South Asian Literary Festival

FREE Online Literary Festival bringing authors of South Asian background 28-31 May. Full prog in link 👇🏼 Organised by @drpragyaagarwal Coming again in 2021

[South Asian Literary Festival @SAsianLitFest]

Why a South Asian Literary Festival, you might ask. A video I recorded for elsewhere but might be useful for some here.

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

Many congratulations to @niven_govinden @nktgill @NeemaMShah on publication of three superb books today. (Something about the letter ‘N’ in the air!) 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉Do go and check their books out to bring plenty of hope and joy during these locked-in days.

[Preti Taneja @PretiTaneja]

New book. Would never have wanted this to be the subject - but so glad it’s in such incredible hands. Won’t be talking about it too much on here, so this one is just to say Thank you @transitbks @DGALitAgents. And 💙@cambridgecrim @ACLudlow @JustisTogether #JackMerritt

[Bloomsbury Books UK @BloomsburyBooks]

What is the human cost of shame?

#TheGoodGirls by @soniafaleiro returns to the scene of the short lives and shocking deaths of two young girls that sparked a national conversation about sex, honour and violence.

📔 https://t.co/gW0T5ZwGIP

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

Excited to see (M)otherhood in @thebookseller highlights. It is my story as a brown woman (we do not hear many of these) but also an intersectional analysis: hopefully honest & intimate but universal at same time. It is about so much. Nerve-wracking to see it becoming a reality.

[Brown Don’t Frown Podcast 🎙 @BDFpodcast]

📣 #Podcast EP 29 w/ @adiba_j is finally here! Adiba is the author of 'The Henna Wars', and 'Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating'. She shares with us her journey from Bangladesh, to Saudi Arabia to Ireland, her sense of identity & belonging + her motivations for writing. 🙌🏾 🌈

[South Asian Literary Festival @SAsianLitFest]

This is exactly the ethos of this platform and festival, to support authors, to create a community.

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

My copies of #WWKWTS: Talking with children about race are here this morning. 🎉🎉🎉

So unbelievable to see them in print. Can’t believe we made this happen!!

[Lucy Writers' Platform @LucyWriters]

Adania Shibli’s 'Minor Detail' is brutal in its exploration of political violence towards women and the normalisation and erasure of this when it comes to national memorialisation, writes Selin Genc.

Read @ladybacchante's review here: https://t.co/xifyHFx1GD

[Manasi Subramaniam @sorcerical]

I had the incredible pleasure of reading an advance copy of the English translation of @sumanyoga's novel (translated from the Turkish by Elizabeth Goksel: The Silence of Scheherazade, out 2021 from @HoZ_Books), and I get to chat with her about it today! Details below.

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

This is printed out on a random paper & stuck next to my desk & I often sit quietly & stare at it because my 4 yr olds have started asking such ques & I keep wondering what it will take for them to feel ok being them in the sort of world that we're living in right now @mirajacob

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

I’m going to be bringing interviews with authors of colour in my newsletter to help diversify reading lists 1. If you‘re an author of colour with a book published recently let me know & I’d love to interview you 2. Pls send recommendations
@SAsianLitFest
https://t.co/p3cIzVZdDt

[Diasporastan @diasporastan]

🎙️NEW EPISODE🎙️

Our first guest! Dr Ahmad @brisofa spoke a/t sustaining an academic career as a S.Asian Muslim in precarious faculty positions through personal upheavals, department politics, and recently, a redundancy that was rescinded after advocacy from colleagues, unions.

[South Asian Literary Festival @SAsianLitFest]

If anyone is writing or planning a non-fiction book 👇🏼👇🏼

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

I am doing a ‘researching for non-fiction’ masterclass in 3 weeks time. There will also be opportunity to join a virtual ‘write your book’ bootcamp for non-fic writers that you’d be welcome to join in. DM me if you’d like to join. And share with anyone interested. Thanks.

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

RBG was a huge personal inspiration for me with her relentless drive for gender equality & her views on motherhood. She showed that one doesn't have to be loud to make a difference, that being a 'difficult woman' is one we all need to aspire to. https://t.co/2wmvQziApS

[Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival @BudleighLitFest]

Behavioural scientist and activist @DrPragyaAgarwal explains how unconscious bias, racism and gender inequality affect the way we communicate, how we perceive the world and our decision making.

Available here ➡️ https://t.co/SVj4qTfVnZ from 2pm.

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

4 yr old: ‘Mummy’s book’

Ventured out and such have been our recent times that this is the FIRST time I’ve seen my book published early April in a bookshop. In an actual bookshop with my own eyes. @newsfromnowhere

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

I have a book coming next month. It would be so good if you pre-order and share with others. Hopefully it will help anyone who is responsible for a child to navigate those somewhat complex - but very crucial- conversations around race, racism and racial identity. 👇🏼👇🏼

[Lucy Writers' Platform @LucyWriters]

In @Kashianasingh's beautiful poem, ‘Pagri/Paggar/Pagadi/Pagg Turbans’, a father slowly folds his turban in front of his daughter, the intimate act of which is akin to the gradual unravelling of a poem.

Read her poem here: https://t.co/61r5IBVRNP

#LifeinLanguages #translation

[Jasbinder Bilan - I'm meant to be writing... @jasinbath]

My new novel TAMARIND & THE STAR OF ISHTA is out in September! You can preorder it here:
Amazon: https://t.co/T6aY7xmY3X
Waterstones: https://t.co/2PDcJd4wcv
Hive: https://t.co/jnvyrtkPzs

[Jaspreet Kaur @behindthenetra]

My amazing friend and soul sister @priyaatwal will be speaking about her incredible new book 'Royals and Rebels' next week 📚

Grab your free ticket here https://t.co/yuHrcMeTl0