York Centre for Writing Reading Series: Kimberly Campanello and Hasib Hourani

Kimberly Campanello, author of An Interesting Detail (Bloomsbury, 2025), will be in person.
Hasib Hourani, author of rock flight (Prototype, 2024), will join remotely. The event will be chaired by Caleb Klaces from York Centre for Writing.

There will be readings and discussion, including the opportunity to ask questions.

'An Interesting Detail is full of returns, "the costumes and repetitions available: to the speaker – to any of us – in a new place; the forms, the situated patterns of being and doing we borrow from the past and resurrect here, for good or ill.' Fran Lock

'Be ready to be transformed by Hourani’s diasporic anticolonial poetics.' Don Mee Choi

About Kimberly Campanello
Kimberly Campanello's latest poetry collection An Interesting Detail is published by Bloomsbury Poetry. Her debut novel Use the Words You Have releases in June 2025. Kimberly is also the author of the poetry-object and durational performance MOTHERBABYHOME (zimZalla, 2019). She is an inaugural Markievicz Award winner from Ireland's Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for (S)worn State(s) (The Salvage Press, 2024) with Dimitra Xidous and Annemarie Ní Churreáin and an Arts Council Ireland Literature Project Award for sorry that you were not moved (2022), an interactive digital poetry publication in conversation with Calvino’s Invisible Cities created in collaboration with Christodoulos Makris and Fallow Media. Campanello is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.

About Hasib Hourani
Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator living on unceded Wangal Country. Hasib's debut book, rock flight was released with Giramondo (AU) and Prototype (UK) in 2024, and with New Directions (US) in 2025.

About The York Centre for Writing Reading Series
The York Centre for Writing Reading Series is a programme of free, public literary events based at the hub for events, projects and publications at York St John University. Centring writers and writing typically underrepresented by the literary mainstream, community is at the heart of our ethos, and our events create opportunities to meet fellow literature lovers and build creative networks across York and beyond.