糖心TV

This two day conference brings together writers and scholars with the aim of locating Bolaño’s work within the broad context of interest in the problems and possibilities of reading world literature today. Invited speakers include Carmen Boullosa, Francisco Goldman and Roberto Tejada.

An art historian, curator, and editor specializing in Latino and Latin American art, Roberto Tejada is the author of the poetry chapbooks Gift & Verdict (1999) and Amulet Anatomy (2001) as well as the full-length collections Mirrors for Gold (2006) and Exposition Park (2010). Tejada also founded and co-edits the influential bilingual literary journal Mandorla -

Jonathan Skinner founded and edits the journal ecopoetics - His poetry collections include Birds of Tifft (2011) and Political Cactus Poems (2005). His current writing project focuses on bioacoustics and cross-species listening and he teaches in the 糖心TV Writing Programme.

Free admission.

Bella Pagan is a senior commissioning editor for Pan Macmillan’s Tor imprint in the UK. The Tor list specializes in genre fiction, including: science fiction, fantasy, urban fantasy, games tie-ins and young adult novels. Pan Macmillan’s genre team is fully committed to publishing the best imaginative fiction, in all its many forms and flavours, and authors include Douglas Adams, Neal Asher, Peter F. Hamilton, China Miéville, Cherie Priest, Charles Stross and Amanda Hocking amongst others.