Letters to a Writer of Colour: Essays on Craft, Race and Culture by Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro (editors)
£14.99
Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of colour.
• Taymour Soomro on resisting rigid stories about who you are
• Madeleine Thien on how writing builds the room in which it can exist
• Amitava Kumar on why authenticity isn't a license we carry in our wallets
• Tahmima Anam on giving herself permission to be funny
• Ingrid Rojas Contreras on the bodily challenge of writing about trauma
• Zeyn Joukhadar on queering English and the power of refusing to translate ourselves
• Kiese Laymon on hearing that no one wants to read the story that you want to write
• Deepa Anappara on writing even through conditions that impede the creation of art
272 pages
Paperback
Size: 215mm x 20mm x 135mm