Otherworld

A speculative fiction gathering of authors and readers

Thrilled thrilled thrilled to announce this event. Fellow fantasy author Shameez Patel Papathanasiou and I have been working on pulling this together for a few weeks now and I am delighted by the outcome.

I mentioned Otherworld’s origin story in May so there’s no reason to repeat that here, but it is worthwhile reiterating the need for more eyeballs on local speculative fiction authors – if only to remind people like myself that there are more than three local writers in this space.

While it’s not an exhaustive list of authors, obviously, attendees will be seeing Anoshi Saretzki (Julhuan), Faziela Harris Davids (Bound by Fire), Jon Keevy (The Unwoven Warrior), Mitchell Lüthi (Pilgrim), Nerine Dorman (The Serpent’s Quest), Shameez Patel Papathanasiou (Selene Trilogy), Kerstin Hall (Mkalis Cycle), Mia Arderne (Mermaid Fillet), Mohale Mashigo (Kwezi, Marvel, DC), Tallulah Lacy (Key Flame) and myself with The Fulcrum and The Akashic Records of The Last People as Written by Neko. Not to mention two publishers, Colleen Higgs from Modjaji and Marius du Plessis from Mirari Press.

So it’s pretty exciting.

Which brings me to this little nugget I found the other day. The term “speculative fiction” is often misunderstood, but author Annie Neugebauer’s got a great post on it here and created this nifty graphic…

So now you know.

Anyway.

We’re enjoying a few days of winter here which is nice. I never thought I’d be a winter person, but there’s something about this place I’m in currently that just lends itself to cosiness. Also, I think the fact that there is so little storm in the Cape of Storms (thanks climate change!) makes me appreciate it more when it’s here.

Not to mention the fact that I like drinking water, and get happy when it falls from the sky and into the shallow pockets we’ve dug in the ground to collect it. I’d prefer that we don’t all dehydrate and die in a drought. Call me basic, but there you go.

Chat next week. Thinking of writing something Meaningful.

t