It’s the most wonderful time of the year: October for me is the time of the Birmingham Literature Festival. This year, it was celebrating its 25th anniversary with an even bigger range of authors, topics and locations – from the location at the Rep in the Birmingham city center, the […] Read more
The Resonanzen Literature Festival in Recklinghausen in May 2022 was the first festival dedicated to Black writing in German that took place in a mainstream or white institution. It was hosted by Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen and curated by the novelist and activist Sharon Dodua Otoo, who published her first German novel […] Read more
I had the great pleasure of attending this year’s Birmingham Literature Festival. After a ‘pandemic break’ (that also gave us their fabulous “Birmingham Lit Fest Presents…” podcast) and a one-day festival version last year, the 2022 edition of #BLF took place at the Birmingham REP (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), bang in […] Read more
InterKontinental started off as a literary agency and organized the first African Book Festival in Berlin in 2018. Since then, they have also opened a bookshop that specialises in African literatures and literature from the African diaspora. In 2022, the multitalented team launches their new independent press: InterKontinental Publishing House […] Read more
The war that Russia leads against Ukraine continues to horrify me as do the whole discussion about military spending and armament; and I’ve not been able to write anything helpful or insightful about this topic. This short blog won’t be either. My thoughts and solidarity are with the people who […] Read more
Have a nice break and see you on the other side! P.S.: I really enjoyed these bookish ornaments by @lacyloveslit and am sharing the picture and link here (with Lacy’s kind permission) to spread the joy 😉 Sieh dir diesen Beitrag auf Instagram an Ein Beitrag geteilt von Lacy […] Read more
Today, I have the great honour to join the blog tour for Neil Bartlett’s Address Book, published on 4 November by the fabulous indie publisher Inkandescent, with this review. In Address Book, we experience seven different stories set in different times and places, including a flat in Clerkenwell in 1891 […] Read more
Please join us for an online reading with the Manchester-based writer Okechukwu Nzelu! Monday, 29 November 2021 17h Berlin time, 4pm UK time on zoom (registration details below) His debut novel, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney (Dialogue Books), won a Betty Trask Award. It was also shortlisted for the […] Read more
In the summer of 2021, indie publisher Inkandescent published MAINSTREAM. An Anthology of Stories from the Edges. As Aliya Gulamani (Spread the Word / Unbound) wrote in her foreword: “They wanted to create an anthology unrestricted by theme and subject that celebrated talented writers and the stories they wanted to […] Read more
