“I am desi, and I belong, in my own way, to a broader global community”

Usha Rungoo, a Mauritian writer, scholar, teacher, speaker, and mother, has won the 2024 Commonwealth Prize for the Africa region.

Bollywood meets literature: Sanjana Thakur’s ‘Aishwarya Rai’ charms the Commonwealth

Indian writer Sanjana Thakur has been announced as the overall winner of the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, a prestigious global literature award. The 26-year-old from Mumbai triumphed over 7,359 entrants worldwide to claim the £5,000...

Hachette network for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) employees Thrive launched the fiction development programme in partnership with David Higham Associates, The Future Bookshelf, Spread the Word and Hachette UK’s adult trade divisions.

The HarperCollins Traineeship, set up to help address underrepresentation in HarperCollins and in the wider publishing industry, is open for applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates for the fifth year running. Applications...

On Sunday 14th June, Afua Hirsch alleged The Sunday Times of racism. Hirsch tweeted a screenshot of the publication’s review of her book Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging. She was supported by writer Nikesh Shukla who has previously...



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