How I Learned to Swim

<p><b>Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024</b><br><br><i>Grieving is weird and expensive.</i><br><br>Jamie can’t swim. Fuelled by guilt and a need to mend her broken family, at 30 years old, she''s taking on her biggest fear — the ocean.<br><br>With the help of a chipper swim instructor, a shady spiritual guide, and one cathartic crab sandwich, she questions, ''How many lengths does it take to wash away regret?''<br><br>Brilliantly witty, deeply heartfelt, this play explores what lies beneath the surface of the Black diasporic relationship to water. Somebody Jones’s searing debut <i>How I Learned to Swim</i> is ''funny with fear, liberating with grief'' (<i>Fringe Review</i>) and impossible to walk away from unchanged.<br><br>This edition was published to coincide with the Prentice Productions show at Summerhall’s Roundabout, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2024.</p>