The 12 - Karina Lickorish Quinn

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises: writing and publishing the multiplicity of British voices.

Karina will be speaking about her writing practice in writing multilingually and about the wider importance of writers learning to write their voices and editors publishing a multiplicity of voices.

Biography

Karina Lickorish Quinn is a Peruvian-British writer and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway University of London. Her debut novel The Dust Never Settles (Oneworld, 2021) explored Peru’s hauntedness by its colonial past. Her second book, a novella called The House of Skin (Stanchion, 2023) is a work of literary horror. Her second novel, The River Dies Quietly, will be published by Oneworld in 2025. Her short prose has been published widely including in Wasafiri, The White Review, The Offing, Palabritas, and the Journal of Latina Critical Feminism. She was featured in Un Nuevo Sol, the first major anthology of British-Latinx writers. She is working on her third novel. Karina also researches how to teach writing in ways that welcome children and young people’s many home languages and dialects into the classroom.

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Visit www.karinalickorishquinn.co.uk

Everyone is welcome!