Description
Don’t miss this inspiring and thought-provoking panel discussion exploring the transformative role technology plays in our lives and literature today.
This special event, in partnership with WritersMosaic, is based on the influential online magazine’s guest edition examining the digital future of writing, inspired by Italo Calvino’s seminal 1967 essay, Cybernetics and Ghosts.
How has technology influenced the way we live? How much does it shape the way we think, read and write in our day-to-day lives? Join WritersMosaic guest editor, Michael Salu, and the guest edition’s contributing writers, including critically acclaimed Nigerian-British author, Irenosen Okojie, and fiction writer and poet, Sara Saab, as they explore human agency in the age of algorithms and the different ways technology empowers us, but also changes our behaviour.
About the Speakers
Michael Salu
Michael Salu is a British-born Nigerian writer, artist, editor and curator. A creative strategist with a strongly interdisciplinary practice, he has produced creative and critical work on technological and geopolitical changes in society and culture. Red Earth, his first book, is forthcoming from Calamari Archive in 2023.
Sara Saab
Sara Saab was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and now lives in north London. Her fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Shimmer, The White Review, and elsewhere.
Irenosen Okojie
Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work combines the surreal and the mundane to create vivid narratives that play with form and language. Her short stories have been published internationally. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, The Observer, The Guardian, the BBC and the Huffington Post. Her debut novel, Butterfly Fish and short story collection Speak Gigantular have won and been shortlisted for multiple awards. Her new collection, Nudibranch is published by Dialogue Books. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Iphgenia Baal
Iphgenia Baal is the author of multiple fiction titles including: Compliances w/Ben Graville (Tooth grinder, 2022) and Man Hating Psycho (Influx Press, 2021). She has contributed to a wide range of countercultural titles including Nervemeter, Schizm, International Times and The White Review. She is also co-founder of the annual short film festival Santa Cruz Short.
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