Gratitude
by Lemn Sissay
A message of gratitude for the late Eric Huntley
A trail through the archive of Black British history
by Lanre Bakare
An overlooked canon of Black British literature waiting to be uncovered
The gift of time
by Salena Godden
'There is nothing like the first 1,000 or so words, those first voices, the wild ideas and unfiltered dialogue scribbled into notebooks'
Didi
by Meredith Davis
'My Grandfather did not let the world harden him. His eyes, which have greyed with his hair, shine like buttons when he laughs.'
Gentle Euphoria
by Patricia Cumper
A rare chance to rejoice in the collective craft of writing
Ideas are like rabbits
by Mona Dash
‘Ideas are like rabbits, you get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you will have a dozen’
Soundsystem as pedagogy
by Roger Robinson
'You left recalibrated. Heartbeat altered. Shoulders lowered.'
Bad Signal
by Anthony Anaxagorou
'All language use can be seen as extending a hand; words and their corresponding meanings are always about relationships'
When journalism is silenced
by Juliet Gilkes Romero
What is the responsibility of the writer?