Published work Innovative Small Publishers Around the World I just wrote a quick post for OZY Books highlighting 10 innovative small publishers from Australia to Brooklyn that are worth watching.
Reading Review: Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing "This book is about my life and maybe also your life. And it is about the places we invent. Every story in…
Thinking The Prison of Perfection In the earlier years of this blog, I blogged more regularly because I didn't put much pressure on myself to make each…
Thinking Black History Month 2048 Celebrating airbrushed versions of the heroes of the past is easy. A more urgent task is to identify and support the heroes…
Reading “H is for Hawk” by Helen Macdonald: Review H is for Hawk is a beautiful evocation of grief and the way in which the sudden death of a loved on…
Reading “Tram 83” by Fiston Mwanza Mujila: Review It isn't every day that you get to read a Congolese novel in English. In fact, the last time it happened, the country was…
Literary events Help fund a new piece of collaborative refugee fiction Help fund a Kickstarter campaign for Shatila Stories, a collaborative piece of fiction by nine refugee writers from the Shatila refugee camp…
Reading “In Praise of Hatred” by Khaled Khalifa: Review The transition from childhood to adulthood can often be tough. It must be even harder when you're a teenage girl in Syria…
Published work New short story published Belated news that I had a short story published earlier this year by a small Australian publisher, In Short Publishing. The story…