Akilah White
Speaker
Akilah White is a Jamaican freelance media critic and beta reader living a Yard. Her writing is in several places including The Bad Form Review and the anthology Divergent Terror: At the Crossroads of Queerness and Horror edited by W. Dale Jordan (Off Limits Press). For regular book musings and Don’t Cyare Gyal radiance, follow her on Instagram at ifthisisparadise.
10:30 am
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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.