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

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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

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Books News Autumn and Winter 2023

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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

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

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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

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Still resonating: Resonanzen Literature Festival 2022

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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

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African and Afro-Diasporic Literature Center Stage.
An Interview with InterKontinental Publisher, Translator and Bookseller Venice Trommer

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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