An Interview with Irenosen Okojie
Irenosen Okojie on writing, diversity in publishing, and her short story collection Speak Gigantular.
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Profiles in Transnational Publishing: ICEVIEW
ICEVIEW is a bilingual English-Icelandic literary journal based in remote northern Iceland. A few months after we met KT Brown, ICEVIEW’s founder and Editor-in-Chief, here in Berlin, she interviewed our Managing Editor Simone about SAND and our own relationship to our local and international communities. Here is an excerpt from the interview: To what extent do you think …
Breaking Ground: British Writers of Colour
On 16 November, Sharmilla Beezmohun of Speaking Volumes will be co-hosting an event at Lettrétage in Kreuzberg as part of the Breaking Ground tour sponsored by Arts Council England. Speaking Volumes will be presenting a very special night with a group of innovative and diverse British writers. Join pioneering performance poet Francesca Beard, award-winning poet Rishi Dastidar, the 2016-17 Young Peoples Laureate …
The British Council Literature Seminar
Bernardine Evaristo, Malika Booker, Irenosen Okojie, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Hari Kunzru, Nikesh Shukla, and Catherine Johnson are all British writers. That is, they are citizens of the United Kingdom, despite familial ties past or present to Nigeria, Germany and Ghana, Ireland and India, Guyana and Grenada. Their collective antecedents include Yoruba Saros, Kashmiri Pandits, Jamaicans, …