My white English grandparents
Louisa Adjoa Parker
It’s not the done thing – a white middle- class woman marrying a black man – her parents are opposed to the marriage.
Surprising Joy
Valerie Bloom
After their school holidays, Joy and Nadine head into the bushes in Jamaica where they can cook breadfruit, swim in the river and surrender to joy, unbound by adults.
Do you see yourself as a black writer?
Roy Williams
As well as being a small tribute to one of my literary heroes, Langston Hughes, this piece explores my personal journey as a Black British writer in an attempt to answer that question for myself.
The difference between a PhD and being a full-time writer
Nick Makoha
On passing go and becoming transformed by a different kind of education
After Chapel 1902
Charlotte Williams
The adventures of Lula and Marged, freed from the chapel gloom - an extract from Charlotte Williams's work in progress
An olive grove in ends
Moses Mckenzie
Sayon, the protagonist of Moses McKenzie’s debut novel, dreams of escape from the mean streets of Ends to buy a grand house overlooking the Avon Gorge but it comes with a catch: he needs to sell enough lines of heroin to put down a substantial deposit.
Playing with time
Carol Russell
On how we use time in our craft to explore our past, present, and future