Karen Lord

#bocas2026

Biography

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.

Awards

2008 Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award, 2009 Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award, 2010 Carl Brandon Parallax Award, 2011 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, 2011 William L. Crawford Award, 2012 Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Best Debut)

Years Attended

2012, 2012 Adult's Festival Participant, 2014, 2014 South Festival Participant, 2015, 2015 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2016, 2016 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2020, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2020 Bios & Bookmarks Participant, 2020 BYOBB, 2020 Workshop Facilitator, 2021 Adult's Festival Participant, 2021 Workshop Facilitator, 2022 Bocas UK Tour, 2024 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2024 Featured Speaker

Karen Lord

2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Judge, Author, Judge
Barbados
Events Featuring Karen Lord
2024
Quarrelling With History
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2024
Fantastic Friday: Take Two
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2022
Bocas UK Tour 2022
Bocas UK Tour Event
Event Date: October 26, 2022 @ 8:00 am
United Kingdom
2021
Speculative Fiction Masterclass, with Karen Lord and Tobias Buckell
The Writers Centre, Workshops Event
Workshop Event
Event Date:
2021
Imaginary Homelands: Barbara Lalla & Leone Ross
Festival Programme Event
Event Date:
Online
2020
Back to the future
Big Ideas, Festival Programme, Future Friday Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Online
2020
Bring Your Own Book & Bottle (BYOBB) – September Edition
BYOBB, The Writers Centre Event
Social Event
Event Date:
Online
2020
Bios & Bookmarks: Karen Lord
Bios And Bookmarks Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Facebook Live
2019
Fiction with Nalo Hopkinson and Marlon James
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2019
Time Machine: a big night of literature and music at the Big Black Box
Festival Programme Event
Performance Event
Event Date:
Big Black Box
2016
Brave new worlds
Festival Programme, Words Alive Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2016
New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean
Festival Programme, Words Alive Event
Book Launch Event
Event Date:
De Nu Pub, Woodbrook
2015
Future Friday: Speculative fiction
Festival Programme, Future Friday, Words Alive Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2015
Brave new worlds: how fantasy can fix reality
Big Ideas, Festival Programme, Future Friday Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2015
Speculative fiction masterclass
Festival Programme Event
Workshop Event
Event Date:
2nd Floor Seminar Room
2014
Speculative Fiction
Bocas South Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
SAPA
2014
An introduction to speculative fiction
Bocas South Event
Workshop Event
Event Date:
SAPA
2012
Anxieties of influence: postcolonial writing and literary tradition
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2012
Getting to the end
Festival Programme Event
Workshop Event
Event Date:
1st Floor Seminar Room
2012
Erna Brodber and Karen Lord
Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station