Brandon O’Brien

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Biography

Brandon O’Brien is a writer, performance poet, and teaching artist from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing, the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions, and the 2020 Ignyte Award for Best in Speculative Poetry, and is published in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Strange Horizons, Reckoning, and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, among others. He is the former poetry editor of the Hugo Award-winning magazine FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. His debut poetry collection, Can You Sign My Tentacle?, available from Interstellar Flight Press, is the winner of the 2022 Elgin Award.

Years Attended

2015 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2016 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2016 South Festival Participant, 2018 Children’s Festival Participant, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2022 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2024 Adult’s Festival Participant

Brandon O’Brien

Author
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Brandon O’Brien
2023
Writing Speculative Fiction, with Brandon O'Brien
NGC Bocas Youth Fest Event
Workshop Event
Event Date: October 20, 2023 @ 11:00 am
DCFA Building, Lecture Room 2
2023
Take Three: Andre Bagoo, Adam Lowe, and Padraig Regan
Festival Programme Event
Poetry Event
Event Date: April 30, 2023 @ 1:00 pm
Old Fire Station
2022
Required Reading: Black American Refugee and Can You Sign My Tentacle?
Festival Programme Event
Event Date: May 1, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
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