Day of appearance – Saturday
Kenechi Udogu is a Nigerian-born London-based writer and architect. Augmented won the inaugural Imagined Futures Prize for young adult eco science fiction. She was Highly Commended in the FAB Prize and a runner up for the Writers and Artists Yearbook Your Next Obsession in YA Fiction Competition. Kenechi is an alumna of the HarperCollins Author Academy and the All Stories mentorship programme. She was longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and her sci-fi short story was published in Dark Matter Magazine.
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Panel information – “But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia” – Margaret Atwood
The modern dystopian genre has been around since the 1920s and YALC have welcomed many of the authors of this topic over its 10 years. We continue with 2025s cohort of dystopian titles and look forward to hearing about the reflections we are seeing in today’s society across the pages of these popular books
Josh Silver – Chair, Kenechi Udogu, Moira Buffini