The SI Leeds Literary Prize is now open for entries. The biennial award is for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women residing in the UK and has a prize fund over £3,000. In its inaugural year, the £2000 first prize was awarded to Sri Lankan writer, Minoli Salgado, who heard about the prize …
Amish Tripathi
Best selling author Amish Tripath talks to The Asian Writer
Sathnam Sanghera
Sathnam Sanghera talks about his debut novel, Marriage Material
Nikesh Shukla
The Asian Writer caught up with Nikesh Shukla to talk about his new food novella, The Time Machine
Palo Stickland
Author, Palo Stickland answers five questions about her first novel, Finding Takri
Bangladeshi Feminism and Shabnam Nadiya’s ‘Teacher Shortage’ in Lifelines
The normative definition of feminism is the endorsement of women’s rights, particularly that of achieving equality to men. This could be political, social, economic or even cultural for that matter. Feminism and Bangladesh. Two words that differ from the emergence of Britain’s New Woman during the Fin-de-siècle, the Western World’s First-Wave women’s suffrage movement and …
Shabnam Nadiya
Shamika Shabnam has just finished her degree in English at University of Leicester. Whilst studying she was working on an e-placement at The Asian Writer. I tell her about Lifelines, an anthology of short stories written and edited by Bangladeshi women. She shakes her head. She hasn’t heard of it. I promise to bring a …
Reflection on A dialogue on British Asian writing un-conference
It’s not everyday that you enter a room filled with emerging British Asian writers so there was a certain anxiety and trepidation as I took my seat at the table at the recent un-conference hosted by Nicole Thiara of Nottingham Trent University and Kavita Bhanot, editor of Too Asian, Not Asian Enough. The agenda had …
One minute with David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang’s Obie Award-winning Pulitzer prize finalist play Yellow Face will run for four weeks in the purpose built brand new state-of-the-art theatre in North London. Designed by David Hughes’ Architects, the theatre opened its doors for the first time earlier this month . In Yellow Face, art imitates life to great and amusing effect in …
Sweta Srivastava Vikram
The Asian Writer caught up with poet extraordinaire, Sweta Vikram to talk about her latest collection, No Ocean Here