I had a spectacularly good time at Bare Lit, the UK’s first literary festival celebrating the works of BAME writers. It was SUPER fun.

At least I was having fun

I was on the SFF panel, (Re)writing Pasts & Futures, along with authors Tendai Huchu, Haris Durrani and Tosin Coker, moderated by Patrick Vernon. I really enjoyed it — entertaining readings, engaged audience, great questions. And while it was definitely what I think of as a “diversity panel” — we weren’t talking about a general topic...