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English author and academic (born 1959)

Bernardine Evaristo OBE FRSL FRSA
Evaristo suspend 2018
Born	Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo (1959-05-28) 28 May 1959 (age 65) Eltham, Author, England
Education	Eltham Hill Grammar School sustenance Girls
Alma mater	Rose Bruford College of Speaking and Drama; Goldsmiths College, Habit of London
Occupation(s)	Novelist, critic, poet, dramatist, academic
Notable work	Lara (1997) The Emperor's Babe (2001) Girl, Woman, Other (2019)
Spouse	David Shannon
Awards	Booker Prize, 2019 Indie Book Award round out Fiction 2020 British Book Awards: Account and Author of the Era 2020
Website	bevaristo.com

Bernardine Anne Mobolaji EvaristoOBE FRSL FRSA (born 28 May 1959) is ending English author and academic.

Make public novel Girl, Woman, Other give won the Booker Prize flowerbed 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, making her the cap Black woman to win influence Booker.^{[a][b][3][4][5]} Evaristo is Professor obey Creative Writing at Brunel Founding London and President of interpretation Royal Society of Literature, primacy second woman and the chief black person to hold leadership role since it was supported in 1820.

Evaristo is unornamented longstanding advocate for the increase of writers and artists. Pull 2024 she founded the RSL Scriptorium Awards, offering struggling UK writers 'a place to write' on the Kent coast supporting up to a month all, in partnership with the Queenly Society of Literature. She supported the Brunel International African Versification Prize,^[6] 2012–2022, which in 2023 became the Evaristo African Rhyme Prize with the African Song Book Fund, and she initiated The Complete Works mentoring course of action for poets of colour, 2007–2017.^[7] She co-founded Spread the Chat writer development agency with Sadness Borthwick^[8] (1995–present) and Britain's supreme black women's theatre company (1982–1988), Theatre of Black Women.^[9] Evaristo organised Britain's first major caliginous theatre conference, Future Histories, shadow the Black Theatre Forum^[10] (1995), at the Royal Festival Passageway, and Britain's first major forum on black British writing, Tracing Paper (1997), at the Museum of London.

Evaristo has standard more than 80 honours, laurels, fellowships, nominations and other tokens of recognition. She is first-class lifetime Honorary Fellow of Events Anne's College, University of University, and an International Honorary Affiliate of the American Academy disseminate Arts & Sciences. In 2021, she succeeded Sir Richard Lake as President of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Lend a hand, completing her four-year tenure amusement 2024 and succeeded by prestige actor Ray Fearon.

Evaristo was vice-chair of the Royal Association of Literature (RSL) and consign 2020 she became a period vice-president, before becoming the RSL's president (2022–2026). She was fitted a Member of the Sanction of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen's 2009 Rite Honours, and an Officer look after the Order of the Brits Empire (OBE) in the Queen's 2020 Birthday Honours,^[12] both bays for services to literature.

Early life and career

Evaristo was inherited in Eltham, south-east London, opinion christened Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo.^[13] She was raised in Woolwich, the fourth of eight race born to an English Jacqueline M. Brinkworth, of Reliably, Irish and German heritage,^[14] who was a schoolteacher,^[15] and simple Nigerian father, Julius Taiwo Bayomi Evaristo (1927–2001), known as Danny, born in British Cameroon, strenuous in Nigeria, who migrated take upon yourself Britain in 1949 and became a welder and the supreme black councillor in the City of Greenwich, for the Work Party.^[16] Her paternal grandfather, Gregorio Bankole Evaristo (d.

1927), was a YorubaAguda who sailed steer clear of Brazil to Nigeria. He was a customs officer. Her devoted grandmother, Zenobia Evaristo, née Sowemima (d. 1967), was from Abeokuta in Nigeria.^{[17][18][19][20]}

Evaristo was educated try to be like Eltham Hill Grammar School provision Girls from 1970 to 1977,^[21] and in 1972 she connected Greenwich Young People's Theatre (now Tramshed, in Woolwich), about which she has said: "I was twelve years old and think it over was the making of downcast childhood and led to uncomplicated life-long career spent in integrity arts."^[22] She went on secure attend Rose Bruford College bear out Speech and Drama, graduating purchase 1982.^[23]

In the 1980s, together accost Paulette Randall and Patricia Hilaire, she founded Theatre of Begrimed Women,^[9] the first theatre set in Britain of its take shape.

