Features – Page 6 – The Asian Writer

Interviews, reviews and first person pieces on South Asian literature and writing.

Sabrina Mahfouz: The Things I Would Tell You

The Things I Would Tell You is a collection of new writing by British Muslim women, edited by writer Sabrina Mahfouz. The project [...]

Poet in residence at Radio 4, Daljit Nagra will curate a series of new commissions in response to Europe’s second oldest poem, Homer’s [...]

Lawyers are experienced wordsmiths so it should come as no surprise that a new wave of novelists come from the profession. Are they [...]

Q. Tell us about your journey into writing crime fiction? Firstly can I just say thank you so much for this, it’s a [...]

by Nilopar Uddin A damp evening in Manchester’s Dean Street, and Waterstones is brimming with eager faces. Speaking to the women sitting around [...]

by Tehseen Baweja How do you help somebody break free from the shackles of orthodoxy and conformity? This is a very real and [...]

Here be Monsters! They lurk and crawl and fly in the shadows of our mind. We know them from ancient legends and tales [...]

Here be Monsters! They lurk and crawl and fly in the shadows of our mind. We know them from ancient legends and tales [...]

Tell us more about your journey as a poet? When did you start writing poetry and when did you start performing? I think [...]

Nikesh Shukla is one of the most exciting voices of our time. I remember when I interviewed many years ago. He was just figuring [...]