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A #thread of books exploring racism and race. It includes fiction, poetry, non-fiction because we need to hear many voices.
These are UK-centric because we are here trying to dismantle white supremacy in Britain.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatterUK https://www.jhalakprize.com/the-prize
These are UK-centric because we are here trying to dismantle white supremacy in Britain.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatterUK https://www.jhalakprize.com/the-prize
Our 2020 winner #Afropean by @johnypitts https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/may/footnote-afropean-johnny-pitts-Jhalak-prize/
#Remembered by @YBattleFelton https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/yvonne-battle-felton/remembered/9780349700472/
#Queenie by @CandiceC_W https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Queenie/Candice-Carty-Williams/9781501196027
#TheBlackFlamingo by @DeanAtta https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/dean-atta/the-black-flamingo/9781444948592/
Our 2019 winner, #InOurMadAndFuriousCity by Guy Gunaratne: https://www.headline.co.uk/titles/guy-gunaratne/in-our-mad-and-furious-city/9781472250223/
#MotherCountry by @CharlieBCuff https://www.headline.co.uk/titles/charlie-brinkhurst-cuff/mother-country/9781472261885/
#TheTerrible by @YrsaDaleyWard https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/563909/the-terrible-by-yrsa-daley-ward/
#TheHealingNextTime by Roy McFarlane (at @NineArchesPress) https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/the%20healing%20next%20time.html
Our 2018 winner: #WhyImNoLongerTalkingToWhitePeopleAboutRace by @renireni https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race-9781408870587/
#Kumukanda by @KayoChingonyi https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1112511/kumukanda/9781784741396.html
#BoneReaders by our inaugural winner @rosswriterj (And the brand new #BlackRainFalling): https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/jacob-ross/the-bone-readers/9780751574463/
#SpeakGigantular by @IrenosenOkojie https://www.jacarandabooksartmusic.co.uk/products/speak-gigantular
#Orangeboy by @LawrencePatrice https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/patrice-lawrence/orangeboy/9781444927207/
#BlackAndBritish by @DavidOlusoga https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/david-olusoga/black-and-british/9781509837113
#AnotherDayintheDeathofAmerica by @garyyounge https://www.faber.co.uk/books/non-fiction/9781783351022-another-day-in-the-death-of-america.html
LOADS more of our longlists at our website. Buy and read their books. Follow the writers here. We have included their handles.
We keep seeing tweets about how well intentioned white people can't find our voices.
Now there is no excuse: https://www.jhalakprize.com/
We keep seeing tweets about how well intentioned white people can't find our voices.
Now there is no excuse: https://www.jhalakprize.com/
Also LOADS more writers here on our TL and our following list. Look us up. We are in plain sight. You just choose to not see us!
So if you really mean #BlackLivesMatterUK, listen to the voices that speak eloquently, loudly, constantly, but you choose to unhear.
So if you really mean #BlackLivesMatterUK, listen to the voices that speak eloquently, loudly, constantly, but you choose to unhear.
