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SUMMARY:Establishing a Relational Fraternity
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”40″ mobile=”40″][vc_single_image image=”10710″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” el_class=”” link=”https://www.trobadescamus.com/en/home/”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”30″ mobile=”30″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \n\n\nFraternity. Poetics of connection\n\n\n\nIn 2026\, the Trobades & Premis Mediterranis Albert Camus will return to Menorca\, staying true to our calling to be a space where critical thought and contemporary creation come together. \nThis season revolves around a concept we believe must urgently be reclaimed –and at the same time reimagined: fraternity. Rather than approaching it as a personal\, abstract or rhetorical value\, we want to activate it as an ethical\, collective and everyday bond—one capable of bringing us together in an age defined by individuality and fragmentation. \nWe will explore this idea and redefine it together as we celebrate our tenth edition. Ten years in which all of us—team\, guests\, audiences and institutions—have built this Camusian home. Ten years spent weaving bonds and nurturing a spirit of community. Ten years guided by Camus’s light: to understand ourselves more deeply\, to see others more clearly\, and to forge a stronger sense of “us\,” embracing the essence of Camus’s rebellion: “I rebel\, therefore we are.” \nWe are aware that the term fraternity carries the weight of colonial history\, nationalism and patriarchy. This is why it feels essential to reframe it for the 21st century\, explicitly embracing sorority and other forms of connection that unite us. We therefore propose envisioning\, instead of an exclusive fraternity\, an ethic of responsibility towards the other. We wish to awaken in ourselves a form of fraternity that is not universalist but relational\, shaped by differences and frictions—as Édouard Glissant envisioned. Only then can we rewrite our worlds and relearn how to live with the world in its broadest sense: not only with other human beings\, but also with nature\, with dead languages\, with those who are no longer here. \nThe quiet solidarity Camus called for invites us to imagine a poetics of connection\, of care\, of recognizing each other’s vulnerability—to restore fraternity as an ethical commitment to see and support the other\, whoever they may be\, in their dignity and fragility. This is a bond without a shared identity but grounded in a shared responsibility: to stand together against injustice\, to create meaning together without erasing difference. \nIn this tenth edition\, we invoke a fraternity that no longer needs nations or flags. A fraternity without borders\, without uniforms\, without exclusions. A fraternity that welcomes silenced voices\, absent bodies\, broken languages. A fraternity as a commitment to hold together what has been separated\, torn apart\, so that our longing may endure\, both to take flight anew and to return\, once again\, here\, to Menorca. \n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=””] \n\n\nEstablishing a Relational Fraternity\n17:00 – 18:00 | Saturday\, 9 May 2026\nSala Polivalent Albert Camus\, Sant Lluís\nMohamed Bourouissa & Lauren Beukes \n\n\n\nThis conversation focuses on the thought of Édouard Glissant\, and above all on how to articulate and redefine fraternity in postcolonial and contemporary terms. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”30″ mobile=”30″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][gsf_button title=”Get Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” el_class=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trobadescamus.com%2Fen%2Fshop%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:Trobades & Premis Mediterranis Albert Camus\, Menorca\, Trobades & Premis Mediterranis Albert Camus\, Menorca
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SUMMARY:Eastercon 76
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”40″ mobile=”40″][vc_single_image image=”10150″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://easterconbelfast.org/”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”30″ mobile=”30″][vc_column_text] \n\n\nWelcome to Belfast!\nWe are delighted to be here. Bringing Eastercon to a new city for the first time is a big deal for us\, and it’s been a lot of work negotiating and getting here. We are grateful for the support of the Eastercon teams from 2022\, 2023 and 2024 who have all actively supported and helped us get here. \nEastercon is the annual British science fiction convention that takes place every Easter weekend. Run by volunteers for all those who love Science Fiction and Fantasy\, it features panels\, workshops\, talks\, an art show and a dealer’s room selling books and other items. There are rooms for gaming\, crafting or just chilling out. Events range from serious science to the very silly indeed! Come and join us. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”30″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”40″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion title_tag=”h5″ section_title_tag=”h6″ active_section=”0″ title=”Friday 18 April 2025″][vc_tta_section title=”12:30 BST | Writing The Body” tab_id=”1744623018263-d958ff07-d048″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744623383922{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nWriting The Body\n12:30 BST \nHilton – Lagan B \nLauren Beukes\, Benjamin Cain\, Cécile Cristofari\, Aliette de Bodard and Kate Towner (moderator) \nBodies are unique\, and everyone has one. The panel will discuss how to write physical experiences well\, including those you might not have experience with personally\, such as childbirth or sex with an alien\, writing different body types respectfully and avoiding stigmatising language\, and matching the bodies you are writing to the world\, society\, and character surrounding them.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”14:00 BST | Morally Grey Mothers” tab_id=”1744623018277-a5469d89-ae4d”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744623956726{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nMorally Grey Mothers\n14:00 BST \nHilton – Lagan B \nLauren Beukes\, Annabel Campbell\, CL Hellisen\, shauna lawless and Catriona Silvey (moderator) \nFiction tends to have three versions of motherhood: beatific\, abusive\, or dead. But reality rarely fits neatly into these categories\, and fiction is increasingly breaking out of them\, with mothers not only getting more three-dimensional but taking centre stage in their own stories. The panel will discuss what makes more interesting stories about motherhood\, and their favourite complex mother characters.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”15:30 BST | Opening Ceremony” tab_id=”1744623860461-404a1612-13ae”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744624027480{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nOpening Ceremony\n15:30 BST \nICC – Hall 1 A \nLauren Beukes\, James Bacon\, Derek Landy\, Ian McDonald\, Jeannette Ng\, Rebecca Roanhorse\, William Simpson\, Tommy Ferguson \nWelcome to Eastercon and our official opening ceremony. Let’s get this convention started![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”17:00 BST | Reading: Lauren Beukes” tab_id=”1744623896356-ec85e56e-544b”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744624044419{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nReading: Lauren Beukes\n17:00 BST \nICC Boardroom 1 – 2 \nLauren Beukes \nGuest of Honour Lauren Beukes reads from her work.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_tta_accordion title_tag=”h5″ section_title_tag=”h6″ active_section=”0″ title=”Saturday 19 April 2025″][vc_tta_section title=”11:00 BST | Switching Genres as an Author” tab_id=”1744625077117-cd1867fd-19d3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744625337253{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nSwitching Genres as an Author\n11:00 BST \nHilton – Lagan A \nLauren Beukes\, Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne\, Catriona Silvey\, Emily Tesh and David Wake (moderator) \nJen Williams has kept her name. Iain Banks added an M.\, as did Joanne Harris. Nora Roberts is J. D. Robb\, and Megan Lindholm even wrote a collection with Robin Hobb. Writers love moving between genres\, but sometimes it isn’t as easy as just writing another book. What are the complexities of moving between genres? What is the learning curve\, and the attractions? And what can authors bring from one genre to another as they shift focus?[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”12:30 BST | Memory and Grief in Spec Fic” tab_id=”1744625077147-b268a802-859d”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744625322930{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nMemory and Grief in Spec Fic\n12:30 BST \nHilton – Lagan A \nLauren Beukes\, Jean Bürlesk\, Aliette de Bodard\, Everina Maxwell and Dan Walsh (moderator) \nSpeculative fiction tells stories with epic stakes\, and that includes life and death. But for every death\, some live on\, and lives leave legacies of grief and memory for those left behind. This panel will examine those legacies\, and the ways that mourning\, grief\, and memory of the lost are represented in speculative fiction\, from funerary practices to personal remembrances.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”14:00 BST | In Conversation – Guest of Honour Lauren Beukes” tab_id=”1744625077167-25530127-f910″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744625305198{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nIn Conversation – Guest of Honour Lauren Beukes\n14:00 BST \nICC – Hall 1 A \nLauren Beukes and Samuel Poots \nGuest of Honour Lauren Beukes in conversation with Sam Poots.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”15:30 BST | The Point Is To Change It: Science Fiction as Activism” tab_id=”1744625077187-5d798872-43e3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744625418437{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nThe Point Is To Change It: Science Fiction as Activism\n15:30 BST \nHilton – Lagan B \nLauren Beukes\, KEN MACLEOD\, El McInerney (moderator)\, Farah Mendlesohn\, Stephen Oram and Smuzz \nStories of the future and of alternate worlds have acted as inspirations\, warnings\, and critiques of society in the hands of writers. They have pointed out inequalities\, extrapolated future disasters from present (in)actions\, and presented dramatic improvements. But does that translate into the real world\, and social and political change? Can science fiction change the world beyond the pages of the book or the edges of the screen?[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”17:00 BST | Table Talk: Lauren Beukes” tab_id=”1744625424760-99192067-ad34″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744625486739{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nTable Talk: Lauren Beukes\n17:00 BST \nICC Boardroom 2 – 2 \nLauren Beukes \nJoin our Guest of Honour\, Lauren Beukes\, for an hour of cosy & casual conversation![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_tta_accordion title_tag=”h5″ section_title_tag=”h6″ active_section=”0″ el_class=”” title=”Sunday 20 April 2025″][vc_tta_section title=”12:30 BST | Autographing: Lauren Beukes” tab_id=”1744625495223-e85c8699-61ee”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744625570322{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nAutographing: Lauren Beukes\n12:30 BST \nICC – Hall C&D \nLauren Beukes \nGuest of Honour Lauren Beukes signs[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”14:00 BST | Down The Rabbit Hole: Portal Fantasy and Migration” tab_id=”1744625495240-f387588e-6c7e”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744625652561{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nDown The Rabbit Hole: Portal Fantasy and Migration\n14:00 BST \nHilton – Lagan B \nLauren Beukes\, Aliette de Bodard\, CL Hellisen\, Rosanne Rabinowitz and Kate Towner (moderator) \nFrom going into the back of a wardrobe to falling down a rabbit hole\, or even just walking through the right door\, there are many portals to fantasy worlds. But what does it mean to enter another world\, especially to live there? What does it mean to return\, after spending time in another world? How does portal fantasy reflect experiences of migration\, and how does it avoid them?[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”15:30 BST | From Page To Screen” tab_id=”1744625495256-7bef5963-3ff4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744625726372{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nFrom Page To Screen\n15:30 BST \nHilton – Lagan B \nLauren Beukes\, Derek Landy\, Rebecca Roanhorse\, Catriona Silvey and David Wake (moderator) \nYou might think having your writing adapted for screen is all glitz and glamour\, but is it? Our panel discusses what happens when Hollywood comes knocking – the pitfalls\, joys and what to watch out for. Who gets the final say\, and what gets left on the cutting room floor?[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”17:00 BST | Aliens\, Bodysnatchers\, and Shining Girls: When Horror and SF Meet” tab_id=”1744625495269-687bcaf9-2993″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744625807259{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nAliens\, Bodysnatchers\, and Shining Girls: When Horror and SF Meet\n17:00 BST \nHilton – Lagan A \nLauren Beukes\, Ruth EJ Booth\, Donna Scott (moderator)\, Ben Unsworth and Ian Watson \nYou’d think that sf and horror would make strange bedfellows\, yet from Frankenstein through the Alien franchise and books such as Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation and Lauren Beukes’s The Shining Girls\, the rational and the irrational have been joining forces for as long as the genres have existed to make us think and scare us at the same time. What is behind the enduring appeal of mixing these two genres? What works and what doesn’t? What are some of the best examples of the blending of these two genres?