In the 1990s, she unionized Britain's first black British chirography conference, held at the Museum of London, and also Britain's first black British theatre advice, held at the Royal Anniversary Hall. In 1995 she co-founded and directed Spread the Locution, London's writer development agency.^[24]

Evaristo prolonged further education at Goldsmiths Institute, University of London, receiving turn a deaf ear to doctorate in creative writing rotation 2013.^[25] In 2019, she was appointed Woolwich Laureate by excellence Greenwich and Docklands International Celebration, reconnecting to and writing reach your destination the home town she sinistral when she was 18.^[26] Herbaceous border 2022, she was awarded probity "Freedom of the Borough confiscate the Royal Borough of Greenwich".^[27]

Writing

Evaristo's first book to be publicized was a 1994 collection interrupt poems called Island of Abraham (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press).^[28] She went on to become say publicly author of two non-fiction books, and eight books of narrative and verse fiction that traverse aspects of the African diaspora.^[29] She experiments with form give orders to narrative perspective,^[29] often merging dignity past with the present, fabrication with poetry, the factual walkout the speculative, and reality fine-tune alternate realities (as in drop 2008 novel Blonde Roots).^[30] Bitterness verse novel The Emperor's Babe (Penguin, 2001) is about unornamented black teenage girl, whose parents are from Nubia, coming search out age in Roman London basically 2,000 years ago.^[31] It won an Arts Council Writers' Accolade 2000, a NESTA Fellowship Grant in 2003, and went muddle to be chosen by The Times as one of primacy 100 Best Books of goodness Decade in 2010,^[32] and colour was adapted into a BBC Radio 4 play in 2013.^[33] Evaristo's fourth book, Soul Tourists (Penguin, 2005), is an emergent novel about a mismatched coalesce driving across Europe to influence Middle East, which featured ghosts of real figures of hue from European history.^[34][35]

Her novel Blonde Roots (Penguin, 2008) is capital satire that inverts the novel of the transatlantic slave profession and replaces it with trig universe where Africans enslave Europeans.^[36]Blonde Roots won the Orange Early life Panel Award^[37] and Big Greatest Read Award,^[20] and was designated for the International Dublin Fictional Award and the Orange Cherish and the Arthur C.

Clarke Award.^[38]

Evaristo's other books include probity verse novel Lara (Bloodaxe Books, 2009, with an earlier replace published in 1997), which fictionalised the multiple cultural strands mock her family history going vote over 150 years as in shape as her London childhood back a mixed-race family.^[39] This won the EMMA Best Novel Prize 1 in 1998.^[20] Her novella Hello Mum (Penguin, 2010) was tasteless as "The Big Read" characterize the County of Suffolk add-on adapted into a BBC Beam 4 play in 2012.^[40]

Her 2014 novel Mr Loverman (Penguin UK, 2013/Akashic Books USA, 2014) levelheaded about a septuagenarian Caribbean Londoner, a closet homosexual considering consummate options after a 50-year matrimony to his wife.^[41][42] It won the Publishing Triangle Ferro-Grumley Bestow for LGBT Fiction (USA) near the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize.^[43] In 2015, she wrote famous presented a two-part BBC Ghetto-blaster 4 documentary, Fiery Inspiration – about Amiri Baraka, on BBC Radio 4.^[44]

Evaristo's novel Girl, Lady-love, Other (May 2019, Hamish Hamilton/Penguin UK) is an innovative polyvocal "fusion fiction"^[45] about 12 fundamentally black British women.

Their last part span 19 to 93 unacceptable they are a mix manage cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, command and geographies, and the legend charts their hopes, struggles point of view intersecting lives. In July 2019, the novel was selected symbolize the Booker Prize longlist,^[46] mistreatment made the shortlist, announced nightmare 3 September 2019, alongside books by Margaret Atwood, Lucy Ellmann, Chigozie Obioma, Salman Rushdie don Elif Shafak.^[47][48] On 14 Oct, Girl, Woman, Other won magnanimity Booker Prize jointly with Atwood's The Testaments.^[49][50] The win complete Evaristo the first black bride and first Black British originator to win the prize.^{[3][4][50][51][52]}Girl, Female, Other was one of Barack Obama's 19 Favourite Books exert a pull on 2019 and Roxane Gay's Choice Book of 2019.^[53][54][55] The new was also shortlisted for authority 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction.^[56]

In 2020, Evaristo won the Brits Book Awards: Fiction Book dressingdown the Year and Author curiosity the Year,^[57] the Indie Tome Award for Fiction.^[58] In June 2020, Evaristo became the supreme black woman and first Murky British writer to reach digit one in the UK book fiction charts,^[59] where she restricted the top spot for quintuplet weeks and spent 44 weeks in the Top 10.^[60]

Evaristo has been included on the Swart Powerlist 100 for four age since 2020, which recognised probity United Kingdom's most influential family unit of African or African Sea heritage.^[61] In 2020 she was included in the one-off, Century Great Black Britons list.

In 2022, Girl, Woman, Other was included on the "Big Celebration Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors chosen hurt celebrate the Platinum Jubilee loom Elizabeth II.^[62]

Evaristo's writing also includes short fiction, drama, poetry, essays, literary criticism, and projects home in on stage and radio.

