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Life in Prison: Time for a new point of view

20 May 202030 July 2020guest
by Farah Damji I helped to set up The View Magazine, a publication by and for women in the criminal justice system, with [...]

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 20208 February 2021guest
by Leela Soma Set in South India, in the tiny cantonment of Nandagiri The Tainted by Cauvery Madhavan traces the lives of the [...]

Writing Flash Fiction

1 March 20208 July 2020guest
by Jude Higgins Flash fiction is a form of short short fiction that, in recent years, has been growing in popularity  worldwide. To [...]

20 Books by Asian authors to read in 2020

26 February 202024 January 2021Farhana Shaikh
Brace yourselves, 2020 sees Asian authors returning to what they know and love: literary fiction. I don’t remember a time quite like it. [...]

Vaseem Khan: My Writing Living

26 February 20208 February 2021Farhana Shaikh
With falling author earnings it is common for writers to supplement their income with teaching or part time work. But the portfolio career [...]

Review: Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy

19 December 20198 February 2021Farhana Shaikh
Meena Kandasamy’s latest novel, Exquisite Cadavers began as a response to her second novel, When I Hit You.  It follows the story of [...]

Writer of the year: Meena Kandasamy

19 December 20198 February 2021Farhana Shaikh
In her breath-taking new novel, Exquisite Cadavers Meena Kandasamy raises the curtain and invites the reader into what is often seen as a [...]

Indian writers dominate The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature shortlist

25 November 201924 April 2020Farhana Shaikh
Indian writers once again dominate the shortlist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019, which was announced earlier this month (November [...]

Review: Crossroads Festival, Saturday 5 October 2019

21 November 20198 February 2021guest
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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