[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”20:00 BST | If You’re Not Angry You’re Not Paying Attention” tab_id=”1744625495285-471ade5a-f797″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744625879007{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nIf You’re Not Angry You’re Not Paying Attention\n20:00 BST \nICC – Hall 1 A \nLauren Beukes\, Mike Brooks (moderator)\, C.L. McCartney\, Sharan Volin and Susie Williamson \nThe modern world has a lot of causes for anger\, from racial injustice to corruption\, from gender discrimination to rising wealth inequality. We are seeing characters channelling anger in our fiction\, sometimes in destructive ways. How can authors tackle writing science fiction and fantasy stories about real-world situations that deserve anger? Can characters be used to model ways for us to channel our rage? And does anger really inevitably lead to the Dark Side?[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_tta_accordion title_tag=”h5″ section_title_tag=”h6″ active_section=”0″ title=”Monday 21 April 2025″][vc_tta_section title=”15:30 BST | Closing Ceremony” tab_id=”1744625881867-6e7b8413-78fd”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1744625995151{margin-top: -20px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”] \nClosing Ceremony\n15:30 BST \nICC – Hall 1 A \nLauren Beukes\, Claire Brialey\, Phil Dyson\, James Bacon\, Derek Landy\, Ian McDonald\, Jeannette Ng\, Rebecca Roanhorse\, William Simpson and Tommy Ferguson \nWe don’t want to go yet either but all good things come to an end. Join us for the closing ceremony and later in the bar for the Dead Dog![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nGuests of Honour\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”40″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”10480″ img_size=”350×450″ onclick=”custom_link”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”0″ tablet_portrait=”0″ mobile_landscape=”40″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning South African author of six novels\, a short story collection and NYT-best-selling graphic novels\, including Zoo City which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle\, The Shining Girls\, now a major AppleTV show starring Elisabeth Moss\, and\, most recently\, the reality-bending mother-daughter-dreamworm novel\, Bridge. Her work has been translated into 25 languages and she’s also worked in kids animation\, TV scriptwriting and directed an award-winning documentary.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”60″ mobile=”60″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”10145″ img_size=”350×450″ onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.skulduggerypleasant.co.uk/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”0″ tablet_portrait=”0″ mobile_landscape=”40″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Derek Landy is an Irish author and screenwriter\, best known for the Skulduggery Pleasant and Demon Road book series. Since 2018\, he has also written for Marvel Comics. Skullduggery Pleasant was published by HarperCollins\, who paid £1.8 million for the publishing rights\, growing to a nine-book series\, a six-book sequel series\, a spin-off\, and a prequel. In 2008\, Landy won the Red House Children’s Book Award. Playing with Fire\, Mortal Coil and Last Stand of Dead Men each won the senior Irish Children’s Book Award\, in 2009\, 2010 and 2013. In addition in 2010 Skulduggery Pleasant (Sceptre of the Ancients) was voted as Irish book of the decade.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”60″ mobile=”60″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”10146″ img_size=”350×450″ onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.jeannetteng.co.uk/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”0″ tablet_portrait=”0″ mobile_landscape=”40″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Jeannette Ng is originally from Hong Kong but now lives in Durham\, UK. Her MA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies fed into an interest in medieval and missionary theology\, which in turn spawned her love for writing gothic fantasy with a theological twist. She used to sell costumes out of her garage. She runs live roleplay games\, performs hair wizardry and sometimes has opinions on the internet\, including in Foreign Policy.​ She has won the Astounding for Best New Writer in 2019 and the Sydney J Bounds Award (Best Newcomer) in the British Fantasy Awards 2018[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”60″ mobile=”60″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”10147″ img_size=”350×450″ onclick=”custom_link”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”0″ tablet_portrait=”0″ mobile_landscape=”40″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Ian McDonald is an SFF writer living just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland. His first novel\, the cult fave Desolation Road\, was published in 1988 and won the Locus best first novel award. Since then he’s published twentysomething novels\, several story collections and a handful of novellas. He’s a Hugo\, Campbell Memorial\, Philip K Dick and BSFA award winner and has been nominated for just about every award going. He was Guest of Honour at An Irish Worldcon in 2019 in Dublin. His most recent novel is Hopeland.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”60″ mobile=”60″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”10148″ img_size=”350×450″ onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://rebeccaroanhorse.com/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”0″ tablet_portrait=”0″ mobile_landscape=”40″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Rebecca Roanhorse is a NYTimes bestselling author and Nebula\, Hugo\, and Locus Award-winning speculative fiction writer and the recipient of the 2018 Astounding Award. She has published multiple award-winning short stories and six novels\, including two in The Sixth World Series\, Star Wars: Resistance Reborn\, Race to the Sun for the Rick Riordan imprint\, and two in the epic fantasy Between Earth and Sky trilogy – Black Sun and Fevered Star. The third book in the trilogy\, Mirrored Heavens\, is expected out in 2024. She has also written for Marvel Comics and for television\, and had projects optioned by Amazon Studios\, Netflix\, and AMC Studios. She lives in Northern New Mexico\, USA\, with her husband\, daughter\, and pup.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”60″ mobile=”60″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”10149″ img_size=”350×450″ onclick=”custom_link”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”0″ tablet_portrait=”0″ mobile_landscape=”40″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Will Simpson is a Northern Irish native\, living in Belfast\, Will began his career in British comics in the 1980s\, drawing “Big Ben” for Warrior magazine in 1984\, Transformers for Marvel UK\, work for 2000 AD\, including “Judge Dredd” and “Rogue Trooper”. From 2011 until 2019 he was a storyboard and concept artist for the HBO TV series Game of Thrones\, [4] [5] for which he designed the White Walkers – amazing work. His most recent stuff is with movies such as Morgan\, Halo\, Byzantium and the tv series The Nevers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”60″ mobile=”60″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][gsf_button title=”Get Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fregistration.easterconbelfast.org%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/eastercon-76/
LOCATION:Eastercon\, UK\, Eastercon\, UK
CATEGORIES:Book Signings,Literary Festivals,Panel,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250208T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250208T104500
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SUMMARY:Genre-Busters
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nGenre-Busters at Stockport Noir Crime Festival\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_single_image image=”9953″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://serenitybooksellers.com/stockport-noir”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \n\n\nStockport Noir is the Northwest’s newest crime fiction festival. Taking place on Saturday\, 8th February\, at the beautiful Stockport Guildhall\, Stockport Noir aims to bring the biggest names in crime fiction to their readers. Join us for a day of insight\, stories and laughter with over 20 bestsellers and rising stars in the crime fiction community. \nDoors will open at 9:15 a.m.\, and panels will start at 10 a.m. The last event will finish at 6 p.m. \nIncluded in your ticket price: \n– Access to all seven panel discussions and a chance to ask the authors those burning questions \n– Book signings with your favourite authors \n– Onsite bookshop\, courtesy of Serenity Booksellers \n– Tote bag stuffed with bookish goodies \n– Access to the onsite bar \n– Unlimited tea and coffee \n– Free parking in the venue’s secure car park \nAuthors confirmed \nLauren Beukes · D.V. Bishop · Jo Callaghan · Natalie Chandler · M.W. Craven · Caroline England · Fiona Erskine · Guy Hale · Mari Hannah · Lesley Kara · Anna Mazzola · Chris McGeorge · Saima Mir · Sarah Moorhead · Dom Nolan · Judith O’Reilly · Rob Parker · T.M. Payne · Robert Rutherford · Adam Simcox · Catherine Wimpeney · Michael Wood · Trevor Wood \nSaturday 8th February 2025 9:15am – 6pm\nStockport Guildhall\, 169 Wellington Road South\, Stockport SK1 3UA \nBrought to you in partnership with local author Chris McDonald and Serenity Booksellers \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full” responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \nAbout The Child by Alistair MacKay:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9933″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://alistaircharlesmackay.com/book/the-child/”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]After suffering a mental breakdown and losing his job at a New York advertising agency\, a young man returns to Cape Town with his husband\, Adrian. It’s 2018 and Cape Town is about to run out of water. This isn’t the homecoming they dreamed of\, but the couple is determined to hold on to hope. \nThey are going to start a family by adopting a child. Someone to love\, as the world around them falls apart. Maybe even a chance to atone for the sins of this country. But as the adoption gets underway\, the narrator is forced to confront the childhood spectres he has spent a lifetime avoiding. While his marriage and sense of self begin to unravel\, his life becomes increasingly enmeshed with that of their bubbly and outspoken domestic worker\, Sibs\, and her quiet young daughter\, Buhle. And the more he tries to fix things\, the worse they get. \nLies\, violence and trauma endanger their hopes of a new beginning. And in the chaos of it all\, he has to find his way back to Adrian\, and to himself. \n“Outrageously beautiful” – News24 \n“A testament to the power of story-telling” – Sunday Times \n“An important\, if not essential\, voice of contemporary South Africa” – C.A. Davids\n“Fresh\, unflinching and propulsive” – S.J. Naudé[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full” responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9933″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://alistaircharlesmackay.com/book/the-child/”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9934″ img_size=”290×450″ onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://alistaircharlesmackay.com/”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”4/6″][vc_column_text]Alistair Mackay is the author of The Child. His debut novel\, It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way was long-listed for the British Science Fiction Association Awards\, The Sunday Times Literary Awards\, and was chosen by Brittle Paper as a Notable African Book of 2022. His writing explores queerness\, marginalisation\, social justice and climate change. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University\, and an MA in Politics from Edinburgh University. He lives in Cape Town.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9908″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://laurenbeukes.com/books/bridge/”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9936″ img_size=”290×450″ onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://laurenbeukes.com/”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”4/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning South African author of six novels\, a short story collection and NYT-best-selling graphic novels\, including Zoo City which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle\, The Shining Girls\, now a major AppleTV show with Elisabeth Moss\, and\, most recently\, the reality-bending mother-daughter-dreamworm novel\, Bridge. Her work has been translated into 25 languages and she’s also worked in kids animation\, TV scriptwriting and directed an award-winning documentary.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketsource.co.uk%2Fserenity-booksellers%2Fstockport-noir-crime-fiction-festival%2Fe-boelze|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/stockport-noir-crime-fiction-festival/
LOCATION:Stockport Noir Crime Fiction Festival\, Stockport Noir Crime Fiction Festival\, UK
