Beyond Misery Porn: Working-Class Memoir Terri White and Cash Carraway

Join internationally acclaimed writers Terri White and Cash Carraway in conversation as they discuss their work, life on the margins, memoir-writing and the dangers of what is termed ‘Misery Porn’.

Terri White is an author, editor and journalist based in Manchester. Her first book, Coming Undone: A Memoir (Canongate) was published in the UK in July 2020 and the US in September 2021. Coming Undone was optioned for television by Bad Wolf, the production company behind His Dark Materials and I Hate Suzie. She contributed to My Old Man, a book of essays on fathers (Canongate) and her writing – focusing on class, mental health and violence against women – has been published in British Vogue, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Big Issue and Elle. She has two decades’ experience in magazine publishing and was most recently Editor-in-Chief of Empire magazine and prior to that, Editor-in-Chief of Time Out New York. She is an RSA Fellow and BAFTA member. She is currently working on her first novel and second non-fiction book.

 

Cash Carraway is an Irish screenwriter, playwright, and author. She is the Creator, Writer, and Executive Producer of Rain Dogs, an eight-part BBC comedy-drama starring Daisy May Cooper, made by Killing Eve producers Sid Gentle Films. Her award-winning play Refuge Woman completed a sold-out 20-date UK tour and is the only ever theatre production to be nominated for a British Journalism Award. She has a number of film and television projects in development with major broadcasters and is the author of the bestselling book Skint Estate, published by Penguin Random House.

Image credit: Becky Glover, 2019

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