Where We Find Ourselves UK Writers Of Global Majority
‘Where We Find Ourselves Poems And Stories of Maps and Mapping from Uk Writers of The Global Majority’. New short story ‘Runway Flower’ published by Arachne Press, edited Sandra A Agard and Laila Sumpton. Out Oct...
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“The whole thing started when I was a child, when the history being taught at school was not the same history that was taught at home. I learnt to manoeuvre through the gaps.”
Read MoreWorking with a publisher
When I think about my publishing journey, I’m not sure I recognise myself now.
Choose your publisher after doing a lot of research. Read submission guidelines over and over. Look at who they have already published. Does their ethos align with yours?
Like most new authors I published with a sense of true fear. I found myself at a friend’s house crying my eyes out. It wasn’t a sense of loss, that I was letting go of the thing that had framed my life, but a sense of letting in. I felt I had exposed myself to all the world and in turn the world would rush at me and judge me to be a bad writer. Of course, no such thing has happened. But when you press send something does change forever. Once the manuscript was done or what I felt was done, I sent it out. I got rejections. And then saw a new scheme being advertised.
Read MoreBook Of Sheffield, Born On Sunday, Silent.
“Born on Sunday, Silent”, a short story in “The Book Of Sheffield” published by Comma Press. The story of a child spirit that wonders through Sheffield’s libraries and archives uncovering her own past. “I fell in love with myself from early on. I fell in love with my name….Kai Akosua Mansah. Do not forget or get it wrong. It tires me me, this casual wrongness, this no need for correction.” By Wasafiri Editor on December 16, 2019 “Sheffield certainly provides rich pickings for writers, as is clear from the ten wonderfully different stories which make up this book. The cemetery is the evocative backdrop for ‘Born on Sunday, Silent’, Désirée Reynolds’s powerful story of the unmarked grave of an African child dating from the early 1900s, and the city’s shameful collusion in a racist and imperial past”. Book Review: The Book of Sheffield “Stories and experiences can lie hidden for all kinds of reasons, and Désirée Reynolds – not an occupant of Sheffield’s past, but of its current generation – digs for a life whose history was deliberately concealed. In Born on Sunday, Silent, she leads an enquiring spirit called Kai Akosua Mansah on a search for lost truths but finds that even Sheffield’s own archives don’t necessarily reveal the full tale.” “Looking for Sheffield’s past was not easy,” she writes. “The things that get left out tell a story all of their own.” Available From...
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