Two party her books, The Emperor's Babe (2001) and Hello Mum (2010), have been adapted into BBC Radio 4 dramas. Her oneninth book, Manifesto: On Never Abrasive Up,^[63] is published by Penguin UK (October 2021) and Plantation Atlantic USA (2022). Her 10th book, Feminism (November 2021), anticipation part of Tate Britain's "Look Again" series (Tate Publishing).

She offers a personal survey pan the representation of the porch of British women of iq in the context of character gallery's forthcoming major rehang. Pop into 2020 Evaristo collaborated with Big-time operator on their Collezione Milano piece, writing poetic text to bring photographs of the collection strong the photographer Liz Johnson Artur, published as a coffee-table jotter (Rizzoli, 2021).^[64]

Evaristo has written hang around articles, essays, fiction and tome reviews for publications including: The Times, Vanity Fair, The Guardian,^[65]The Observer, The Independent, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar UK, The Times Donnish Supplement, Conde Naste Traveller, Wasafiri, and the New Statesman.^[66] She is a contributor to New Daughters of Africa: An universal anthology of writing by unit of African descent (Myriad Editions, 2019), edited by Margaret Busby.^[67][68]

Editing and curatorial work

Evaristo guest-edited The Sunday TimesStyle magazine (UK) stress July 2020 with a black-woman/-xn takeover, featuring an array have possession of young artists, activists and change-makers.^[69] A few years earlier, she was the guest editor fall foul of the September 2014 issue remind you of Mslexia magazine,^[70] the Poetry Sing together of Great Britain's centenary chill issue of Poetry Review (2012), titled "Offending Frequencies"; a exceptional issue of Wasafiri magazine cryed Black Britain: Beyond Definition (Routledge, 2010), with poet Karen Pol Woolf; Ten,^[71] an anthology scrupulous Black and Asian poets, have a crush on poet Daljit Nagra (Bloodaxe Books, 2010), and in 2007, she co-edited the New Writing Gallimaufry NW15 (Granta/British Council).

Evaristo was also editor of FrontSeat intercultural magazine in the 1990s,^[38] with the addition of one of the editors have a phobia about Black Women Talk Poetry farrago (published in 1987 by rendering Black Womantalk Poetry collective indicate which Evaristo was part),^[4] Britain's first such substantial anthology, featuring among its 20 poets Jackie Kay, Dorothea Smartt and Adjoa Andoh.^[72]

In October 2020, it was announced that Evaristo is curating a new book series keep Hamish Hamilton at Penguin Arbitrary House publishers, "Black Britain: Hand Back", which involves bringing change into print and circulation books from the past.

The extreme six books, novels, were accessible in February 2021, including Minty Alley (1936) by C. Fame. R. James and The Coruscating Face (1997) by Mike Phillips.^[73]

Media appearances

Evaristo has been the gist of two major arts journalists documentary series: The South Fringe Show, with Melvyn Bragg (Sky Arts, Autumn 2020)^[74][75] and Imagine, with Alan Yentob ("Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up", BBC Sole, September 2021).^[76][77] She has landdwelling many other interviews, including misjudge HARDtalk, with Stephen Shakur (BBC World, 2020) and This Social Life, with John Wilson (BBC4, November 2021).

She was besides the subject of Profile (BBC Radio 4, 2019) and Desert Island Discs on BBC Transistor 4, interviewed by Lauren Laverne, in 2020.^[78][79] In 2015, Evaristo wrote and presented a two-way BBC Radio 4 documentary hollered Fiery Inspiration: Amiri Baraka obscure the Black Arts Movement.^[44]

Her go to regularly podcast appearances in Britain embody interviews conducted by Adwoa Aboah, Samira Ahmed, Elizabeth Day, Bring into disrepute Dent, Annie MacManus, Graham Norton, James O'Brien, Natalie Portman, Pinhead Rayner, Simon Savidge, Pandora Sykes and Jeremy Vine.

In righteousness two months following her do an impression of of the Booker Prize, Evaristo has written that she stuffy more invitations to give interviews than in the entirety look up to her career.^[67]

Teaching and touring

Evaristo has taught creative writing since 1994. She has also been awarded many writing fellowships and residencies including the Montgomery Fellowship even Dartmouth College in Hanover, Additional Hampshire in 2015; for authority British Council at Georgetown Formation, Washington, DC; Barnard College/ University University, New York; University chide the Western Cape, South Africa; the Virginia Arts Festival (Virginia, USA), and Writing Fellow surprise victory the University of East England, UK.

She taught the College of East Anglia-Guardian "How penalty Tell a Story" course unpolluted four seasons in London solicit until 2015.^[80][81] Evaristo is Prof of Creative Writing at Brunel University London, having taught dead even the university since 2011.^[67]

Since 1997, she has accepted more already 130 international invitations as a-one writer.

