Nat's work on Siddal can be found in Word & Image (Vol. Their debut novel Nettleblack was published by Cipher Press in 2022, with a sequel to follow in 2024. They have also been known to edit, perform in and direct Victorian plays and operas, to the sideburn-stricken bafflement of their audiences. In academical guise, they mostly write about Elizabeth Siddal causing havoc with medieval objects, or horrible geese invading Pre-Raphaelite artworks.
Nat Reeve is a novelist from Gower, currently finishing a PhD in Victorian art, literature and queerness at Royal Holloway, University of London. A delight!” - Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces “Nat Reeve’s debut sizzles and crackles with confidence, offering a timeless tale of LGBTQ people finding family wherever they can. " Nettleblack arrives breathlessly, wholly itself, yet also winding down the strange and brilliant bent lanes previously ridden by Sylvia Townsend Warner and Robert Aickman.” -So Mayer, author of A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing Nettleblack is a subversive and playful ride (with bicycles, rodents and a decadent, Welsh-speaking chwaer) through the perils and joys of finding your place in the world, challenging myths about queerness – particularly transness – as a modern phenomenon, while exploring the practicalities of articulating queer perspectives when you’re struggling for words. Equipped with £50 and a ferret, she is ambushed, robbed, and then rescued by a mysterious organisation run by women – part detective agency, part neighbourhood watch – in which she enlists.
Henry Nettleblack runs away from home to evade her elder sister’s plans to marry her into the aristocracy. If ticket price is a barrier, please email a free ticket.Nat Reeve in conversation with Marie-Luise Kohlke About this Eventġ893. These terms may also feature in the events themselves, alongside explicit language. Please note: Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest have chosen to use reclaimed terms to promote their events. Join us for a night to celebrate these exciting literary experiments, with a fully Queer line up of authors and performers, hosted by Adam Zmith, writer and Fringe!’s literature programmer.įeaturing Nat Reeve’s queer Victorian hero from Nettleblack (Cipher Press, 2022), Nell Stevens’ trans-ing of Chopin ( Briefly, A Delicious Life, 2022) and the 1920s explorers conjured up by Ally Wilkes ( All The White Spaces, 2022), AND performances from Miss Terri Boxx and the dashing Mr Darshe, who will emerge from the lake to give us a hilarious and hormone-sparking performance. In recent years a group of authors have been upending the historical fiction genre by not just representing LGBTQ+ life, but imagining wildly around the possibilities of Queer bodies in Victorian suits or sexual fluidities before electricity.
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