NEW FICTION BY WOMEN & NON-BINARY BIPOC - MY YEARLY READING SERIES WITH THE READER BERLIN
Photo by Jan Radtke
READERS!
I’m delighted to be hosting a summer reading series with The Reader Berlin. We’ll be discussing novels and novellas – from debuts to established voices. We’ll look at issues of craft, style, language, authorship, as well as the politics of reading in our times, including questions of methodology and canonization. Participants will meet online once every fortnight to discuss texts. They will be supported throughout the experience by an online Slack forum and a Zoom Meet Up, which I’ll be hosting, curating, and moderating. If you can’t join the course, you are warmly invited to read along with us anyway! I am organizing bursary spots fo BIPOC/non-binary POC writers/readers and/or anyone who is financially constrained.
*If you’re not sure you fit the criteria for a bursary, please be in touch.
The Reading List includes works by the following selected authors: Akwaeke Emezi, Hanya Yanagihara, Diane Evans, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Meena Kandasamy, Sayaka Murata, Leila Slimani, and Celeste Ng.
Be in touch via divyaghelani@gmail.com or hello@thereaderberlin.com
Learning to de-canon, to unravel, to un-do, to reconsider, to make and dismantle … to raise awareness and to read in ways that are full of possibility …
Reading stories by Women & Non-Binary POC with critical care. To read with a consideration of craft, the politics that shaped these texts and now surrounds them, attention to style, language, voice, point of view, and more. An intimate online reading space that is carefully moderated to create an inclusive and joyful environment.