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Nov 16, 2015 · Nalo Hopkinson shares some tips for how to use language to make your fiction really come alive. Lesson by Nalo Hopkinson, animation by Enjoyanimation. View full lesson:...
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Hopkinson has a Master of Arts degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, where she studied with her mentor and instructor, science fiction writer James Morrow. She has learning disabilities.
The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story. But as a writer, how do you suck your readers into your stories in this way? Nalo Hopkinson shares some tips for how to use language to make your fiction really come alive.
Mar 21, 2013 · Nalo Hopkinson is trying to mess with your mind. The much-lauded writer of science fiction and fantasy sits at one of her favorite Mexican joints, Tio’s Tacos, a funky art-strewn restaurant...
Nalo Hopkinson is an award-winning Jamaican-born Canadian author, editor, and educator. Her published works include the novels Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, and Sister Mine, as well as the short fiction collections Skin Folk and Falling in Love With Hominids.
Apr 1, 2024 · NALO HOPKINSON was born December 20, 1960 in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up there and in Trinidad and Guyana, though she also spent some time in the US as a child. Her father was noted Guyanese poet Muhammad Abdur-Rahman Slade Hopkinson. She moved with her family to Toronto, Canada in 1977, where she lived until relocating to Riverside CA in 2011.
Jul 17, 2024 · More recent writers include Bruce Sterling, who spent some of his teenage years in India; Jeff VanderMeer, part of whose childhood was in the Fiji Islands; and Nalo Hopkinson, who was born in Jamaica but also lived in Guyana and Trinidad before immigrating to Canada.