WHAT WE DO
bigblackbooks is the blog for black readers, writers, and publishers which is currently on a temporary hiatus.
We publish short-form, journalistic piece like reviews, opinion, reading lists, book extracts, interviews, and so forth both by authors and emerging writers. We often do a series spotlight on a trending genre.
We also release a creative issue every year. Our issues select the most promising emerging writers and put them in conversation with the big, established voices.
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We are always looking for ways to build up our vibrant literary community and are open to collaborative work with similarly-minded partners. Readers, writers emerging and established, publishers, and others, get in touch at . Kindly note here we only feature Black books and authors.
LATEST
On Black Love: Why I deleted the apps
In a post-covid world, dating apps are widely regarded as the main avenue for single people to find romantic partners. Everyone, it seems, is on the apps togel arizona88 — but I hate them.
‘A Black Book’: Watching American Fiction
I believe in questioning my actions and those of my community. Our actions set the new normal, determining the range of our existence and the integrity of our storytelling.
“The world is more interlinked than we think”: A conversation with Sharon Dodua Otoo
Sharon Dodua Otoo first rose to prominence nearly a decade ago when her first and only short story in German won slot gacor and the most prestigious award in the language.
Confrontations: The Function of Black Female Rage
Confrontations asks us to question why our anger must be ‘productive’ rather than ‘destructive’. It asks what happens to the women possessed by an innate anger that refuses to be subdued.
My Darling from the Lions: A Critical Reading
Dark, sensual, whimsical, and razor-sharp, My Darling from the Lions is a remarkable collection with plenty to say and the gift of saying it in a fresh way pengeluaran macau.
5 Fun Facts about Yinka with Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
From the blog post that inspired her to Yinka’s abiding love for her local chicken shop, Lizzie Damilola Blackburn gives us five fun facts about one of the first Black British romantic comedies.
FEATURED
The Nail Polish Theory: I broke up with my boyfriend when he started wearing it
literary, queer
For a long time I thought she’d insulted me. Today I think she was trying to define me. “Pédé” must have been the only word she knew. It was the only word she had.
Have book clubs changed the nature of publishing?
book industry
The new book club has an exteriority about it. In an ever more global arena where publishers seek to keep up with a trend-led, terminally online world, reading communities are no longer intimate. With buzzwords being used to herd individuals into categories which not only reflect, but also dictate their tastes, consumerism is now more than ever a game of group identity.
Confrontations: The Function of Black Female Rage
translation, womanism
Being a Black woman means extinguishing your anger to avoid being labelled the ‘Angry Black Woman’. Confrontations asks us to question why our anger must be ‘productive’ rather than ‘destructive’. It asks why only men are allowed anger, and what happens to the women possessed by an innate anger that refuses to be subdued.
ISSUE 1
"The Sign in the Restaurant Window"
by Debra Stone
Growing up I never doubted how the world worked. We were three among the hordes of chocolate-colored children in 1960s northside Minneapolis.
"anti-capitalist poem"
by Yasmeen Tajiddin
"The Only Black People in Memoirs Written By White People“
by Deesha Philyaw
Welcome, everyone, to The Only Black People in Memoirs Written by White People Reunion! I’m Jerica Bryant, your reunion founder and co-chair.
THE TEA
“I define justice as something we give ourselves”: A conversation with Leila Mottley
coming-of-age, literary
Nightcrawling was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022, making this 20-year-old the youngest author ever to have been nominated.
“She wrote exactly how it was to live, love, and be in endz”: A conversation with Lemara Lindsay-Prince
coming-of-age, womanism
“For so many of us Black Brits, the anonymous writer of Keisha The Sket—Jade LB—is as fundamental to the canon as Shakespeare or Dickens.”
A rapid fire Q&A with Abi
womanism, coming-of-age
In her latest conversation with her favourite author, literary influencer Hena J. Bryan (some know her as Bookish Babe) asks the questions we’ve all been wanting answered.