For so long, Black women’s stories and memory have often been ignored, erased, and neglected in and out of academia. However as Jaimee A. Swift writes, 2018 showed itself to be a year of reclamation of Black women’s narratives, agency and memory. From our MD Academic Space “No Black woman writer in this culture can… Read More
Jhalak book prize for writers of colour announces 2018 longlist
The prize, which was founded in 2017 releases a stunning list of works by British writers Read More
Byron was a poet, Jay-Z can’t be: academia’s marginalisation of black art
Alex Mason illustrates academia’s marginalisation of black art forms and argues that this relates to lower attainment amongst students of colour in higher education Read More
What’s the point of a literature festival? | Bare Lit 2017
by Henna Zamurd-Butt Literature festivals don’t have a point, right? Or at least not one that can get into the writing and move it around. The text is fixed on paper and pixel by the time we get to discussing it. Perhaps for the literary establishment the text is fixed, but here where Bare Lit… Read More
Interview: Peter Kalu on Black and Asian Writers Walking Confidently Within a Changing World
We pick the brains of author Peter Kalu, who runs the annual Black and Asian Writer’s Conference, about the book industry, the need for more diversity in the arts, and the challenges facing writers of colour in the UK today. Read More
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