Vajra Chandrasekera is a writer, mostly of speculative fiction, from Colombo, Sri Lanka. His debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors is nominated for the Hugo, Lammy, and Nebula awards, won the Crawford Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2023, and his second novel Rakesfall is out in 2024. He has published over a hundred short stories, essays, reviews, articles, and poems since 2012, in half a dozen languages and in publications from the US, UK, India, China, Pakistan, and France among others, ranging from Analog and Clarkesworld to West Branch and The Los Angeles Times. His short fiction has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and collected in prestigious anthology series including The Best Science Fiction of the Year, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, and The Apex Book of World SF. He has worked as an editor for Strange Horizons and Afterlives: The Year’s Best Death Stories, and as a judge for the Dream Foundry Writing Contest and the Salam Award.
He is online at vajra.me and probably on whatever social media still exists at the time you’re reading this.
Vaishnavi Patel is a lawyer focusing on constitutional law and civil rights. She likes to write at the intersection of Indian myth, feminism, and anti-colonialism. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Kaikeyi. Vaishnavi grew up in and around Chicago, and in her spare time, enjoys activities that are almost stereotypically Midwestern: knitting, ice skating, drinking hot chocolate, and making hotdish.
Find Vaishnavi on X and Instagram @vaishnawrites
This event will be chaired by Vida Cruz.
About the event
Running time: 60 minutes
Price: £5.50 - (plus 50p booking fee)
This event takes place in Zoom Webinar.
A 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.
Joining us at the Pleasance? We will be showing the digital events on a big TV in the Music Room. Free with a weekend pass, or please purchase a £5 digital ticket.
