Join writer Saba Sams to celebrate the publication of her first collection of short stories, Send Nudes.
In ten dazzling stories, Saba dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradictions and complexities: growing up too quickly, yet not quickly enough; taking possession of what one can, while being taken possession of; succumbing to societal pressure but also orchestrating that pressure. In conversation for this event, Saba will explore the contemporary young female experience documented in her stories, which capture the intensity of adolescent self-consciousness and fledgling experience.

Her characters are feral yet attentive, fierce yet vulnerable, exploited yet exploitative. Threading between clubs at closing time, pub toilets, drenched music festivals and beach holidays, these unforgettable short stories deftly chart the treacherous terrain of growing up – of intense friendships, of ambivalent mothers, of uneasily blended families, and of learning to truly live in your own body.

With striking wit, originality, and tenderness, join Saba as she celebrates the small victories in a complex, contradictory world that tries to claim each young woman as its own.

'A roiling, raw, gut-punch of a debut collection, best read in one sitting. Sams conveys the suffocation of being and the longing to break free - from parents, partners, children, convention, your own self - in tender, spare prose. I sat motionless for about half an hour after reading them; I can't wait to see what she writes next' Pandora Sykes.