“I hear some places in the world prettier than Popisho, but I can’t believe it.”
Please join us to celebrate the publication of Leone Ross's spellbinding new novel, This One Sky Day, with special-guest appearances from Irenosen Okojie and Nikesh Shukla. Hear all three writers read from This One Sky Day, a sensual meditation on the nature of love and addiction and a dazzling feat of imagination set over twenty-four hours, and put your questions to them in this heartfelt, incisive and magical panel event.
Irenosen Okojie and Nikesh Shukla will also be reading from their own work, Nudibranch and Brown Baby respectively. All three books are available from Libreria with a special 20% discount here.
Leone Ross will be introduced by Dr Louisa Joyner, her editor at Faber, and will be in conversation with journalist and writer Kevin Le Gendre. The event will be hosted by Melanie Abrahams, literature curator and founder of Renaissance One.
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Leone Ross was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. Her first novel, All the Blood Is Red, was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and her second novel, Orange Laughter, was chosen as a BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hour Watershed Fiction favourite. Her short fiction has been widely anthologised and her first short-story collection, the 2017 Come Let Us Sing Anyway was nominated for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Saboteur Awards and the OCM BOCAS Prize. Ross has taught creative writing for twenty years, at University College Dublin, Cardiff University and Roehampton University in London. She is editor of the first black British anthology of speculative fiction, due out in 2022 with Peepal Tree Press. Prior to writing fiction, Ross worked as a journalist. Leone Ross lives in London but intends to retire near water.
Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British writer. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, the Observer, the Guardian, the BBC and the Huffington Post amongst other publications. Her short story collection Speak Gigantular , published by Jacaranda Books, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. She was recently inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature as one of the Forty Under Forty initiative.
Nikesh Shukla is an author, screenwriter, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and one of the most prominent UK voices on diversity and inclusion in the arts. He is the editor of bestselling essay collection The Good Immigrant, which was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. He is the author of novels for adults and young adults including Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award), Meatspace, Run Riot, The Boxer (longlisted for the Carnegie Medal) and co-editor of The Good Immigrant USA. His memoir Brown Baby was published in 2021, and the book along with a podcast of the same name explores how we can raise our kids with joy and wonder in uncertain and bleak times.