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Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds is part of a research project that asks how reading British fiction and poetry shapes our sense of identity in Britain today.
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Dr. Nhlanhla Dube (PhD) 🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼 Ranga Mataire This is the interview, one I am including in my upcoming essay collection. I did a wonderful event with Ben Okri and Nilanjani Roy for the Financial Times, I am including that. I also did an brilliant interview with Elleke Boehmer. I'm including that too. johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2017/09/04/exc…

Elleke Boehmer Faculty of English Writers Make Worlds Dr Karina M. Szczurek I have just been reading that transcript again, and I am blown away all over again. I cannot wait to share with you my new novel, BALLANTYNE PARK, so we can talk all over again. I appreciate you Elleke, and your writing, Thank you.

Ten-Minute Book Club week 3 is up! Tinashe Mushakavanhu of St Anne's College and Faculty of English brilliantly introduces the literary work of writer and leader Ndabaningi Sithole, who wrote the first Zimbabwean English novel. english.ox.ac.uk/article/ndaban… #tmbc TORCH Oxford

An unforgettable evening of sharing and discussing poetry and its political resonances from the State of Play anthology, beautifully curated by Jennifer Wong. With 兔兒神, Lora Supandi, Natalie Linh Bolderston and Sarah Howe. English Faculty Outreach Writers Make Worlds



So very sad and sorry to hear of this great loss to literature. Rest in peace Benjamin Zephaniah. Thank you for visiting Writers Make Worlds in 2021 and for the insights you shared. You were and will remain a great force for good.

📢Thank you Elleke Boehmer for these beautiful words📢 Breaking Milk by Dawn Garisch is now ready to PRE-ORDER on our website: heloisepress.com/book/breaking-… Catrina Wessels Read More Women Women Writers Network Africa Institute in Ireland womenwriters


Book at Lunchtime: "Authorship, Activism and Celebrity" @18CenturyScobie Sandra Mayer University of Oxford 31 January Humanities Division "Cutting Edge" Oxford History Faculty of English OxfordBrookesEnglish سوجى Oxford Students Bloomsbury Books UK Elleke Boehmer @malachimcintosh torch.ox.ac.uk/event/book-at-…



We're delighted to host Professor Rodwell Makombe this term as a Visiting British Academy Fellow. We interviewed him to find out more about his research interests and how he'd found his time at Oxford. Elleke Boehmer #postcolonialstudies english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/interv…

Delighted that Faculty of English shared short author interviews and selected excerpts from State of Play anthology online with an event recording featuring an earlier dialogue between selected contributor poets with Elleke Boehmer. Pls check this out. english.web.ox.ac.uk/interviews-wit… ✨

It's good to be back! We're delighted to feature a new essay by Jennifer Wong, 'Rethinking cultural identity and belonging: East and Southeast Asian Poets writing in and beyond Britain', which discusses her important anthology, State of Play. writersmakeworlds.com/essay-wong-sta…

New on WMW: an exhibition report by Eliza McCarthy of the recent Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music at the British Library, which explored "the radical potential of Black British music to draw communities together" writersmakeworlds.com/exhibition-rep…

Wishing the happiest of birthdays to Jackie Kay! In celebration, we are publishing a new interview by C. J. Griffin and Amrita Shenoy in which Kay reflects on the craft of writing and her career over the last thirty years. writersmakeworlds.com/on-being-a-wri…

New on WMW! A report by Zana Mody on The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998 exhibition at the Barbican Centre writersmakeworlds.com/the-imaginary-…

We're so excited to be back with a new and much-awaited profile of Hanif Kureishi by RuvaniRanasinha! Find out more about an author who 'has redefined British multiculturalism and what it means to be British' writersmakeworlds.com/hanif-kureishi/