Slipped Skin
Kate Hale
Despite a childhood and early adulthood filled with swimming, snorkelling, and diving in seas around the world, in her twenties, writer Katie Hale developed a terror of being in water. Of putting her face under. Of being out of her depth. This fear persisted for over a decade.
However, through gentle encouragement and guidance from her wife, she has started to overcome it – and to uncover and rediscover a sense of belonging along with this.
Slipped Skin is a film poem exploring this sense of double belonging, through queer identity and the selkie myth. It was filmed on Calgary Beach, during a residency at An Tobar, and was funded by Arts Council England.
About Katie Hale:
Katie Hale is a novelist and poet. In 2021, she won a Northern Debut Award for her poetry collection, White Ghosts, and she is the author of two novels: The Edge of Solitude and My Name is Monster. She is a former MacDowell Fellow, and winner of the Palette Poetry Prize, Munster Chapbook Prize, and Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize. Her short fiction has been longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, and she has undertaken multiple residencies both nationally and internationally. Her most recent work explores landscape and seascape through hybrid forms.