CATEGORIES:Book Signings,Literary Festivals,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240811T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240811T140000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240731T131530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240731T131530Z
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SUMMARY:The Aldiss Award for World-Building in SF and Fantasy
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9886″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://glasgow2024.org/”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full” el_class=””][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nVia Glasgow Worldcon:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \n\n\nWe’re launching a new award at Glasgow Worldcon in honour of the late great Brian Aldiss’s centenary year – 2025. On this panel we discuss Brian’s part in the science fiction and fantasy worlds and talk more about the how’s and why’s of starting the new award and exactly what genres and classes it covers. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Speakers & Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning South African author of six novels\, a short story collection and NYT-best-selling graphic novels\, including Zoo City which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle\, The Shining Girls\, now a major AppleTV show with Elisabeth Moss\, and\, most recently\, the reality-bending mother-daughter-dreamworm novel\, Bridge. Her work has been translated into 25 languages and she’s also worked in kids animation\, TV scriptwriting and directed an award-winning documentary.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Dr. Allen Stroud is a lecturer and researcher at Coventry University. He is the Chair of the British Science Fiction Association. His award-winning research is in the development of macrotext documents for commercial media properties in science fiction\, fantasy and horror. He is also an award-winning science fiction writer who has published internationally successful commercial novels\, with his principle focus on fiction set in 2118 AD. Stroud has spoken at international conventions\, giving a presentation in Helsinki in 2017 at the World Convention of Science Fiction on modern media mythologies. He is an experienced event organiser\, panel moderator and contributor.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Stewart Hotston lives in Reading\, UK. With a Celtic-Indian mother and a father of North African/Roma descent\, Stewart is a somewhat confused second-generation immigrant living in the UK. His writing concerns those whose voices are more than capable but too frequently marginalised and how they build hope\, connection and live in the worlds in which they find themselves. His loves big ideas\, weird worlds and people who refuse to give up. His novels include the BFS and Subjective Chaos finalist\, Entropy of Loss as well as the tech thriller\, Tangle’s Game and the science fiction novels based in the Watch Dogs universe – Daybreak Legacy and Stars & Stripes.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Tim Aldiss is the son of Brian Aldiss and working in conjunction with The Aldiss Literary Estate.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fglasgow2024.org%2Ffor-members%2Fmemberships-and-tickets%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/the-aldiss-award-for-world-building-in-sf-and-fantasy/
LOCATION:Glasgow Worldcon\, Glasgow Worldcon\, UK
CATEGORIES:Literary Festivals,Panel,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240811T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240811T110000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240731T131047Z
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SUMMARY:Autographing: Sunday at 10:00
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9886″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://glasgow2024.org/”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full” el_class=”” responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nVia Glasgow Worldcon:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \n\n\nJoin your fellow convention members\, and perhaps some big names\, for a stroll (2 miles/3.2km) along the Clyde to and from Tall Ship Glenlee\, which is moored downstream from the SEC\, led by Farah Mendlesohn and Mike Scott. The route is wheelchair-accessible\, and we will adjust our pace to match the abilities of the slowest walkers. We advise against joining this walk if you are on the programme at 10:00\, because we might not be back in time for you to make your way to the Green Room. Note that you won’t be able to board the ship or enter the visitor centre until they open to the public at 11:00. Sign up at the Registration Desk by 18:00 the previous day\, and meet at 09:00 outside the Crowne Plaza hotel’s main entrance. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Speakers & Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning South African author of six novels\, a short story collection and NYT-best-selling graphic novels\, including Zoo City which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle\, The Shining Girls\, now a major AppleTV show with Elisabeth Moss\, and\, most recently\, the reality-bending mother-daughter-dreamworm novel\, Bridge. Her work has been translated into 25 languages and she’s also worked in kids animation\, TV scriptwriting and directed an award-winning documentary.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Alastair Reynolds is a former space scientist turned full-time science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty novels and around eighty short stories. He has been shortlisted for the Hugo\, Clarke\, & Philip K Dick awards\, and has won the BSFA\, Locus\, Seiun\, Sidewise and European Science Fiction society awards. He and his wife live in Wales.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]CE Murphy began writing around age six\, when she submitted three poems to a school publication. The teacher producing the magazine selected (inevitably) the one she thought was by far the worst\, but also told her–a six year old kid–to keep writing\, which she has. She has also held the usual grab-bag of jobs usually seen in an authorial biography\, including public library volunteer (at ages 9 and 10; it’s clear she was doomed to a career involving books)\, archival assistant\, cannery worker\, and web designer. Writing books is better. She was born and raised in Alaska\, and now lives with her family in her ancestral homeland of Ireland.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Daryl Gregory’s novels and short stories have been translated into a dozen languages and have won multiple awards\, including the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards\, and have been nominated for the Hugo\, Nebula\, Edgar\, Locus\, Lambda\, and Sturgeon awards. His latest books are the novel Revelator and the novella The Album of Dr. Moreau. His eight other books include Spoonbenders\, We Are All Completely Fine\, Afterparty\, the Crawford-Award-winning novel Pandemonium\, and the collection Unpossible and Other Stories. He’s written for TV and and is a regular instructor at the Viable Paradise Writing Workshop.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]James Patrick Kelly has won the Nebula\, Hugo and Locus awards. Jim’s most recent books are The First Law of of Thermodynaics Plus (2021)\, a collection in PM Press’s Outspoken Author series\, King Of The Dogs\, Queen Of The Cats (2020)\, a novella from Subterranean Press. He writes a column about the internet for Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and has a novelette and a novella forthcoming in 2024 in that publication. With John Kessel\, he has co-edited five anthologies\, including Rewired\, the Post-Cyberpunk Anthology and Digital Rapture\, the Singularity Anthology.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]RJ Barker is a critically acclaimed and award-winning author of fantasy fiction. He won the 2020 British Fantasy Society (BFS) Robert Holdstock award for Best Novel for his fourth novel\, The Bone Ships. \nHis debut trilogy The Wounded Kingdom (Age of Assassins\, Blood of Assassins and King of Assassins) was nominated for the David Gemmel Award\, the Kitschie Golden Tentacle\, The Compton Crook and the BFS Best Debut and Best Novel awards. It was called ‘Thoroughly entertaining and constantly impressive’ by the Fantasy Hive\, ‘One of the best fantasy series you will ever read’ by the BFS\, and ‘A singular sensational new voice in epic fantasy’ by Kings of the Wyld author Nicholas Eames. \nHe followed this with the award-winning Tide Child Trilogy: The Bone Ships\, Call of the Bone Ships and The Bone Ships Wake. These books have been hailed as ‘One of the most interesting and original fantasy worlds I’ve seen in years; by Adrian Tchaikovsky\, and ‘Brilliant’ by Robin Hobb\, alongside rave reviews in Starburst\, SFX\, and a starred review in Bookslist: ‘A unique and memorable world – harsh and brutal and full of fully realized\, powerful female characters. Barker has managed to craft a story inspired by Moby Dick\, Game of Thrones\, and pirate lore\, and readers will be drawn in and fascinated.’ \nHis next series\, The Forsaken Trilogy\, is set within the bounds of a forest straight out of darkest folklore – with outlaws fighting an evil empire and warring deities. The first book\, Gods of the Wyrdwood\, was published in 2023 by Orbit. \nRJ lives in Leeds with his wife\, son and a collection of questionable taxidermy\, odd art\, scary music and more books than they have room for. He grew up reading whatever he could get his hands on\, and has always been ‘that one with the book in his pocket.’ Having played in rock bands before deciding he was a rubbish musician\, RJ returned to his first love\, fiction.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]S.B. Divya is a lover of science\, math\, fiction\, and the Oxford comma. She is the Hugo and Nebula nominated author of Meru and Machinehood. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies\, and she is a former editor of Escape Pod\, the weekly science fiction podcast. Divya holds degrees in Computational Neuroscience and Signal Processing. She worked for twenty years as an electrical engineer before becoming an author. Born in Pondicherry\, India\, Divya now resides in Southern California with her spouse\, child\, and two fur babies. She enjoys subverting expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Sarah Langan‘s an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Her most recent novel\, A Better World\, is out now. She’s also the author of Good Neighbors\, The Keeper\, The Missing\, and Audrey’s Door. She has an MS in Environmental Toxicology from NYU\, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband\, daughters\, and maniac rabbits.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fglasgow2024.org%2Ffor-members%2Fmemberships-and-tickets%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/autographing-sunday-at-1000/
LOCATION:Glasgow Worldcon\, Glasgow Worldcon\, UK
CATEGORIES:Book Signings,Literary Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240811T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240811T100000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240731T130510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240731T131110Z
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SUMMARY:Stroll with the Stars - Sunday\, The Tall Ship
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9886″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://glasgow2024.org/”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nVia Glasgow Worldcon:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \n\n\nJoin your fellow convention members\, and perhaps some big names\, for a stroll (2 miles/3.2km) along the Clyde to and from Tall Ship Glenlee\, which is moored downstream from the SEC\, led by Farah Mendlesohn and Mike Scott. The route is wheelchair-accessible\, and we will adjust our pace to match the abilities of the slowest walkers. We advise against joining this walk if you are on the programme at 10:00\, because we might not be back in time for you to make your way to the Green Room. Note that you won’t be able to board the ship or enter the visitor centre until they open to the public at 11:00. Sign up at the Registration Desk by 18:00 the previous day\, and meet at 09:00 outside the Crowne Plaza hotel’s main entrance. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Speakers & Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning South African author of six novels\, a short story collection and NYT-best-selling graphic novels\, including Zoo City which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle\, The Shining Girls\, now a major AppleTV show with Elisabeth Moss\, and\, most recently\, the reality-bending mother-daughter-dreamworm novel\, Bridge. Her work has been translated into 25 languages and she’s also worked in kids animation\, TV scriptwriting and directed an award-winning documentary.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Fatima Taqvi is a Pakistani writer of fantasy and horror. She is a graduate of Clarion West 2023 and has words in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\, Lightspeed Magazine\, Nightmare Magazine\, and Strange Horizons. She was shortlisted for the Future Worlds Prize in 2021 and was a finalist for the Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction in 2019. She has forthcoming work in OwlCrate anthology “Monsters in Masquerade” and Apex Book Company’s “Map of Lost Places.”