Presenters
Karen Lord
Writer
Barbadian novelist and research consultant Dr Karen Lord is the author of Redemption in Indigo, winner of the 2008 Frank Collymore Literary Award, the 2011 William L. Crawford Award, and the 2011 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. Her other works include the science fiction duology 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, and has co-authored research on development and on youth employment with the University of the West Indies for the UNDP and the Caribbean Development Bank.
Presentations
- Writing for the World: Explaining Real and Unreal Settings to a Global Audience | 11:45am - 1:00pm Saturday Oct 22, 2022
- Speculative Fiction in Caribbean Literature | 2:30pm - 3:45pm Friday Oct 21, 2022
- Panel: Science Fiction and Fantasy: Where Do I Start? | 4:15pm - 5:30pm Saturday Oct 22, 2022