Two contributors to the INSCRIBE Writers anthology Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry have been nominated for the Jhalak Prize: Roy McFarlane and Raymond Antrobus.
Longlist
The 2019 longlist is:
Roma Agrawal, Built : The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures (Bloomsbury)
Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of the Empire (Two Roads)
Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins)
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff (ed.), Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children (Headline/Hachette)
Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible (Penguin)
Aminatta Forna, Happiness (Bloomsbury)
Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City (Tinder)
Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging (Vintage)
Damian Le Bas, Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain (Chatto & Windus)
Roy McFarlane, The Healing Next Time (Nine Arches)
Onjali Q. Rauf, The Boy at the Back of the Class (Hachette Childrens)
Sharlene Teo, Ponti (Picador)
