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Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction now open for entries

4 July 20204 July 2020Farhana Shaikh

The Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction, a short story award which promotes science fiction and related genres is now open for entries. Now [...]

Crime writer shortlisted for major literary prize

11 June 2020Farhana Shaikh

Crime writer Abir Mukherjee has been shortlisted for a major literary prize. Mukherjee’s third book, Smoke and Ashes is one of six titles [...]

Life in Prison: Time for a new point of view

20 May 202020 May 2020guest

by Farah Damji I helped to set up The View Magazine, a publication by and for women in the criminal justice system, with [...]

Books

Authors shortlisted for top literary prize

28 April 20204 July 2020Farhana Shaikh

Debut novelist Emma Smith-Barton and Costa winner Jasbinder Bilan have been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Emma’s novel The Million Pieces [...]

Review: The Tainted by Cauvery Madhavan

27 April 20204 July 2020

Review: Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy

19 December 20194 July 2020

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