eine Bühne voller strahlender Menschen, die gemeinsam das Resonanzen-Festival gestaltet haben. Im Hintergrund eine blaue Blume mit dem Schriftzug Resonanzen

Resonanzen 2024 – Bewegung im Kopf und im Herzen

17. December 2024Sandra van LenteEvents, Festival, Indie Publisher, NewsLiteraturfestival, Resonanzen, Resonanzen24

Einige Eindrücke vom Resonanzen Literaturfestival 2024 und eine Ankündigung zum Buch rund ums Festival (Literarische Diverse, 2024). Read more

image of birmingham literature festival programme: collage of city landmarks by the artist cold war steve

Birmingham Literature Festival – 25 Years of Celebrating and Supporting Writing from the West Midlands

31. October 2024Sandra van LenteBookshop, Events, FestivalBirmingham, Birmingham Literature Festival, UK

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 Hidden Colonial Bias of the Anglophone Literary Field in Berlin: Student Output II

20. June 2024Gesa StedmanBookshop, Controversies, Indie Publisher, Initiative, Interview, reception, Rewritingactivism, Berlin, bibliodiversity, bookselling, Centre for British Studies, diversity, indie bookshops, indie publishing, interview, representation, stereotypes

Outputs from a recently completed student project seminar on the Anglophone literary field in Berlin are published on The Literary Field Kaleidoscope. A zine, a podcast, an ethnographic diary, and an academic poster explore questions of subtle (or less subtle) forms of exclusion in the lively English-speaking Berlin book world. […] Read more

Student Projects and the Anglophone Literary Field in Berlin

16. February 2024Gesa StedmanBookshop, Controversies, News, Students' CornerAnglophone literary field, Berlin, bibliodiversity, bookselling, Centre for British Studies, diversity, indie bookshops, publishing, representation

Outputs from a recently completed student project seminar on the Anglophone literary field in Berlin are published on The Literary Field Kaleidoscope. A zine, a podcast, an ethnographic diary, and an academic poster explore questions of subtle (or less subtle) forms of exclusion in the lively English-speaking Berlin book world. […] Read more

Books News Autumn and Winter 2023

17. December 2023Gesa StedmanAllgemein, Bookshop, Controversies, Events, Indie Publisher, News, Overview, Prizes, women writersBerlin, book fair, booker prize, bookselling, events, prizes, publishing

Gesa Stedman rounds up the rest of the year’s book news, ranging from the controversies at the Frankfurt Bookfair to the impact of the cost of living crisis, the every-increasing commercialisation of the book world and The Bookseller reflecting that, and recent prize winners, most of whom were white men […] Read more

a picture of a detail of statue: a hand is writing with a pen on a pile of paper

Spring and Summer Book News 2023

25. September 2023Gesa StedmanNewsindustrial action, literary festival, literary prizes, sponsorship, strike

In her usual round-up of news, Gesa Stedman discovers new controversies after a lull in events in the UK literary field. From strikes to gender debates, 2023 has seen a number of topics resurface, with all-time favourites such as authenticity and gender issues getting another airing. Read more

two posters on a wall: one is black and has lots of white letters in chaos, adverstising an event about Black German writer May Ayim. The second poster has a yellow background and a colourful illustration of Black British Writer Bernardine Evaristo, a Black Woman with natural afro hair. The poster advertises the British Council Literature Seminar.

British Council Literature Seminar 2023

4. July 2023GuestEvents#BritLit23, #BritLitBerlin, Bernardine Evaristo, British Council, class, Daljit Nagra, Joelle Taylor, Kit de Waal, UK, Wayne Holloway Smith

Our guest author Frauke Harms attended the 2023 British Council Literature Seminar and shared her experience with the Literary Field Kaleidoscope. As with so many events since the pandemic, the Literature Seminar 2023 organised by the British council took place for the first time in person again this year. Centred […] Read more

Book News Autumn and Winter 2022

16. March 2023Gesa StedmanAllgemein, Column, News, Overview, Prizesbibliodiversity, bookselling, indie publishing, publishing, representation, UK

Gesa Stedman rounds up the news from the past winter months, with a report on the loss of revenue for the big publishers, successes for the independent alliance, the ongoing and in political terms, rather worrying, BookTok phenomenon, as well as news of prize winners, bestsellers and some hope for […] Read more

the german word "resonanzen", resonance, written in purple on light blue and light purple ground. the "a" in the word is intertwined with the other letters and connects them

Still resonating: Resonanzen Literature Festival 2022

21. October 2022Sandra van LenteEvents, NewsBlack German writing, connections, empowerment, literature festival, Resonanzen

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

Reading with Kit de Waal 1 November 2022 5pm

21. October 2022Gesa StedmanNews

Kit de Waal will read at the Centre for British Studies on 1 November 2022 5pm. Please join us on 1 November 2022 at 5pm and come to the Centre for British Studies at Mohrenstr. 60, 10117, room 105, to hear Kit de Waal read from her recently published […] Read more