[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]GEOFF RYMAN’s work has won numerous awards including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award first place\, the Arthur C. Clarke Award (twice for The Child Garden and for Air)\, the James W Tiptree Memorial Award (for Air)\, the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award (for 253)\, the British Science Fiction Association Award (three times\, once for the series of interviews with African writers and the Canadian Sunburst Award (twice for Air a volume of short stories\, Paradise Tales. In 2012 he won a Nebula Award for his Nigeria-set novelette ‘What We Found’. In December of 2023 his novel HIM was published and made both the Financial Times and The Guardian’s lists of the five best SFF novels of the year. HIH was shortlisted for a BSFA Award for Best Novel. Geoff was originally from Canada and has lived since 1973 in the UK.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Dr. Geoffrey A. Landis is a science-fiction writer and a scientist. He has won the Hugo and Nebula awards for science fiction\, and is the author of the novel Mars Crossing and collection Impact Parameter (& Other Quantum Realities). He works for NASA on developing advanced technologies for spaceflight. He was a member of the Pathfinder and Mars Exploration Rovers Science teams\, and most recently working on a mission to return a sample from the surface of Venus as part of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts project. He is also known for work on concepts for interstellar flight. In his spare time\, he goes to fencing tournaments to stab strangers with a sword.  More information about him can be found at his somewhat-outdated web page: http://www.geoffreylandis.com/\, or on Wikipedia.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Joanne Harris (OBE\, FRSL) is the internationally celebrated author of over 20 novels\, including CHOCOLAT\, (which became a movie in 2001)\, THE GOSPEL OF LOKI\, HONEYCOMB and most recently\, THE MOONLIGHT MARKET. She writes in various genres\, from folklore to horror\, Gothic and literary fiction\, and has won numerous UK and international awards. She lives in Yorkshire\, performs in the band she first formed when she was 16\, and works from a shed in her garden.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Khan Wong has a past as a poet\, cellist\, arts funder and internationally known hula hooper. His debut novel\, The Circus Infinite\, was published by Angry Robot Books in 2022. It was longlisted for the BSFA Best Novel category\, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His next novel\, Down in the Sea of Angels\, will be published by Angry Robot in 2025.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]M. Darusha Wehm is the Nebula Award-nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning author of the interactive fiction game The Martian Job\, as well as over a dozen novels including the Andersson Dexter cyberpunk detective series and the humorous coming-of-age novel The Home for Wayward Parrots. Darusha is a member of the Many Worlds writing collective and their short fiction and poetry have appeared in many venues\, including Strange Horizons\, Terraform and Nature. Their poetry has been a finalist for the Rhysling Award. Originally from Canada\, Darusha lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington\, Aotearoa New Zealand after several years sailing the Pacific.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of The Spare Man\, Ghost Talkers\, The Glamourist Histories series\, and the Lady Astronaut Universe. She is part of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and a four-time Hugo Award winner. Her short fiction appears in Uncanny\, Tor.com\, and Asimov’s. Mary Robinette\, a professional puppeteer\, lives in Tennessee. Visit at maryrobinettekowal.com.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Minerva Cerridwen (xe or she) is a neurodiverse genderqueer aromantic asexual author from Belgium. Xe enjoys baking\, drawing\, and learning languages. Xyr queer fairy tale novella THE DRAGON OF YNYS came out with Atthis Arts in 2020. Find more information about Minerva’s writing on xyr website: https://minervacerridwen.wordpress.com/[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Ng Yi-Sheng (he/him) is a Singaporean writer\, researcher and translator with a keen interest in Southeast Asian history and myth. \nHe is the author of the speculative fiction collection Lion City (winner of the Singapore Book Award for Best Literary Work 2019 and the Singapore Literature Prize 2020). His creative works have been published in Clarkesworld\, Strange Horizons and Best of World SF Vol 1. His essays include “A Spicepunk Manifesto: Towards a Critical Movement of Southeast Asian-Inspired SFF”\, “A History of Singapore Horror” and “A Not-So-Swiftly Tilting Planet: Global Inequities in SFF Publishing.” \nAdditionally\, he served as editor of A Mosque in the Jungle: Classic Ghost Stories by Othman Wok and Wok and EXHALE: an Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices. He has spoken at numerous festivals\, including the Singapore Writers Festival\, the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival\, Wordstorm Darwn and Flights of Foundry.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Paolo Bacigalupi is the internationally bestselling author of THE WINDUP GIRL\, SHIP BREAKER\, and THE WATER KNIFE\, among others. He has won the Hugo\, Nebula\, World Fantasy\, and Michael L. Printz Awards\, and was a National Book Award Finalist. His latest book is NAVOLA\, an epic fantasy set in an Italian Renaissance-inspired world.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Paul Weimer is not really a Prince of Amber. He is a photographer\, SFF reviewer\, writer\, critic\, and podcaster. He lives in a city between St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota and continually dreams of his next photographic adventure. He can best be found on the internet under the name @princejvstin.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Pepper likes science\, cats\, and conventions.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]RJ Barker is a critically acclaimed and award-winning author of fantasy fiction. He won the 2020 British Fantasy Society (BFS) Robert Holdstock award for Best Novel for his fourth novel\, The Bone Ships. \nHis debut trilogy The Wounded Kingdom (Age of Assassins\, Blood of Assassins and King of Assassins) was nominated for the David Gemmel Award\, the Kitschie Golden Tentacle\, The Compton Crook and the BFS Best Debut and Best Novel awards. It was called ‘Thoroughly entertaining and constantly impressive’ by the Fantasy Hive\, ‘One of the best fantasy series you will ever read’ by the BFS\, and ‘A singular sensational new voice in epic fantasy’ by Kings of the Wyld author Nicholas Eames. \nHe followed this with the award-winning Tide Child Trilogy: The Bone Ships\, Call of the Bone Ships and The Bone Ships Wake. These books have been hailed as ‘One of the most interesting and original fantasy worlds I’ve seen in years; by Adrian Tchaikovsky\, and ‘Brilliant’ by Robin Hobb\, alongside rave reviews in Starburst\, SFX\, and a starred review in Bookslist: ‘A unique and memorable world – harsh and brutal and full of fully realized\, powerful female characters. Barker has managed to craft a story inspired by Moby Dick\, Game of Thrones\, and pirate lore\, and readers will be drawn in and fascinated.’ \nHis next series\, The Forsaken Trilogy\, is set within the bounds of a forest straight out of darkest folklore – with outlaws fighting an evil empire and warring deities. The first book\, Gods of the Wyrdwood\, was published in 2023 by Orbit. \nRJ lives in Leeds with his wife\, son and a collection of questionable taxidermy\, odd art\, scary music and more books than they have room for. He grew up reading whatever he could get his hands on\, and has always been ‘that one with the book in his pocket.’ Having played in rock bands before deciding he was a rubbish musician\, RJ returned to his first love\, fiction.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Victor Manibo is a Filipino novelist living in New York. As a queer immigrant and a person of color\, he writes about people who live these identities as they navigate imaginary worlds. A 2022 Lambda Literary Emerging Voices Fellow\, he is the author of the science fiction novels THE SLEEPLESS and ESCAPE VELOCITY from Erewhon Books. Aside from fiction\, he also spins fantastical tales in his career as a lawyer. He lives in Queens with his husband\, their dog\, and their two cats. Find him online at victormanibo.com and on most social media platforms @victormanibo.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]SJ Groenewegen wrote the novels The Disinformation War (GoldSF\, 2023)\, Lethbridge-Stewart: A Most Haunted Man (Candy Jar\, 2022)\, and Lethbridge-Stewart: Daughters of Earth (Candy Jar\, 2017). SJ also wrote the Black Archive on Doctor Who’s Face the Raven\, as well as numerous essays on Doctor Who\, SFF\, gaming\, and being queer. SJ’s short fiction has won awards (Scarlet Stiletto in 2002)\, appeared in Big Finish’s Doctor Who Short Trips range\, the Lethbridge-Stewart Havoc Files collections and UNIT anthologies. In 2016\, SJ was awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to law enforcement and LGBTQIA diversity. SJ is a committee member of the Society of Authors in Scotland.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Yaroslav Barsukov is a writer of fantasy\, science fiction\, and everything in between. He’s best known for his science fantasy noir novella Tower of Mud and Straw\, which became an Amazon bestseller\, was shortlisted for the prestigious Nebula Award as well as the SCKA Award\, and received a Kirkus Star\, eventually landing on Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Books of 2021” list. He’s a full member of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) and combines his writing duties with volunteer work\, serving as chair of SFWA’s Information Systems Committee.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Adri Joy is a critic and senior co-editor at the Hugo and Ignyte-winning online fanzine nerds of a feather\, flock together\, which publishes daily reviews\, interviews\, roundtables and analysis of all things nerd culture. She also writes for Strange Horizons and has been published in the British Fantasy Society journal. She is a regular jurist for the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards\, a blogger-led award recognising excellent books without taking itself too seriously. She also finds time for her day job supporting democracy and rule of law worldwide\, scuba diving with interesting wildlife\, and providing emotional support to her elderly whippet.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \n\nFarah Mendlesohn is a con-runner\, an Emerita History Professor\, a charity manager\, co-editor of the Hugo Award Winning Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction\, author of the Hugo nominated The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein and is currently working on a short book about Joanna Russ’s The Female Man. Farah chaired three Eastercons and served in various capacities in Worldcons and Eastercons. Farah is part of the World Fantasy 2025 team. (Farah/they/she). Farah’s pre-con volunteer time at Glasgow2024 has been donated in part by her employer\, The Association of Charity Independent Examiners. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fglasgow2024.org%2Ffor-members%2Fmemberships-and-tickets%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/stroll-with-the-stars-sunday-the-tall-ship/
LOCATION:Glasgow Worldcon\, Glasgow Worldcon\, UK
CATEGORIES:Book Signings,Literary Festivals,Panel,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240810T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240810T213000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240731T125449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240731T125449Z
UID:9892-1723321800-1723325400@laurenbeukes.com
