Lex Croucher, a Nero Award-shortlisted, New York Times, Indie & USA Today bestselling author who is also an alumna of the University’s English department, will be speaking at Writers in Conversation on Tuesday 29 April, 19:30 at MAST Studios.

Tickets are free for University staff and students. Put the code LEXUNI25 into the Offer Code box at top right corner of the booking page – for non-UoS attendees, the tickets are ?6.

The author of ‘Gwen & Art Are Not in Love’ (2023) and ‘Not for the Faint at Heart (2024), Croucher will be interviewed by novelist and BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 principal teaching fellow Rebecca Smith to discuss their work.

Lex Croucher grew up in Surrey, reading a lot of books and making friends with strangers on the internet, and now lives in London. With a background in social media and NGOs, Lex now writes historical-ish rom-coms and fantasy for both adults and teenagers. They earned their BA English at University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 and went on to win the UK’s Young Adult (YA) Book Prize 2024 with ‘Gwen and Art Are Not in Love’, a queer YA romance novel.

Writers in Conversation is directed by English associate professor and novelist Carole Burns and sponsored by the English department.