Sharon Dodua Otoo first rose to prominence nearly a decade ago when her first and only short story in German won the most prestigious award in the language.
Interviews
“I define justice as something we give ourselves”: A conversation with Leila Mottley
Leila Mottley bounces into the hotel waiting room to meet me. I waste no time with my questions on Nightcrawling, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022, making this twenty-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
“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 Daré
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.
“Children’s books should be for all children”: A conversation with Jasmine Richards
Storymix is an inclusive fiction studio with social purpose that creates high-quality, original concept series with inclusive casts of characters, putting children of colour at the centre of the action.
“We’re not getting fresh voices, we’re getting fresh faces”: A conversation with Formy Books
What makes Formy Books different is that they are an independent, family-run CIC (Community Interest Company). The core team consists of Editorial Director, Curtis Ackie, and their partner, Ebony Lyon serving as Head of Marketing.
“I wanted to write about how we might have evolved without white hegemony”: A conversation with Okezie Nwọka
Okezie Nwọka on what inspired God of Mercy, the difficulties of duality, and adapting Igbo language and culture for the foreign page.
“I needed to write a book that reflected reality”: A conversation with Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström
Lola Ákínmádé Åkerström talks freely about how In Every Mirror She’s Black upends mainstream ideas about Nordic society and her difficult journey to publication.
“I want the book to create space in our imaginations”: A conversation with Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
The Sex Lives of African Women paints a liberated tapestry of sexual identities across the sexuality, gender, political, religious, geographic, ethnic, and even racial spectra.
“I hope Black girls leave the book feeling that alrightness”: A conversation with Tamara Winfrey-Harris
Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping into Your Power speaks directly to Black girls, and women, showing us that anything is possible and we are 'alright'.
“I grew up obsessed with this alternate version of myself”: A conversation with Safia Elhillo
Safia Elhillo on the inspiration behind Home is Not a Country and writing a world that reflects the one she grew up in.
“I am not a planner”: A conversation with Chibundu Onuzo
Borne out of her doctoral research on the West African Student Union of 1920s London, Sankofa marks a departure from Chibundu Onuzo's first two novels.
“I learned to read between the lines”: A conversation with Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is a veteran of historical fiction whose pioneering work has put Afro-Latinx history on the literary map.