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Ashes to Admin: 1-2-1 with Evie King

What’s really on your mind about death and dying?

Come and ask Evie! She’s ready to talk to you 1-2-1 – and is likely to have an answer for you.

Evie King is a council worker, writer and former stand-up comedian whose short-form writing has appeared in New Humanist, Guardian Comment is Free, BBC Comedy and Viz Comic. In 2023 she published Ashes to Admin, a book about her job arranging council funerals for people with nobody willing or able to make arrangements. It won the 2025 ASDS award for outstanding and original books in death studies and was selected for the London Review of Books’s ‘100 Books to Navigate the Next 20 Years’ anniversary celebration. Her second book, Get Ahead of Being Dead, was released by Short Books in June 2026. She is an ambassador for missing persons and cold case charity Locate International and heads up the UK training programme for council funeral workers.

Ashes to Admin  is programmed as part of Good Grief Weston. Click here to find out more.