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The Amplify Project

Pauline Walker

Black Writers in their own words | Strangeness as Metaphor

DEC 15, 202369 MIN
The Amplify Project

Black Writers in their own words | Strangeness as Metaphor

DEC 15, 202369 MIN

Description

The Amplify Project.  Black writers in their own words.  We’ve invited writers for the stage, page and screen to tell us about themselves, their work, what inspires them and why they write. In this episode writers Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker are joined by novelist, short story writer, editor and educator Leone Ross. She is the author of This One Sky Day (UK), Popisho (USA), All The Blood is Red, Orange Laughter and short story collection, Come Let Us Sing Anyway and editor of Glimpse: A Black British Anthology of Speculative Fiction.

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