Chigozirim Nwaosu is a PhD candidate in English Literature in the School of Literature and Languages at the University of Surrey (UK). Her research focuses on the intersectionality between race, gender and sexuality and how it affects contemporary societies. In this episode, Chigozirim discusses the representation of gender and sexuality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2009…
What can fictional representations of blocked short story writers teach us about writer’s block and what causes a writer to feel blocked? Andrea Marzocchi discusses these questions with Aaron Colton, Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of English at Emory University in Atlanta, and author of Writing Through Writer’s Block: Lessons from Modern American Fiction,…
I was very grateful (and shocked) to win the Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction for my story ‘Late Velvet’. The prize is run by Comma Press and the University of Central Lancashire, and this year the theme was ‘the unspoken’. The judges were Alison Moore, Joseph Hunter, Robert Duggan, and Jacques Tsiantar. The shortlisted…