This episode brings you the recording of an evening of readings with authors Rosie Stockton and Hannah Baer. The event took place at our space in Brussels on the 7th of June 2025. Rosie and Hannah read from their recent work, followed by a conversation with Chloe Chignell.

Find their books here:

https://rile.space/authors/rosie-stockton
https://rile.space/authors/hannah-baer

About the authors

Both Rosie and Hannah are writers whose work engages rigorously with the poetics of desire, and with how language acts as a site that both makes and unmakes relations. 

In different ways, their writing troubles the idea of a coherent, stable, or “good” subject. They approach gender and identity as sites of negotiation, opacity, and play—doing so with a rare mix of clarity, humor, and formal experimentation.

There’s something in both of their work that feels like it emerges from a deeply personal space that’s never fully private: a kind of intimacy that's always entangled with the social. Their writing makes room for contradiction, for not knowing and for desire as its own kind of thinking.

Rosie Stockton is the author of two poetry books Permanent Volta and Fuel. Their poems are full of lyric loops, erotic tension, and deep attention to the structures—both poetic and social—that threaten to both hold and break us.

Hannah Baer is the author of trans girl suicide museum. She writes across genre and form, weaving memoir, criticism, and theory into a writing that is as intellectually cutting as it is emotionally generous.

Credits
Introduction by Chloe Chignell 
This podcast was edited by Ros Del Olmo.
The intro music was composed by Ive Vargas.