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NEW: OTHERS to be published by Unbound
Others celebrates how words can take us out of the selves we inhabit and show us the world as others see it. Fiction writers and poets will make us look out through other pairs of eyes; essayists will probe the mental blocks that can make it hard to see the realities beyond the media bubbles. Others anthology themes will be the brutal consequences of intolerance and hatred, as in one shattering story of a racist hate crime. Other pieces will explore the quieter forms of otherness that go with deafness, disability, and mental distress. Our failure to stand in other pairs of shoes is most catastrophic when it goes with imbalances of power. But great writing can also illuminate ordinary kinds of otherness, by taking us into points of view we might not otherwise have been able to enter: those moments when, thanks to the magic of words, people are less strange to each other, or we glimpse something of the strangeness of our own selves.
Contributors include: Damian Barr, Noam Chomsky, Rishi Dastidar, Peter Ho Davies, Louise Doughty, Salena Godden, Colin Grant, Sam Guglani, Matt Haig, Aamer Hussein, Anjali Joseph, AL Kennedy, Joanne Limburg, Tiffany Murray, Sara Nović, Edward Platt, Alex Preston, Tom Shakespeare, Kamila Shamsie and Will Storr,
Profits from the book will be donated to the charities Refugee Action and Stop Hate UK.
https://unbound.com/books/charles-fernyhough-others
NEW: The BEST Poetry Book In The World - published by Burning Eye November 2017! Anthology of the best spoken word and performance poetry in the UK, celebrating five years of hip indie publisher Burning Eye Books. It's a bumper annual of all of your favourite live and lively poets. A perfect stocking filler for Christmas!
http://burningeye.bigcartel.com
The Good Immigrant published by Unbound Books. 21 essays by 21 diverse writers and thinkers and poets on what it means to be BAME in 21st century UK. Edited by author Nikesh Shukla, this book was crowdfunded in record time and will be touring the UK. This anthology features an essay titled Shade by Salena Godden, it is a deeper delve into some of the events and issues of race and identity that were explored in her childhood memoir Springfield Road. Audio book and paperback published May 4th 2017.
https://unbound.co.uk/books/the-good-immigrant
Bare Lit anthology, published by Brain Mill Press, edited by Courttia Newland Mend Mariwany and Kavita Bhanot. In support of the Bare Lit Festival, showcasing award-winning British authors of colour. Features Blue Cornflowers by Salena Godden which was shortlisted for the BAME Guardian short story prize.
http://www.brainmillpress.com/books/bare-lit/
NEW: The BEST Poetry Book In The World - published by Burning Eye November 2017! Anthology of the best spoken word and performance poetry in the UK, celebrating five years of hip indie publisher Burning Eye Books. It's a bumper annual of all of your favourite live and lively poets. A perfect stocking filler for Christmas!
http://burningeye.bigcartel.com
Untitled Two published by Neu Reekie and Polygon Books. A vibrant and colourful anthology of poetry and performance from the excellent Neu Reekie crew based in Edinburgh. A beautiful collection of international voices, new faces and poetry heroes. Features rant poetry My Tits Are More Feminist Than your Tits by Salena Godden.
http://www.birlinn.co.uk/UntitledTwo-Neu-Reekie.html
An Unreliable Guide To London published by Influx Press. This is a wonderful and richly diverse collection of colourful London short fiction and urban myth and legends. An amazing line up of writers of note, a warm celebration of this colourful city. Features The Camden Blood Thieves a short and bloody story by Salena Godden.