Rebecca Higgie and Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes are off to Ubud

Award-winning authors Rebecca Higgie (The Book of the After) and Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes (Trials of Hope (የተስፋ ፈተና)) are taking their stories overseas to the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival.

Taking place across four days in October, the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival brings together over 150 creatives across more than 100 events in Indonesia.

Rebecca will be appearing at Imagining Future Fiction on 22 October and How to Speak to Planet Earth on 24 October, speaking on climate fiction and speculative worlds.

Yirga will be appearing at Our History, Our Hands on 22 October and The Violence of Culture on 24 October, joining discussions on writing lived experience, how communities resist cultural erasure in the face of colonialism, and how histories can be reclaimed and retold.

View the full Ubud Writers & Readers Festival program here: https://www.ubudwritersfestival.com/