SUMMARY:AI and Creative Writing - Do Androids Dream of Winning a Hugo?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9886″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://glasgow2024.org/”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nVia Glasgow Worldcon:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \n\n\nThere has been a surge in self-published e-books written (largely) by ChatGPT whilst some magazine editors report being swamped by AI-generated stories. For now\, these are easily identifiable and generally of poor quality. However\, will a time come when AI-generated fiction is indistinguishable from human-generated stories and of a standard people might actually want to read? Should we accept that this is inevitable or resist the rise of AI fiction? And how do we resist? \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Speakers & Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning South African author of six novels\, a short story collection and NYT-best-selling graphic novels\, including Zoo City which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle\, The Shining Girls\, now a major AppleTV show with Elisabeth Moss\, and\, most recently\, the reality-bending mother-daughter-dreamworm novel\, Bridge. Her work has been translated into 25 languages and she’s also worked in kids animation\, TV scriptwriting and directed an award-winning documentary.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Erik M Johnson is a short story author and has been creating stories since he could read and write. Encouraged by high-school writing and literature teachers\, he decided to become a professional author one day. That day\, as it turns out\, just happened to be over thirty five years later. He is now threatening to write a novel. He enjoys public speaking on panels because he can carry on and on and people are less likely to run away. \nErik has been published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact (a fact that is still mindboggling to Erik) and graduated Taos Toolbox. \nErik currently lives in the Boston area\, but has not yet been to Arkham\, Massachusetts. \nErik thinks referring to himself in the third person is strange and is getting tired of starting sentences with ‘Erik.'[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Anna Ziegelhof is a science fiction and horror writer originally from Germany\, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her background is in social science and humanities research\, linguistics\, and recently tech (Research and Development in voice AI). Her short fiction can be found in numerous anthologies and magazines\, among others The Horror Library\, Flametree Press\, Luna Station\, and Shoreline of Infinity. She particularly enjoys quiet stories exploring darker aspects of the creaturely experience.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Neil Clarke (neil-clarke.com) is the multi-award-winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine and over a dozen anthologies\, including the Best Science Fiction of the Year series. An twelve-time finalist and the 2022/2023 winner of the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form\, he is also the four-time winner of the Chesley Award for Best Art Director. In 2019\, Clarke received the SFWA Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award for distinguished contributions to the science fiction and fantasy community. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \n\nJason Sanford is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who’s also a passionate advocate for fellow authors\, creators\, and fans\, in particular through reporting in his Genre Grapevine column (for which he is a four-time finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer). He’s also published dozens of stories in magazines such as Apex Magazine\, Asimov’s Science Fiction\, Interzone\, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies along with appearances in a number of “year’s best” anthologies and The New Voices of Science Fiction. His first novel Plague Birds was a finalist for both the 2022 Nebula Award and the 2022 Philip K. Dick Award. Born and raised in the American South\, Jason’s previous experience includes work as an archaeologist and as a Peace Corps Volunteer. His website is www.jasonsanford.com. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fglasgow2024.org%2Ffor-members%2Fmemberships-and-tickets%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/ai-and-creative-writing-do-androids-dream-of-winning-a-hugo/
LOCATION:Glasgow Worldcon\, Glasgow Worldcon\, UK
CATEGORIES:Book Signings,Literary Festivals,Panel,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240810T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240810T153000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240731T121357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240731T121357Z
UID:9889-1723300200-1723303800@laurenbeukes.com
SUMMARY:Through an African Lens
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9886″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://glasgow2024.org/”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nVia Glasgow Worldcon:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \n\n\nAfrican and diaspora writers have a unique perspective on the world and genre\, shaped by their experiences. The panel will explore how African writers approach and refashion familiar territories and themes with fresh eyes. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Speakers & Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning South African author of six novels\, a short story collection and NYT-best-selling graphic novels\, including Zoo City which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle\, The Shining Girls\, now a major AppleTV show with Elisabeth Moss\, and\, most recently\, the reality-bending mother-daughter-dreamworm novel\, Bridge. Her work has been translated into 25 languages and she’s also worked in kids animation\, TV scriptwriting and directed an award-winning documentary.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]T.L. Huchu’s work has appeared in ‘Lightspeed’\, ‘Interzone’\, ‘Analog Science Fiction & Fact’\, ‘The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021’\, ‘Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’\, ‘Mystery Weekly’\, ‘The Year’s Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016’\, and elsewhere. He is the winner of a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2023)\, Alex Award (2022)\, the Children’s Africana Book Award (2021)\, a Nommo Award for African SFF (2022\, 2017)\, and has been shortlisted for the Caine Prize (2014) and the Grand prix de l’Imaginaire (2019). The Edinburgh Nights series is now on its third instalment. Find him @TendaiHuchu[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]WOLE TALABI is an engineer\, writer\, and editor from Nigeria. He is the author of the nebula-moninated novel SHIGIDI AND THE BRASS HEAD OF OBALUFON (DAW books/Gollancz\, 2023). His short fiction has appeared in places like Asimov’s Science Fiction\, Lightspeed Magazine\, Tor.com and is collected in the books CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS (DAW books\, 2024) and INCOMPLETE SOLUTIONS (Luna Press\, 2019). He has been a finalist for the Hugo\, Nebula\, and Locus awards\, as well as the Caine Prize for African Writing and he has won the Nommo award for African speculative fiction and the Sidewise award for Alternate History. He has edited five anthologies including the acclaimed AFRICANFUTURISM: AN ANTHOLOGY (Brittlepaper\, 2020) and MOTHERSOUND: THE SAUÚTIVERSE ANTHOLOGY (Android Press\, 2023). He likes scuba diving\, elegant equations\, and oddly shaped things. He currently lives and works in Australia. Find him at wtalabi.wordpress.com and at @wtalabi on Twitter\, Instagram\, Bluesky and Tiktok.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \n\nYvette Lisa Ndlovu is a Zimbabwean sarungano. Her debut short story collection Drinking from Graveyard Wells (University Press of Kentucky) won the Cornell University 2023 Philip Freund Prize for Creative Writing\, shortlisted for the Ursula Le Guin Prize for Fiction and nominated for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Collection. Her novel manuscript-in-progress was selected by George R.R. Martin for the Worldbuilder Scholarship. She earned her BA at Cornell University and her MFA at UMass Amherst. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Tin House Workshop\, Bread Loaf Writers Workshop\, and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. She is the Newhouse Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Wellesley College and has taught at UMass Amherst\, Clarion West online\, and the Juniper Institute for Young Writers. She is the co-founder of the Voodoonauts Summer Fellowship for Black SFF writers. Her work has been anthologized in the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021 and the NAACP-award nominated Africa Risen (Tor). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Columbia Journal\, F&SF\, Tor.com\, Lightspeed\, FANTASY Magazine\, and Fiyah Literary Magazine for Black Speculative Fiction. She is currently at work on a novel. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fglasgow2024.org%2Ffor-members%2Fmemberships-and-tickets%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/through-an-african-lens/
LOCATION:Glasgow Worldcon\, Glasgow Worldcon\, UK
CATEGORIES:Book Signings,Literary Festivals,Panel,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240809T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240809T200000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240731T120550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240731T120550Z
UID:9880-1723230000-1723233600@laurenbeukes.com
SUMMARY:The Future of the Oldest Profession: Portrayals of Sex Work in SFF
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9886″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” el_class=”” link=”https://glasgow2024.org/”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nVia Glasgow Worldcon:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \n\n\nStereotypes and myths abound around sex work\, from the “hookers with a heart of gold” to universally trafficked underage addicts. Fiction\, including genre fiction\, has often fallen back on those stereotypes but has also been willing to subvert them\, treating sex workers as the real\, diverse people they are. Our panel considers the ways SFF writers have used sex work in their fiction\, what that says about speculative fiction\, and the best portrayals of sex work they recommend in SFF. \nPart of our Glasgow After Dark series. 18+ only. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Speakers & Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \n\nLiz Bourke (moderator) holds a Ph.D in Classics from Trinity College\, Dublin. She’s written about SFF for Locus Magazine and Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com)\, among other places. Her first book\, Sleeping With Monsters\, a collection of reviews and criticism\, was published in 2017 by Aqueduct Press. She lives in Ireland with her wife\, an insomniac small child\, and their two very put-upon cats. \n\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning South African author of six novels\, a short story collection and NYT-best-selling graphic novels\, including Zoo City which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle\, The Shining Girls\, now a major AppleTV show with Elisabeth Moss\, and\, most recently\, the reality-bending mother-daughter-dreamworm novel\, Bridge. Her work has been translated into 25 languages and she’s also worked in kids animation\, TV scriptwriting and directed an award-winning documentary.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Avery Delany is a small science fictional creature\, and a lover of soft futures and obnoxious fictional men. They are a renegade PhD student where they were once doing research on video games\, human/non-human relations and futurity. Avery is a member of the Beyond Gender collective\, podcaster with Lore Party media\, and an ex co-director of the London Science Fiction Research Community[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \nJohannes T. Evans is a fantasy\, romance\, and horror author from the South of Wales\, now living in Bradford\, Yorkshire. As a gay\, disabled trans man\, he enjoys romances and character dynamics that go beyond the basic dynamic of boy meets girl and heterosexuality comes next. He writes a wide variety of characters and stories\, most exploring themes of trauma\, power dynamics\, class\, and sexuality. \n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \n\nSarah Langan‘s an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Her most recent novel\, A Better World\, is out now. She’s also the author of Good Neighbors\, The Keeper\, The Missing\, and Audrey’s Door. She has an MS in Environmental Toxicology from NYU\, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband\, daughters\, and maniac rabbits. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fglasgow2024.org%2Ffor-members%2Fmemberships-and-tickets%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/the-future-of-the-oldest-profession-portrayals-of-sex-work-in-sff/
LOCATION:Glasgow Worldcon\, Glasgow Worldcon\, UK
CATEGORIES:Book Signings,Literary Festivals,Panel,Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240809T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240809T130000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240804T075016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240804T075016Z
UID:9914-1723204800-1723208400@laurenbeukes.com
SUMMARY:Signings: Tachyon Table
