Talk Like a Man: Afrofuturist SF&F with Nisi Shawl
Channel: Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair
Date: 2021-05-29

Nisi Shawl will read an extract from her new collection of previously uncollected stories Talk like a Man (available from PM Press https://pmpress.org.uk/product/talk-like-a-man/). Followed by a Q&A with Robert Kiely.

A cutting-edge Afrofuturist icon whose politically charged fiction is in the grand feminist tradition of Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, and Suzie McKee Charnas.

“Nisi Shawl tells stories as if they have just awakened from a vivid and terrifying dream, and they’re intent on relating its details.” —Seattle Times

Nisi Shawl, Black author of PM Press's Talk Like a Man, also wrote the 2016 Nebula Award finalist Everfair, an alternate history of a fictional Utopia in the Belgian Congo. Shawl edited the anthology New Suns: Speculative Fiction by People of Color, winner of multiple awards including the Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Brave New Words awards. In 1999 they cofounded the representation-in-speculative-fiction-focused nonprofit Carl Brandon Society, and in 2005 they cowrote Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, now a standard text on inclusivity. For over twenty years they've served on the board of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. They live in Seattle and take frequent walks with their cat.

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Robert Kiely is the author of simmering of a declarative void (2020) and Incomparable Poetry, an essay on the financial crisis of 2007-8 and Irish literature (2020). He was Poet in Residence at Uni. of Surrey from 2019-21.