Month: June 2012

Joy Francis (left) with the Have women got Twitter clout? panel/Picture credit: Lee Townsend Women make up 50 per cent of media staff, 50 per… Read more

Our writer-in-waiting has been on the Royal Court Theatre’s Critical Mass Programme, Invitation and Super Groups and has been informally attached to the Clean Break… Read more

Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing and the Open University launches a Poetry Parnassus, with a poet from each Olympic country participating in the… Read more

Sydenham Arts Festival 2012 is currently looking for short plays for its script-in-hand performance Battle of the Bards, taking place on Thursday 12 July. Eight… Read more

The ComedyStudio is a targeted development scheme for black and minority ethnic writers, led by the BBC’s Writersroom. Working across the industry and broadcasters, it… Read more

Ola Awonubi with Wasafiri prize judge Mimi Khalvati in 2009 Since winning Words of Colour Production’s first short story writing competition in 2008 Ola Awonubi… Read more

Book: The Painted Bridge Author: Wendy Wallace Publisher: Simon & Schuster Review by Julie Tomlin Haunting photographic portraits of asylum patients were the spark for… Read more

Theatre Royal Stratford East in collaboration with New World Nigeria has launched 30 Nigeria House, a search for original work from young artists of Nigerian… Read more

During the London 2012 Games Theatre Royal Stratford East will be hosting Nigeria House, which is the hub of all activities promoting Nigeria’s rich and… Read more

David Oyelowo as Joe “Lighting” Little/Picture credit: Momentum Pictures Film: Red Tails Director: Anthony Hamilton Released by: 20th Century Fox Review by Kwame MA McPherson… Read more