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9886″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://glasgow2024.org/”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full” el_class=””][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”” responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”] \nVia Glasgow Worldcon:\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=””] \n\n\nSigning books at the Tachyon Table at Glasgow Worldcon 2024. Come say hello! \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full” el_class=”” responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Speakers & Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning South African author of six novels\, a short story collection and NYT-best-selling graphic novels\, including Zoo City which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle\, The Shining Girls\, now a major AppleTV show with Elisabeth Moss\, and\, most recently\, the reality-bending mother-daughter-dreamworm novel\, Bridge. Her work has been translated into 25 languages and she’s also worked in kids animation\, TV scriptwriting and directed an award-winning documentary.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Alastair Reynolds is a former space scientist turned full-time science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty novels and around eighty short stories. He has been shortlisted for the Hugo\, Clarke\, & Philip K Dick awards\, and has won the BSFA\, Locus\, Seiun\, Sidewise and European Science Fiction society awards. He and his wife live in Wales.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]CE Murphy began writing around age six\, when she submitted three poems to a school publication. The teacher producing the magazine selected (inevitably) the one she thought was by far the worst\, but also told her–a six year old kid–to keep writing\, which she has. She has also held the usual grab-bag of jobs usually seen in an authorial biography\, including public library volunteer (at ages 9 and 10; it’s clear she was doomed to a career involving books)\, archival assistant\, cannery worker\, and web designer. Writing books is better. She was born and raised in Alaska\, and now lives with her family in her ancestral homeland of Ireland.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Daryl Gregory’s novels and short stories have been translated into a dozen languages and have won multiple awards\, including the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards\, and have been nominated for the Hugo\, Nebula\, Edgar\, Locus\, Lambda\, and Sturgeon awards. His latest books are the novel Revelator and the novella The Album of Dr. Moreau. His eight other books include Spoonbenders\, We Are All Completely Fine\, Afterparty\, the Crawford-Award-winning novel Pandemonium\, and the collection Unpossible and Other Stories. He’s written for TV and and is a regular instructor at the Viable Paradise Writing Workshop.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]James Patrick Kelly has won the Nebula\, Hugo and Locus awards. Jim’s most recent books are The First Law of of Thermodynaics Plus (2021)\, a collection in PM Press’s Outspoken Author series\, King Of The Dogs\, Queen Of The Cats (2020)\, a novella from Subterranean Press. He writes a column about the internet for Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and has a novelette and a novella forthcoming in 2024 in that publication. With John Kessel\, he has co-edited five anthologies\, including Rewired\, the Post-Cyberpunk Anthology and Digital Rapture\, the Singularity Anthology.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]RJ Barker is a critically acclaimed and award-winning author of fantasy fiction. He won the 2020 British Fantasy Society (BFS) Robert Holdstock award for Best Novel for his fourth novel\, The Bone Ships. \nHis debut trilogy The Wounded Kingdom (Age of Assassins\, Blood of Assassins and King of Assassins) was nominated for the David Gemmel Award\, the Kitschie Golden Tentacle\, The Compton Crook and the BFS Best Debut and Best Novel awards. It was called ‘Thoroughly entertaining and constantly impressive’ by the Fantasy Hive\, ‘One of the best fantasy series you will ever read’ by the BFS\, and ‘A singular sensational new voice in epic fantasy’ by Kings of the Wyld author Nicholas Eames. \nHe followed this with the award-winning Tide Child Trilogy: The Bone Ships\, Call of the Bone Ships and The Bone Ships Wake. These books have been hailed as ‘One of the most interesting and original fantasy worlds I’ve seen in years; by Adrian Tchaikovsky\, and ‘Brilliant’ by Robin Hobb\, alongside rave reviews in Starburst\, SFX\, and a starred review in Bookslist: ‘A unique and memorable world – harsh and brutal and full of fully realized\, powerful female characters. Barker has managed to craft a story inspired by Moby Dick\, Game of Thrones\, and pirate lore\, and readers will be drawn in and fascinated.’ \nHis next series\, The Forsaken Trilogy\, is set within the bounds of a forest straight out of darkest folklore – with outlaws fighting an evil empire and warring deities. The first book\, Gods of the Wyrdwood\, was published in 2023 by Orbit. \nRJ lives in Leeds with his wife\, son and a collection of questionable taxidermy\, odd art\, scary music and more books than they have room for. He grew up reading whatever he could get his hands on\, and has always been ‘that one with the book in his pocket.’ Having played in rock bands before deciding he was a rubbish musician\, RJ returned to his first love\, fiction.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]S.B. Divya is a lover of science\, math\, fiction\, and the Oxford comma. She is the Hugo and Nebula nominated author of Meru and Machinehood. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies\, and she is a former editor of Escape Pod\, the weekly science fiction podcast. Divya holds degrees in Computational Neuroscience and Signal Processing. She worked for twenty years as an electrical engineer before becoming an author. Born in Pondicherry\, India\, Divya now resides in Southern California with her spouse\, child\, and two fur babies. She enjoys subverting expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Sarah Langan‘s an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Her most recent novel\, A Better World\, is out now. She’s also the author of Good Neighbors\, The Keeper\, The Missing\, and Audrey’s Door. She has an MS in Environmental Toxicology from NYU\, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband\, daughters\, and maniac rabbits.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fglasgow2024.org%2Ffor-members%2Fmemberships-and-tickets%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/signings-tachyon-table/
LOCATION:Glasgow Worldcon\, Glasgow Worldcon\, UK
CATEGORIES:Book Signings,Literary Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240809T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240809T110000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240731T114024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240731T114024Z
UID:9874-1723197600-1723201200@laurenbeukes.com
SUMMARY:Table Talk: Lauren Beukes
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full” el_class=””][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9875″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://glasgow2024.org/”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”” responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nVia The Bradford Literature Festival:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \n\n\nJared Shurin\, award-winning anthologist and editor of The Big Book of Cyberpunk\, is joined by two of the book’s contributing writers\, Lauren Beukes and EJ Swift. \nCyberpunk fiction offers space for imaginative storytelling to discuss and even predict the future. Since the 1980s\, the genre has posited questions and scenarios that examine virtual reality\, cybernetics and AI\, and their effect upon ordinary lives\, communities and culture – realities we are now facing today. \nJoin us for a lively discussion about the role speculative fiction can play as we reimagine the world around us and how cyberpunk can help us shape the world of tomorrow. \n\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full” el_class=”” responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Speakers & Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9792″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.jurassic-london.com/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Jared Shurin is the editor of The Big Book of Cyberpunk\, The Djinn Falls in Love\, The Best of British Fantasy and many others.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9791″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://laurenbeukes.com/books/bridge/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning author of six novels\, a collection of short stories\, a pop history about South African women\, and New York Times best-selling comics. Her work has been translated into 26 languages and won prizes across genres from the Arthur C Clarke Award to the Strand Critic’s Choice award and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Her novel\, The Shining Girls\, about a time-travelling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around is now a AppleTV series with Elisabeth Moss. Her latest novel\, Bridge\, about a young woman’s search for her mother across realities is out now.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9793″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://ejswift.co.uk/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]E. J. Swift is the author of The Osiris Project\, a speculative fiction trilogy set in a world altered by climate breakdown\, and time travel novel Paris Adrift. Her latest novel\, The Coral Bones\, is a Kitschies Red Tentacle finalist and has been shortlisted for the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” el_class=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fglasgow2024.org%2Ffor-members%2Fmemberships-and-tickets%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/table-talk-lauren-beukes/
LOCATION:Glasgow Worldcon\, Glasgow Worldcon\, UK
CATEGORIES:Book Signings,Literary Festivals,Panel,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240720T181500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240720T200000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240712T111211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240712T111457Z
UID:9865-1721499300-1721505600@laurenbeukes.com
SUMMARY:Saturday Night Author Dinner
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9866″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/whats-on/author-dinner-saturday-20-july-2024/”][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \nVia Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text]Saturday 20 July 2024 | 6.15pm – 8.00pm \nThe Wedgewood Restaurant | Old Swan Hotel\, Harrogate \nTicket: £55 | Includes a welcome glass of wine\, 2-course murder mystery dinner\, teas and coffees\, as well as a copy of your host’s latest book. \nPlease note that all transactions are subject to a £2.50 booking fee. A maximum of six tickets can be booked at one time. \nPlease note – If you purchase a ticket for this event you do not need to purchase a separate site pass. \nWhodunnit? That is the question on everyone’s lips at the author dinner\, along with good food\, wine and conversation. \nYour table will be hosted by a leading crime writer who will lend their insights\, experience and skill – or failing that\, their best guess – to identify the perpetrator of the dastardly crime in the murder mystery that will be acted out for your delight\, deflection and diversion. \nKnives\, forks and sharp wits at the ready\, let’s eat! \nIncludes a welcome glass of wine\, 2-course murder mystery dinner\, teas and coffees\, as well as a copy of your host’s latest book… plus a prize for the winning table! \nThe scenarios for the murder mysteries of Friday and Saturday’s dinner will be different each evening. \nAlso be aware that there will be an event on stage in the Live Event Tent at the same time as this event. \n2024’s Participating Authors: \nSuzy Aspley | Kate Bendelow | Lauren Beukes | Chris Brookmyre | Emily Freud | Araminta Hall | Peter Hanington | David Hewson | Jane Jesmond | Alex Kane | Ruth Kelly | Bonnie MacBird | Syd Moore | Kristina Perez Sunny Singh | John Sutherland | Russ Thomas | MJ White | Trevor Wood | Michael Wood[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_section responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Speakers & Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9792″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.jurassic-london.com/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Jared Shurin is the editor of The Big Book of Cyberpunk\, The Djinn Falls in Love\, The Best of British Fantasy and many others.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9791″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://laurenbeukes.com/books/bridge/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning author of six novels\, a collection of short stories\, a pop history about South African women\, and New York Times best-selling comics. Her work has been translated into 26 languages and won prizes across genres from the Arthur C Clarke Award to the Strand Critic’s Choice award and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Her novel\, The Shining Girls\, about a time-travelling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around is now a AppleTV series with Elisabeth Moss. Her latest novel\, Bridge\, about a young woman’s search for her mother across realities is out now.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9793″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://ejswift.co.uk/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]E. J. Swift is the author of The Osiris Project\, a speculative fiction trilogy set in a world altered by climate breakdown\, and time travel novel Paris Adrift. Her latest novel\, The Coral Bones\, is a Kitschies Red Tentacle finalist and has been shortlisted for the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section content_width=”full” el_class=””][vc_row content_width=”full” el_class=””][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fharrogateinternationalfestivals.com%2Fwhats-on%2Fauthor-dinner-saturday-20-july-2024%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/saturday-night-author-dinner/
LOCATION:Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival\, Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival\, UK
CATEGORIES:Literary Festivals
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240630T164500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240630T174500
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240523T073044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T074742Z
UID:9789-1719765900-1719769500@laurenbeukes.com
SUMMARY:The Big Book Of Cyberpunk
