection Postcolonial Banter; a co-author of A FLY Girl’s Guide to University; and a contributor to the anthologies Cut from the Same Cloth? and I Refuse to Condemn.

• EMILY MERCER (chair, they/them) is the Editor and Publishing Director of Wasafiri, Britain’s leading magazine of international contemporary writing and criticism.

• YARA RODRIGUES FOWLER is a Granta Best Young British Novelist. Her first novel, Stubborn Archivist, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 and the Desmond Elliott Prize 2019. Yara was named one of The Observer’s ‘hottest-tipped’ debut novelists of 2019 and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019.