More Than A Literary Festival

Karen Lord

Karen Lord

Karen Lord

Author

Barbadian writer Dr. Karen Lord is the author, most recently, of The Blue, Beautiful World, longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Redemption in Indigo, which won the William L. Crawford Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Her other works include the science fiction novels The Best of All Possible Worlds and The Galaxy Game, and the crime-fantasy novel Unraveling. She edited the anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean.

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Old Fire Station, NALIS

Quarrelling With History

How are conflicts and tensions of the present — from racism to war in the Middle East, xenophobia to climate change — rooted in injustices of the past? And what is the work of the creative imagination in envisioning better and more just futures? Christina Sharpe (In the Wake, Ordinary Notes), Karen Lord (The Blue, Beautiful World), and Myriam J.A. Chancy (Harvesting Haiti) join the debate, moderated by D. Alissa Trotz

How are conflicts and tensions of the present — from racism to war in the Middle East, xenophobia to climate change — rooted in injustices of the past? And what is the work of the creative imagination in envisioning better and more just futures? Christina Sharpe (In the Wake, Ordinary Notes), Karen Lord (The Blue, Beautiful World), and Myriam J.A. Chancy (Harvesting Haiti) join the debate, moderated by D. Alissa Trotz

10:30 am - 11:30 am
Old Fire Station

Fantastic Friday: Take Two

SFF writers Karen Lord (The Blue, Beautiful World, longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction) and Premee Mohamed (No One Will Come Back for Us) kick off our special day of events focused on Caribbean speculative fiction and fantasy, with readings and conversation with Akilah White.

In partnership with the J.B. Fernandes Memorial Trust.

SFF writers Karen Lord (The Blue, Beautiful World, longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction) and Premee Mohamed (No One Will Come Back for Us) kick off our special day of events focused on Caribbean speculative fiction and fantasy, with readings and conversation with Akilah White.

In partnership with the J.B. Fernandes Memorial Trust.

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