Author Interview: Rion Amilcar Scott
“Gains can be reversed. It’s 2017 and we’re discussing voting rights again, after all.” Rion Amilcar Scott in conversation with Noah Klein.
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Paxi: A New Business Empowering Women in Pakistan
“The Pink Taxi service… launched in March 2017 in Karachi and is already seeing an overwhelmingly positive response.” Ifra Asad reports on Paxi.
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Author of the Month: Ama Asantewa Diaka
“We write so we do not have memory alone to rely on, so that we do not forget — who we are, where we have come from and all the things that we can be.”
Ama Asantewa Diaka, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month (January 2017), talks to Jacob Silkstone.
Author of the Month: Joshua Schouten de Jel
“The influence of poets on a fiction writer’s work is another reason to read widely and to experience a variety of genres and styles.†Joshua Schouten de Jel, our October Author of the Month, talks to Mehreen Fatima Ashfaq.
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Spotlight Translator: Rosie Hedger
“I don’t think there has ever been a better time for publishers to focus on translated literature…”
As part of our Spotlight Translator series, Jacob Silkstone interviews Rosie Hedger.
Poet of the Month: Nathalie Handal
“It’s important our works are read beyond the wreckages of where we come from…”
Nathalie Handal, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Pratyusha Prakash.
Author of the Month: DC Diamondopolous
“I get up every morning and write. After that I go for a long walk and come back and write until late afternoon. I like structure. It helps me with being creative.” DC Diamondopolous, our August Author of the Month, talks to Quinn Korreck.
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Author of the Month: Awais Khan
“Writing can be lonely business, but if you have friends who write too, well that changes the picture completely.” Awais Khan, our July Author of the Month, talks to Ebony E. Chinn.
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Author of the Month: Zsuzsa Selyem
“For me, art is interested in discovering more and more connections between the different phenomena of life.” Zsuzsa Selyem, our June Author of the Month, talks to Rushda Rafeek.
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Poet of the Month: Kim Yideum
“I don’t want to have an identity. I am just one of the regular people who carry wounds and sadness with them, but try to recover and live. I believe in the dignity of ordinary life.”
In our August Poet of the Month interview, Kim Yideum talks to Katy Lewis Hood (via translator Ji Yoon Lee).