Name: An Evening with Nalo Hopkinson, Speculative Fiction ‘Grand Master’
Start: 2025-02-06T18:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-02-06T20:30:00-08:00
Location: Upstart & Crow Studio

Description

Spend an evening with Nalo Hopkinson, the brilliant speculative fiction writer and youngest ever winner of the Science Fiction Writers of America’s Grand Master award. Hear a reading from her latest story collection, Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions, and take the opportunity to ask her your questions. We’ll have on hand for sale and signing!

This event is free, but please RSVP here for your spot as capacity is limited.

More about Upstart & Crow:

Located on Granville Island, Upstart & Crow is a not-for-profit literary arts studio for curious readers and creative storytellers alike. We are international in our outlook, and local in our sensibilities. We create opportunities to surface new talent and champion bold ideas through events, workshops, literary launches, unique partnerships — and yes, we also sell books!

Accessibility:

The main studio of our shop is accessible for folks with mobility aids. There is a washroom on the main floor available for attendees.

Questions: hello[at]upstartandcrow.com.

Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions

Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson is an internationally beloved storyteller. This long-awaited new collection of her deeply imaginative short fiction offers striking journeys to far-flung futures and fantastical landscapes.

[STARRED REVIEW] “A joyous celebration of Hopkinson’s abiding legacy as a titan of both speculative fiction and Caribbean literature.” — Publishers Weekly

In Nalo Hopkinson’s first collection of stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke out a living in a future waterworld; two scientists contemplate the cavernous remains of an alien life-form; a trans woman at a funeral might be haunted by more than just bad memories; and an artist creates nanotechnology that asserts Blackness where it is least welcome and most needed.

Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having “an imagination that most of us would kill for,” Hopkinson and her Afro-Caribbean, Canadian, and American influences shine in truly unique stories that are gorgeously strange, inventively subversive, and vividly beautiful.

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Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson was born in Kingston, Jamaica and spent her childhood in Trinidad and Guyana before her family moved to Toronto when she was 16. In 1997, Hopkinson won the Warner Aspect contest for Brown Girl in the Ring, and she received the John W. Campbell and Locus Awards for Best First Novel. Her collection Skin Folk received the World Fantasy and Sunburst Awards. The Salt Roads received the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for positive exploration of queer issues in speculative fiction. The New Moon’s Arms also won the Prix Aurora and Sunburst Awards, making Hopkinson the first author to receive the award twice.

In 2020, Hopkinson was named the Damon Knight Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, and is the youngest and the first woman of African descent to receive this lifetime honour. As a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside, she was a member of the Speculative Futures Collective. Hopkinson is currently a professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, and she lives in Vancouver.