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reading, conversation and performance

Warm your toes with a cabaret of art, literature and desire in celebration of the Erotic Review’s second issue.

Lucy Roeber and Saskia Vogel — the magazine’s editors and your hosts for the evening — are delighted to return to Lettrétage for what will surely be another sizzling event exploring desire in all its forms. (The magazine sold out immediately during the launch of Issue 1; we recommend the ticket that includes the magazine to ensure you get a copy.)

With readings, conversation and performance by

• Agri Ismaïl on the stakes of desire in Kurdistan
• Hanna Nordenhök with a gothic tale of girlhood
• Emily Waddell on erotic Star Wars fan fiction
• Enuma Okoro and Ana Prvački on shunga (Japanese erotic art)
• Jessica Stoya presents The Dress, an artwork on sex work and spirituality

Drinks and dancing to follow.

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AGRI ISMAÏL is a Kurdish author based in Sweden. In January 2024 he published his debut novel Hyper with Chatto & Windus. It is now available in German as Der Wert der Welt (Rowohlt).

HANNA NORDENHÖK has been awarded several major literary honours for her work, both as novelist, poet and essayist. Her novel Caesaria (2020),extracted in issue 2 of the Erotic Review, scooped Swedish Radio’s Literary Prize and was shortlisted for Vi’s Literature Prize; it is available in English from Héloïse Press.

ENUMA OKORO is a Nigerian-American writer, speaker, curator, theorist and facilitator. She is a weekend columnist for The Financial Times where she writes, ‘The Art of Life’ about the intersection of art, culture, philosophy, ecology, contemplative-spirituality, and how we live.

ANA PRVAČKI practises many kinds of cross pollination and cross disciplines. She was trained in music, theatre, visual art and beekeeping. An avid collector of Shunga (Japanese erotica) she enjoys sharing her collection and research. In her free time she likes to take care of her skin and walk in the woods around a lake.

LUCY ROEBER is the editor of the Erotic Review and the director of Erotic Review Publishing Ltd. She lives in London.

SASKIA VOGEL is deputy editor of the Erotic Review. She is an award-winning translator of over two-dozen Swedish language books, including Hanna Nordenhök’s Caesaria. Her novel Permission has been translated into 6 languages. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she lives in Berlin.

JESSICA STOYA began performing in adult films in 2006, began writing about the adult industry and sexuality in 2012, and began directing adult films in 2014. She lives in Belgrade, where she practises intimacy coaching and–occasionally–art.

EMILY WADDELL is a Bristol native and Berlin transplant. A science-fiction and fantasy writer in her head and sometimes on paper. A journalist in a previous life, she has written for Crack magazine and Buzzfeed. She's currently writing her debut novel while maladaptive daydreaming.

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