Friday, 2 November 2018
17:00-19:00
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
The author of Funny Peculiar and Golddigger Hilary McCollum is coming to Manchester Metropolitan University to talk about her work on her novel about the suffragettes.
Hilary McCollum has been a feminist activist for more than 25 years, particularly on the issue of violence against women and children. She is also involved in combating other forms of discriminatory violence including homophobic and racist attacks, and violence and hostility against disabled people.
‘I was an obsessive reader from an early age and wrote a lot as a child but when I moved to England, aged 19, I lost my voice. It was ten years before I found it again, when my partner of the time bought me a weekend writing course for my 30th birthday. It got me writing again. On and off to begin with. But then I joined a weekly creative writing group in Highgate and began writing my first book, Funny Peculiar.’
Since moving back to northwest Ireland, Hilary became a founding member of Foyle lesbian and bisexual women’s writing group and northwest LGBT playwrights, and stands as a board member of the Outburst Queer Arts Festival.
Join us for this free event as part of our celebration of the centenary of [some] women gaining the right to vote.
Event contact Dr Kate Cook · k.cook@mmu.ac.uk