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New prize hopes to discover ‘sorely underrepresented’ crime fiction writers

7 January 20217 January 2021Farhana Shaikh

HarperFiction has launched a new competition to encourage submissions from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic writers. Killing It: The Killer Reads Competition for [...]

New prize launches for fiction writers of colour

16 December 202016 December 2020Farhana Shaikh

Avon Books UK has partnered with Silé Edwards at Mushens Entertainment to launch a competition exclusively open to un-agented, unpublished writers of colour. [...]

Review: Just So You Know

3 December 20203 December 2020Farhana Shaikh

Just So You Know, a collection of essays by underrepresented writers from Wales, instantly transports you to a world different to your own. [...]

Books

Vikram Seth’s epic novel makes screen debut

30 July 20202 October 2020Farhana Shaikh

Set in vibrant 1950s India, A Suitable Boy, an epic tale of life and love based on the classic novel of the same [...]

Kia Abdullah: Why I set up Asian Booklist

30 July 20202 October 2020

Book review: A Cure for a Crime by Roopa Farooki

22 July 202022 July 2020

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