Book review: A Cure for a Crime by Roopa Farooki
The cover A Summary The Cure For a Crime is about the twins, Ali and Tulip, whose Mum has got a strange new
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Interviews, reviews and first person pieces on South Asian literature and writing.
Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction now open for entries
The Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction, a short story award which promotes science fiction and related genres is now open for entries. Now
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Life in Prison: Time for a new point of view
by Farah Damji I helped to set up The View Magazine, a publication by and for women in the criminal justice system, with
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Review: The Tainted by Cauvery Madhavan
by Leela Soma Set in South India, in the tiny cantonment of Nandagiri The Tainted by Cauvery Madhavan traces the lives of the
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Writing Flash Fiction
by Jude Higgins Flash fiction is a form of short short fiction that, in recent years, has been growing in popularity worldwide. To
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Vaseem Khan: My Writing Living
With falling author earnings it is common for writers to supplement their income with teaching or part time work. But the portfolio career
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Review: Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy
Meena Kandasamy’s latest novel, Exquisite Cadavers began as a response to her second novel, When I Hit You. It follows the story of
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Writer of the year: Meena Kandasamy
In her breath-taking new novel, Exquisite Cadavers Meena Kandasamy raises the curtain and invites the reader into what is often seen as a
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Review: Crossroads Festival, Saturday 5 October 2019
Rehearsal Room 1 of Leicester’s Curve Theatre has mirrored walls, free-standing doors, and a staircase to nowhere. An appropriate setting for the inaugural
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Shreya Sen-Handley on writing Strange
Toni Morrison said that if the book you want to read isn’t out there, write it yourself. So I did. I wrote it
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