Bog People: Folk Horror with A.K. Blakemore and Salena Godden

Name: Bog People: Folk Horror with A.K. Blakemore and Salena Godden
Start: 2025-10-25T15:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-25T16:30:00+01:00
Location: National Centre for Writing

Authors Salena Godden and A.K. Blakemore

Sat 25 Oct

4.30pm - 5.30pm : National Centre for Writing

Fiction Fantasy & Horror Politics & People

Wheelchair access
Hearing loop
Toilets
Disabled toilets

Dragon Hall, 115-123 King Street, Norwich, NR1 1QE

Ten authors unleash dark and delirious short stories in Bog People, an anthology of folk horror.

Programmed by National Centre for Writing

Ten authors unleash dark and delirious short stories in Bog People, a new anthology of folk horror that celebrates British working-class culture and history. The collection features original work from some of the UK’s most compelling literary voices: A.K. Blakemore, Daniel Draper, Emma Glass, Mark Colbourne, Mark Stafford, Hollie Starling, Jenn Ashworth, Natasha Carthew, Salena Godden and Tom Benn.

Join contributors A.K. Blakemore and Salena Godden for a conversation about the eerie allure of folk tales — how they unsettle, unearth, and endure – and why working-class writers may be best placed to recognise the real monsters haunting our green and pleasant land.

This event is followed by book sales and signing with The Book Hive.

Tickets: £12

"A masterful collection that captures the raw, unsettling essence of folk horror and its working-class roots."

Maxine Peake

"The working class understand horror, often sharing its postcode. They know about crossed knives on the tea-table, and hagstones, and the people in the puddles. Bog People is a thrilling cache of unearthed diamonds, black, brilliant and beautifully cut, none of them rough, born of the lower strata where the pressures are greater. Astonishing and long overdue, you really need to read this."

Alan Moore

Salena Godden

Salena Godden's debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death (2021) won the Indie Book Awards for Fiction and the People’s Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards and the Gordon Burn Prize. Her new full poetry collection With Love, Grief and Fury and literary childhood memoir Springfield Road - A Poets Childhood Revisited were published in May 2024.

A.K. Blakemore

A.K. Blakemore is a poet and novelist based in North Essex.

Her novels include The Manningtree Witches (Granta, 2021) – winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize for Best Debut Novel, and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and Society of Authors Ondaatje Prize – and The Glutton (Granta, 2023), shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.

Her full-length poetry collections are Fondue (Offord Road Books, 2018) and Humbert Summer (Eyewear, 2015).

Her work has been widely published and anthologised, appearing in Poetry Review, The London Review of Books, The Guardian and The White Review, among others.

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