Author of the Month: Chika Unigwe
“We are always changed by our new homes and those changes affect how / what we write.” Chika Unigwe, our May Author of the Month, talks to Mehreen Fatima Ashfaq.
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Author of the Month: Lorna Brown
“I wanted to examine the people on the fringes of society, and how others’ perception of them led them there. Society can be unforgiving.” Lorna Brown, our April Author of the Month, talks to Casey Harding.
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Spotlight Poets: Alexis Groulx & Domenic Scopa
“For us, the poet, it can seem our entire lives up to this point depend on getting it right, and when we finally feel it’s ready, and we send it off, get it published, and see it in print, we usually realize we made the wrong call…” The Missing Slate talks with Alexis Groulx and Domenic Scopa.
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Poet of the Month: Julia Rose Lewis
“Travelling back and forth is a privilege, but I’ve developed a sort of chronic homesickness. So I use writing about the place I’m longing for as an antidote; I see islands as stories and stories as islands.” Julia Rose Lewis, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month for June 2016, in conversation with Katy Lewis Hood.
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Author of the Month: Nnamdi Oguike
“Quite frankly, there are times when I hear or play a good piece of music or sing a song and wish I could write a story as good as the music.” Nnamdi Oguike, our March Author of the Month, talks to Casey Harding.
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Poet of the Month: Kadija Sesay
“Britain is a small island, and (it thinks) it can only handle one successful Black artist at a time…” Continuing our Poet of the Month series, Kadija Sesay talks to Jacob Silkstone.
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Poet of the Month: Theophilus Kwek
“Form appeals to me as an open-ended conversation with the history of language…” Our Poet of the Month series returns with a conversation between Afshan Shafi and Theophilus Kwek.
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Tracing Ink in China
“My curiosity was piqued: Who are the people getting tattoos? Who is doing the tattooing? And, are there any female tattoo artists?” Jill Boyles looks at the growing tattoo trend in China.
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An Interview with My World Project Founder, Karen Hunt
“As a child, I lived in other countries, way back in the 1960s, when it wasn’t common to see a child from Los Angeles attending a village school in a far off place — it still isn’t common, I’m sure.” Constance A. Dunn interviews Karen Hunt.
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Spotlight Writer: Jerry Wilson
“First, let me say I’ve never had any interest in successful, well-adjusted people.” Jerry Wilson, author of ‘A Kind of Kaddish’, in conversation with Sébastien Doubinsky.
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