Guest Speakers 2022

We are delighted to announce that our two evening guest speakers are Thomas Glave (Friday) and Hannah Lowe (Saturday)

Thomas Glave

Thomas Glave is the author of four books and the editor of Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (Duke, 2008). An associate editor of Wasafiri, he is the 2021 writer in residence at the University of Liverpool’s Centre for New and International Writing, a University of Liverpool Honorary Professor, and a trustee of Writing West Midlands (UK). A member of the Transition editorial board, his work has recently appeared in The White Review and is forthcoming in Small Axe. He is a professor of creative writing and Caribbean studies at SUNY-Binghamton and a 2021–22 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Nottingham.

Hannah Lowe

Hannah Lowe is a poet, memoirist and critic. She was named a Poetry Book Society Next Generation Poet in 2014 and won a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2020. Her first poetry collection, Chick (20130, won the Michael Murphy Poetry Prize. Her latest, The Kids, a PBS Choice for Autumn 2021, was shortlisted for the 2022 TS Eliot Prize. She is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Brunel University. www.hannahlowe.me