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9790″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/the-big-book-of-cyberpunk/”][vc_column_text] \nVia The Bradford Literature Festival:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \n\n\nJared Shurin\, award-winning anthologist and editor of The Big Book of Cyberpunk\, is joined by two of the book’s contributing writers\, Lauren Beukes and EJ Swift. \nCyberpunk fiction offers space for imaginative storytelling to discuss and even predict the future. Since the 1980s\, the genre has posited questions and scenarios that examine virtual reality\, cybernetics and AI\, and their effect upon ordinary lives\, communities and culture – realities we are now facing today. \nJoin us for a lively discussion about the role speculative fiction can play as we reimagine the world around us and how cyberpunk can help us shape the world of tomorrow. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Speakers & Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9792″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.jurassic-london.com/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Jared Shurin is the editor of The Big Book of Cyberpunk\, The Djinn Falls in Love\, The Best of British Fantasy and many others.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9791″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://laurenbeukes.com/books/bridge/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning author of six novels\, a collection of short stories\, a pop history about South African women\, and New York Times best-selling comics. Her work has been translated into 26 languages and won prizes across genres from the Arthur C Clarke Award to the Strand Critic’s Choice award and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Her novel\, The Shining Girls\, about a time-travelling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around is now a AppleTV series with Elisabeth Moss. Her latest novel\, Bridge\, about a young woman’s search for her mother across realities is out now.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9793″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://ejswift.co.uk/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]E. J. Swift is the author of The Osiris Project\, a speculative fiction trilogy set in a world altered by climate breakdown\, and time travel novel Paris Adrift. Her latest novel\, The Coral Bones\, is a Kitschies Red Tentacle finalist and has been shortlisted for the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradfordlitfest.co.uk%2Fevent%2Fthe-big-book-of-cyberpunk%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/the-big-book-of-cyberpunk/
LOCATION:Bradford Literature Festival\, Bradford Literature Festival\, UK
CATEGORIES:Literary Festivals,Panel
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240630T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240630T113000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240523T073950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240620T075350Z
UID:9796-1719743400-1719747000@laurenbeukes.com
SUMMARY:Worlds Within Words
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9797″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/worlds-within-words/”][vc_column_text] \nVia The Bradford Literature Festival:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \n\n\nConveying a strong sense of place is vital for a reader to know where they are\, when they are\, what’s going on in the wider written world and why. Whether you’re a writer yourself or you just enjoy being immersed in a good book\, our authors will reveal their secrets for creating immersive scene settings and worlds. \nWe’ve brought together Lauren Beukes\, author of bestselling novel\, The Shining Girls\, whose work straddles the speculative and literary\, and celebrated crime author John Connolly\, best known for his PI Charlie Parker series\, to share their best tips and tricks to convey authenticity. \nJoin us to learn how acclaimed writers bring stories vividly to life\, ensuring readers are fully engaged and invested in the narrative. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9791″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://laurenbeukes.com/books/bridge/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning author of six novels\, a collection of short stories\, a pop history about South African women\, and New York Times best-selling comics. Her work has been translated into 26 languages and won prizes across genres from the Arthur C Clarke Award to the Strand Critic’s Choice award and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Her novel\, The Shining Girls\, about a time-travelling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around is now a AppleTV series with Elisabeth Moss. Her latest novel\, Bridge\, about a young woman’s search for her mother across realities is out now.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9798″ img_size=”full”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]John Connolly is author of the Charlie Parker mysteries\, The Book of Lost Things\, The Land of Lost Things\, the Samuel Johnson novels for young adults and\, with his partner\, Jennifer Ridyard\, co-author of the Chronicles of the Invaders. John Connolly’s debut – Every Dead Thing-introduced Private Investigator Charlie Parker\, and launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers. All his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers\, and he has sold more than 8 million copies in English language alone. He was the winner of the 2016 CWA Short Story Dagger\, the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus Award and the first Irish writer to win an Edgar Award. Books To Die For\, which he edited with Declan Burke\, was the winner of the 2013 Anthony\, Agatha and Macavity Awards for Best Non-Fiction work. John writes regularly for newspapers and magazines and hosts a radio show on RTE. He divides his time between Dublin and Portland\, Maine.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradfordlitfest.co.uk%2Fevent%2Fworlds-within-words%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/worlds-within-words/
LOCATION:Bradford Literature Festival\, Bradford Literature Festival\, UK
CATEGORIES:Literary Festivals,Panel
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240616T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240616T160000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240416T135349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240524T081646Z
UID:9731-1718548200-1718553600@laurenbeukes.com
SUMMARY:AI in Pop Culture
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9732″ img_size=”550×450″ onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/ai-pop-culture/?backto=whats-on”][vc_column_text] \nVia The Great Exhibition Road Festival:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \n\n\nG16 Lecture Theatre \n\nSir Alexander Fleming Building\, Imperial College London \n\n\nFrom The Terminator and Black Mirror to the robot friends common in Japanese comics\, hear how writers and movie makers have influenced our expectations of artificial intelligence. \nArtificial intelligence is going to have a global impact. However\, people’s expectations and sense of fear or hope around the potential changes to come vary significantly across the world. \nOn a more local scale\, public views on AI appear highly influenced by the culture they have grown up with and the stories that have been told about ‘intelligent machines’ in film\, TV\, books and art. \nAt the Great Exhibition Road Festival we will trace the history of ‘intelligent machines’ in art and literature\, and explore how different cultural landscapes across the world influence how people envisage an AI future today. From utopian or dystopian\, come find out how your expectations about AI’s impact fit within a global context. \nVisitor Information \nTalks and discussions are intended for an adult audience and are most suitable for ages 14+. \nThis event is part of the Art of Science talk series. The talk will have some advance tickets released to visitors closer to the Festival weekend as well as having drop in spaces on the day. \nIf you have an advance ticket\, please arrive at the venue 10 minutes before the start time. Your ticket gives you priority access\, however\, as this is a free event we overbook to help ensure a full event and your space may be reallocated. Early arrival reduces this risk. \nThis event has step-free access. \nTo attend the Festival\, please make sure to register for free. Registering is the only way to receive the latest Festival updates\, a first look at the programme\, and opportunities to book free tickets for popular events. \n\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”] \nAbout the Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9580″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://laurenbeukes.com/books/bridge/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning author of six novels\, a collection of short stories\, a pop history about South African women\, and New York Times best-selling comics. Her work has been translated into 26 languages and won prizes across genres from the Arthur C Clarke Award to the Strand Critic’s Choice award and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Her novel\, The Shining Girls\, about a time-travelling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around is now a major AppleTV series with Elisabeth Moss. Her latest novel\, Bridge\, about a young woman’s search for her mother across realities is out now. She lives in London with a teenager and two cats.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9698″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://twitter.com/H_O_LLY_MOD_E?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Nikhil Singh is a South African artist\, writer and musician. Former projects include the graphic novels: Salem Brownstone written by John Harris Dunning (longlisted for the Branford Boase Award\, Walker Books 2009) as well as The Ziggurat (Bell-Roberts 2003) by The Constructus Corporation (now Die Antwoord). His work has also been featured in various magazines including Dazed\, i-D Online\, Creative Review\, as well as Pictures and Words: New Comic Art and Narrative Illustration (Laurence King\, 2005). His debut novel Taty Went West was published by Kwani? Trust in 2015\, Jacaranda Books (UK) in 2017\, and Rosarium (US) in 2018. The book was released with an accompanying soundtrack and was shortlisted for Best African Novel in the inaugural Nommo Awards. His new novel Dakini Atoll is a sequel to his 2020 novel Club Ded  which was shortlist for the BSFA and Nommo Awards.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9697″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://maudwoolf.squarespace.com/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Maud Woolf is a Scottish speculative writer with a particular focus on horror and science fiction. While completing an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow\, her unpublished novel was shortlisted for the North Lit Agency Prize. Her work has appeared in a variety of online magazines\, including Metaphorosis Magazine where her short story ‘The Stranding’ was selected to appear in the Best of Metaphorosis 2020. Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock is her debut novel.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gsf_button title=”Register For The Talk” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” el_class=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk%2Fevent%2Fai-pop-culture%2F%3Fbackto%3Dart-science-talks|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/ai-in-pop-culture/
LOCATION:The Great Exhibition Road Festival\, The Great Exhibition Road Festival\, UK
CATEGORIES:Literary Festivals,Panel
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240602T114500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240602T124500
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240411T194905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T194905Z
UID:9695-1717328700-1717332300@laurenbeukes.com
SUMMARY:Thrilling Futures with Lauren Beukes\, Nikhil Singh and Maud Woolf
