Rise Up!
Date: Saturday 13 April 2024
Time: 12.30-9pm
Venue: Leeds Playhouse
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Look to the Windrush Generation and explore how they, their legacy, and their art have shaped the UK.
Rise Up is a one day festival that showcases the rich Caribbean heritage of Leeds and beyond.
Among the winners of the 2023 Bermuda Literary Awards is Angela Barry, who won the Brian Burland Prize for Fiction for her novel The Drowned Forest. In the novel, told in the voices of its five main characters, Angela Barry brings to vivid life the conflicts and possibilities of change in Bermuda as it emerges from the old colonial order of white privilege.
Azúcar and Nightbloom at Oxford Literary Festival
with Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Peace Adzo Medie; chaired Suzi Feay
Date: Saturday 23 March 2024
Time: 12-1.15pm GMT
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Seni Seneviratne has shared recordings of two poems with Poems on the Underground to celebrate World Poetry Day on Thursday 21 March 2024.
Jane Steele, a friend of the press and the SI Leeds Literary Prize, was recently awarded a touring grant for her play, Wondrous: A Celebration of Life.
Wondrous is a celebration of a life refracted through the sometimes hair-raising story of a mixed-race, working-class Yorkshire woman. Intertwining comedy and tragedy, spoken word and song, it portrays answered questions and (un)belonging, turning poison into medicine and finding jewels in life’s darkest, most unlikely corners.
Peepal Tree is proud to be taking part in The Poetry Society’s Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair. Free Verse celebrates the vitality of poetry in the UK – it’s a day of conversation and shopping, an unrivalled opportunity to browse the very best in contemporary poetry publishing and to meet publishers, organisations and poets.
Adam Lowe's poem "She's on the Ching Again" from Patterflash has been published online in Five Dials. You'll also find a vivid, colourful illustration that suits the poem's flavour to a tee.
We are thrilled to announce that Nii Ayikwei Parkes' novel Azúcar has been longlisted for the Jhalak Prize.
First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize and its new sister award Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize founded in 2020, seek to celebrate books by British/British resident writers of colour.
Equal to Mystery by Christopher Laird and Ocean Stirrings by Merle Collins have both been longlisted for the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize!
The OCM Bocas Prize, now in its 14th consecutive year, is highly prestigious and recognises books in three genre categories — poetry, fiction, and literary non-fiction — published by authors of Caribbean birth or citizenship in the preceding year. Five different countries and territories are represented among the authors of the nine books longlisted for the 2024 Prize.
by Jeremy Poynting
