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1 writer each month talking about 1 of their works. Brought to you by @WasafiriMag @qmulsed @ace_national created by @malachimcintosh Episode 9 is live! ✨

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So pleased to be able to share our final episode with you all! 🎉🎉

We had the privilege of hearing from Saidiya Hartman on how she sought to find life through the absences in historical archives.

https://t.co/vFu7v2QSM5

@serpentstail @columbia

#WITMonth #writingcommmunity

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We're looking forward to the @AestheticaMag Creative Writing Anthology coming out this December!

The anthology celebrates innovative new writing from across the globe and is filled with the winning and shortlisted entries from their award.

https://t.co/69JNUwlgCt

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Next month sees Craft podcast guest @BernardineEvari speaking with Edward Enninful @McrLitFest. Get your tickets now!

https://t.co/gdTBzrGOU0

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This looks like a great event with @HeatherParryUK from @WigtownBookFest! If you're going to be in the area on the 2nd October, do get yourself along.

https://t.co/fFvuFxCWsc

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What a journey it has been! Thank you again to all our fabulous guests - we literally would be nothing without you!

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Is #throwbackthursday still a thing? How about #thankyouthursday? We'd like to say a huge thank you to all the incredible writers we've had on @craft_podcast over the past year for offering their time, insight+expertise!

You can listen to them all here: https://t.co/LwsQfFlqkO

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And, finally, we spoke with Saidiya Hartman about Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals @serpentstail

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Our penultimate episode was part of #WITmonth where poet and novelist @meenakandasamy explained her routes into and through her translation of Tamil writer Salma’s novel Women Dreaming.

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We were delighted to speak with @thebrownhijabi about Postcolonial Banter
@VervePoetryPres

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And then a woman who needs no introduction: @TheBookerPrizes-winning @BernardineEvari spoke about her first verse novel Lara, published by @BloodaxeBooks

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Then came Rob Nixon, Professor of the Humanities and the Environment at @Princeton. His book, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011), made waves across the academic fields of the humanities and in the world of climate change activism. @HarvardUPLondon

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Our fourth episode was with writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist @johnypitts about his first book Afropean, which won the @jhalakprize in 2020. @PenguinUKBooks

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Then we had Daniel Mella, one of the leading writers in contemporary Latin American literature, with his autofiction novel El Hermano mayor translated into English, by @meganalimcd, as Older Brother @CharcoPress

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Next up was @chenchenwrites who spoke about Nature Poem, published in his collection When I Grow Up, I Want To Be a List Of Further Possibilities @BloodaxeBooks

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First up was @ninamingya speaking about Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai, published by @TheEmmaPress

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Congratulations to Prof Malachi McIntosh on his latest book, a creative cultural chronicle of #BlackBritishHistory - can't wait to read it! 📚🤩 @QMULsed @WasafiriMag @craft_podcast

[dr shelley angelie saggar @j4lebi]

😍fantastic episode from a brilliant writer @ninamingya. ty to the folks at @WasafiriMag - brilliant news as I start the final year of my poco PhD😍

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Congratulations to @j4lebi on winning a one year subscription of @WasafiriMag! 🎉🎉

@j4lebi recommended @ninamingya's episode of Craft podcast, which you can listen to here:
https://t.co/OY5az7ql28

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We think all of our podcast episodes were great (naturally)! But which one left you feeling most inspired or moved?

Let us and a friend know by tagging them in a reply on this post and you could win a year's subscription to @WasafiriMag!

PS. Don't forget to like our page!

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You have until midday BST on Monday to be in win a chance of winning!

Don't forget to follow us and tag a friend in the comments

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That's a wrap on Season 1 of our podcast! To celebrate (/commiserate), we're giving away a 1year subscription to @WasafiriMag!

Simply like our page + comment here telling us which episode from series 1 was your favourite, making sure to tag a friend. Winner on Mon 12 Sept.

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@writingwestmids Thank you!