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9696″ img_size=”670×350″ onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” el_class=”” link=”https://www.foyles.co.uk/events/sci-fi-and-fantasy-panel-may-2024″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \nVia CYMERA:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text el_class=””]From gateways to other worlds to artificial realities to murderous clones\, join us for a thrilling look at the future from the imaginations of Lauren Beukes\, Nikhil Singh and Maud Woolf. \nRunning time: 55 minutes followed by a book signing \nVenue: Pleasance Theatre \nPrice: £11/£8 concession – In Person – or £5.50 Live Stream – (plus 50p booking fee) \nThis event takes place in person and is broadcast via live stream. \nA recording of this event will be available to catch-up on our YouTube until Sunday 14th July 2024. Ticket holders and weekend pass owners will receive the catch-up link automatically after the festival. Please keep an eye on your SPAM. \n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9580″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://laurenbeukes.com/books/bridge/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning author of six novels\, a collection of short stories\, a pop history about South African women\, and New York Times best-selling comics. Her work has been translated into 26 languages and won prizes across genres from the Arthur C Clarke Award to the Strand Critic’s Choice award and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Her novel\, The Shining Girls\, about a time-travelling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around is now a major AppleTV series with Elisabeth Moss. Her latest novel\, Bridge\, about a young woman’s search for her mother across realities is out now. She lives in London with a teenager and two cats.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9698″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” el_class=”” link=”https://twitter.com/H_O_LLY_MOD_E?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Nikhil Singh is a South African artist\, writer and musician. Former projects include the graphic novels: Salem Brownstone written by John Harris Dunning (longlisted for the Branford Boase Award\, Walker Books 2009) as well as The Ziggurat (Bell-Roberts 2003) by The Constructus Corporation (now Die Antwoord). His work has also been featured in various magazines including Dazed\, i-D Online\, Creative Review\, as well as Pictures and Words: New Comic Art and Narrative Illustration (Laurence King\, 2005). His debut novel Taty Went West was published by Kwani? Trust in 2015\, Jacaranda Books (UK) in 2017\, and Rosarium (US) in 2018. The book was released with an accompanying soundtrack and was shortlisted for Best African Novel in the inaugural Nommo Awards. His new novel Dakini Atoll is a sequel to his 2020 novel Club Ded  which was shortlist for the BSFA and Nommo Awards.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9697″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” el_class=”” link=”https://maudwoolf.squarespace.com/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Maud Woolf is a Scottish speculative writer with a particular focus on horror and science fiction. While completing an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow\, her unpublished novel was shortlisted for the North Lit Agency Prize. Her work has appeared in a variety of online magazines\, including Metaphorosis Magazine where her short story ‘The Stranding’ was selected to appear in the Best of Metaphorosis 2020. Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock is her debut novel.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” el_class=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cymerafestival.co.uk%2Fcymera2024-events%2F2024%2F6%2F2%2Fthrilling-futures-with-lauren-beukes-nikhil-singh-and-maud-woolf|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][gsf_button title=”Buy Dakini Atoll” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” el_class=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FDakini-Atoll-Nikhil-Singh%2Fdp%2F1915556341|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][gsf_button title=”Buy Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” el_class=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fangryrobotbooks.com%2Fbooks%2Fthirteen-ways-to-kill-lulabelle-rock%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][gsf_button title=”Buy The Falconer” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foyles.co.uk%2Fbook%2Fthe-falconer%2Felizabeth-may%2F9780575130425|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/thrilling-futures-with-lauren-beukes-nikhil-singh-and-maud-woolf/
LOCATION:CYMERA\, CYMERA\, UK
CATEGORIES:Literary Festivals,Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240526T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240526T123000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240415T150647Z
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SUMMARY:#MCMBloggerBrunch
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nEvent Info Coming Soon\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”full” el_class=”” responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9696″ img_size=”670×350″ onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.foyles.co.uk/events/sci-fi-and-fantasy-panel-may-2024″][vc_column_text] \nVia CYMERA:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text]From gateways to other worlds to artificial realities to murderous clones\, join us for a thrilling look at the future from the imaginations of Lauren Beukes\, Nikhil Singh and Maud Woolf. \nRunning time: 55 minutes followed by a book signing \nVenue: Pleasance Theatre \nPrice: £11/£8 concession – In Person – or £5.50 Live Stream – (plus 50p booking fee) \nThis event takes place in person and is broadcast via live stream. \nA recording of this event will be available to catch-up on our YouTube until Sunday 14th July 2024. Ticket holders and weekend pass owners will receive the catch-up link automatically after the festival. Please keep an eye on your SPAM. \n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][vc_row_inner el_class=”” responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9580″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://laurenbeukes.com/books/bridge/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Lauren Beukes is the award-winning author of six novels\, a collection of short stories\, a pop history about South African women\, and New York Times best-selling comics. Her work has been translated into 26 languages and won prizes across genres from the Arthur C Clarke Award to the Strand Critic’s Choice award and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Her novel\, The Shining Girls\, about a time-travelling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around is now a major AppleTV series with Elisabeth Moss. Her latest novel\, Bridge\, about a young woman’s search for her mother across realities is out now. She lives in London with a teenager and two cats.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner el_class=”” responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9698″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://twitter.com/H_O_LLY_MOD_E?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Nikhil Singh is a South African artist\, writer and musician. Former projects include the graphic novels: Salem Brownstone written by John Harris Dunning (longlisted for the Branford Boase Award\, Walker Books 2009) as well as The Ziggurat (Bell-Roberts 2003) by The Constructus Corporation (now Die Antwoord). His work has also been featured in various magazines including Dazed\, i-D Online\, Creative Review\, as well as Pictures and Words: New Comic Art and Narrative Illustration (Laurence King\, 2005). His debut novel Taty Went West was published by Kwani? Trust in 2015\, Jacaranda Books (UK) in 2017\, and Rosarium (US) in 2018. The book was released with an accompanying soundtrack and was shortlisted for Best African Novel in the inaugural Nommo Awards. His new novel Dakini Atoll is a sequel to his 2020 novel Club Ded  which was shortlist for the BSFA and Nommo Awards.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner el_class=”” responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9697″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://maudwoolf.squarespace.com/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Maud Woolf is a Scottish speculative writer with a particular focus on horror and science fiction. While completing an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow\, her unpublished novel was shortlisted for the North Lit Agency Prize. Her work has appeared in a variety of online magazines\, including Metaphorosis Magazine where her short story ‘The Stranding’ was selected to appear in the Best of Metaphorosis 2020. Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock is her debut novel.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner el_class=”” responsive=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cymerafestival.co.uk%2Fcymera2024-events%2F2024%2F6%2F2%2Fthrilling-futures-with-lauren-beukes-nikhil-singh-and-maud-woolf|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][gsf_button title=”Buy Dakini Atoll” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FDakini-Atoll-Nikhil-Singh%2Fdp%2F1915556341|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][gsf_button title=”Buy Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fangryrobotbooks.com%2Fbooks%2Fthirteen-ways-to-kill-lulabelle-rock%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][gsf_button title=”Buy The Falconer” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foyles.co.uk%2Fbook%2Fthe-falconer%2Felizabeth-may%2F9780575130425|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/mcmbloggerbrunch/
LOCATION:MCM Comic Con London\, MCM Comic Con London\, UK
CATEGORIES:Literary Festivals,Panel,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240525T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240525T164500
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240415T150441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T083514Z
UID:9703-1716652800-1716655500@laurenbeukes.com
SUMMARY:Stranger Than Fiction
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9812″ img_size=”450×450″ onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.mcmcomiccon.com/london/en-us/things-to-do/panels/panels-information.html?gtID=852591&panel-name=Stranger-Than-Fiction”][vc_column_text] \nVia MCM Comic Con:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \n\n\nFrom true crime to current politics to alien life to New Orleans\, join us for a discussion on how authors use research to make their stories believable. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9806″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://laurenbeukes.com/books/bridge/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \n\n\nLauren Beukes is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Shining Girls\, as well as Bridge and Zoo City\, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award\, and more. She’s also a screenwriter\, comics writer\, journalist\, and award-winning documentary maker. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9807″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://adriantchaikovsky.com/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series\, the Echoes of the Fall trilogy\, The Doors of Eden\, The Final Architecture series\, and Alien Clay. Children of Time was the winner of the 30th Anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9808″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.amymccaw.co.uk/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Amy McCaw is a YA writer and blogger. She’s the author of Mina and the Undead and Mina and the Slayers\, YA murder mysteries set in 1995 New Orleans. Amy loves travelling and has a particular affinity for America. She’s visited 29 states\, 13 Man Vs Food restaurants and many bookish locations\, including the cities where Twilight\, Interview with a Vampire and Vampire Diaries were set. Books 1 and 2 in the series are available for review.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9809″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://justinleeanderson.com/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]When not writing or teaching writing\, she can be found rolling the dice as a Dungeon Master or mashing buttons on one of her way too many consoles. Justin Lee Anderson was a professional writer and editor for 15 years before his debut novel Carpet Diem was published and won the 2018 Audie award for humour. His second novel\, The Lost War\, won the 2020 SPFBO award. He lives in Edinburgh and uses real-life history and locations as inspiration for his current novels.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9810″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.katewestonauthor.com/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Kate Weston is an ex-stand-up comedian and bookseller. Her first YA book\, Diary of a Confused Feminist\, was longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2020 and nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Murder On A School Night is her third book for teenagers. In it\, Weston brings together her hilarious feminist humour\, a compelling storyline and incredibly relatable anti-heroines.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcmcomiccon.com%2Flondon%2Fen-us%2Fthings-to-do%2Fpanels%2Fpanels-information.html%3FgtID%3D852591%26panel-name%3DStranger-Than-Fiction|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/stranger-than-fiction/
LOCATION:MCM Comic Con London\, MCM Comic Con London\, UK
CATEGORIES:Book Signings,Literary Festivals,Panel,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240320T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240320T150000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002426
CREATED:20240207T203454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240308T201828Z
UID:9083-1710943200-1710946800@laurenbeukes.com
SUMMARY:Family Lives: Bridge and The Garnett Girls
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Via Oxford Literary Festival: \nBestselling novelists Lauren Beukes and Georgina Moore discuss family relationships\, particularly between mothers and daughters\, and their portrayal in their family dramas Bridge and The Garnett Girls. \nBeukes is author of The Shining Girls\, which has been adapted by Apple TV\, and Zoo City\, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her latest novel is Bridge\, the story of Bridge\, whose maverick scientist mother Jo is dead. She examines everything Jo left behind and finds a big secret\, but is it a drug or a gateway to another world? \nThe Garnett Girls is Moore’s first novel\, and she was chosen as one of the Observer’s ten best new novelists of 2023. The novel is a story of love\, sisterhood and what it means to be home. Margo’s silence over a relationship from the past is keeping her three daughters from finding true happiness. The novel asks whether children can ever be free of the mistakes of their parents.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][gsf_button title=”Full Event Info” style=”link” color=”red” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Foxfordliteraryfestival.org%2Fliterature-events%2F2024%2Fmarch-20%2Ffamily-lives-bridge-and-the-garnett-girls|title:Full%20Event%20Info|target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/family-lives-bridge-and-the-garnett-girls/
LOCATION:Oxford Literary Festival\, Oxford Literary Festival
CATEGORIES:Literary Festivals,Talks
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