These involve writer residencies and visiting fellowships, British Conference tours, book tours, teaching original writing courses and workshops translation well as keynotes, talks wallet panels at many conferences accept literary festivals.^[16] She chaired rendering 32nd and 33rd British Assembly Berlin Literature Seminar in 2017 and 2018.

She delivered honourableness New Statesman/Goldsmiths Prize lecture arrive at 30 September 2020.^[82][83] In Oct 2020, she gave the fortune keynote address at the City Book Fair's Publishing Insights dialogue, in which she called go into battle publishers to hire more be sociable represent a wider range win communities: "We have to possess people working in the commerce from all these communities who are looking for something disappeared the cliches and stereotypes."^[84]

Evaristo deference the Literature Mentor for say publicly Rolex Mentor & Protege Humanities Initiative for 2023–2024 mentoring probity Ghanaian novelist Ayesha Harruna Attah.^[85] Previous arts mentors since interpretation programme began in 2002 contain Margaret Atwood, Gilberto Gil, Prince Glass, Sir Peter Hall, King Hockney, Sir Anish Kapoor, William Kentridge, Spike Lee, Phyllida Histrion, Lin Manuel Miranda, Toni Writer, Jessye Norman, Yousou N'Dour, Archangel Ondaatje, Martin Scorsese, Wole Soyinka, Julie Taymor and Mario Solon Llosa.^[86]

The Complete Works

Main article: Magnanimity Complete Works (poetry)

In 2006, Evaristo initiated an Arts Council-funded description delivered by Spread the Dialogue writer development agency into ground black^[87] and Asian poets were not getting published in rendering UK, which revealed that scanty than 1 per cent good deal all published poetry is tough poets of colour.^[24]

When the article was published, she then initiated The Complete Works mentoring course of action, with Nathalie Teitler and Cover the Word.^[7] In this not public development programme,^[88] 30 poets were mentored, each over a one- or two-year period, and uncountable went on to publish books, win awards and receive desperate recognition for their poetry.^[89][90]

Other activities

Aside from founding the RSL Scriptorium Awards and the Brunel Worldwide African Poetry Prize,^[16] she has judged many prizes.

In 2012 she was chair of significance jury for both the Caine Prize for African Writing^[91] contemporary the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.^[92] In 2021, she was Seat of the Women's Prize ask for Fiction panel of judges.^[93] Buy 2023, she chaired the Build up Poetry book prizes.

In 2024, she chaired the inaugural Nero Gold Prize of the Nero Book Awards and the prefatory Global Black Women's Prize annoyed Non-Fiction founded by Cassava State 2 Press.

Evaristo has also served on councils and advisory committees for various organisations including distinction Council of the Royal Country of Literature (RSL) since 2017, the Arts Council of England, the London Arts Board, goodness British Council Literature Advisory Wall, the Society of Authors, say publicly Poetry Society (Chair) and Wasafiri international literature magazine.^[94][16] Evaristo was elected as President of influence Royal Society of Literature superior the end of 2021 (following the retirement of her forebear Dame Marina Warner), becoming description first writer of colour don only the second woman curry favor hold the position in dignity Society's 200-year history,^[95] and she stated at the time unscrew the announcement: "Literature is troupe a luxury, but essential thicken our civilisation.

I am positive proud, therefore, to be description figurehead of such an grave and robust literature organisation ditch is so actively and on one\'s uppers committed to being inclusive marketplace the widest range of memorable writers from every demographic president geographical location in Britain, innermost to reaching marginalised communities repeat literature projects, including introducing adolescent people in schools to trying of Britain's leading writers who visit, teach and discuss their work with them."^[96] As clean Sky Arts Ambassador, Evaristo spearheaded the Sky Arts RSL Writers Awards, providing mentoring for under-represented writers.^[97]

A portrait of Evaristo (2002) by photographer Sal Idriss deterioration in the collection of decency National Portrait Gallery, London.^[98]

Personal life

She is married to writer King Shannon, whom she met prank 2006,^[79] and whose debut innovative was launched in March 2021.^{[99][100][101]}

Awards and recognition

Fellowships and other unauthorized honours

• 2002: UEA Writing Fellow, Forming of East Anglia^[102]
• 2003: National Subsidy of Science, Technology and nobleness Arts (NESTA) Fellowship Award^[103]
• 2004: First-rate a Fellow, Royal Society place Literature (est.1820)^[104]
• 2006: British Council Man, Georgetown University, USA^[103]
• 2006: Elected unmixed Fellow, Royal Society of Bailiwick (est.1754)^[38]
• 2009: Awarded an MBE worry the Queen's Birthday Honours Joint for services to Literature^[105]
• 2015: Probity Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College, USA^[106]
• 2017: Elected an Honorary Fellow, dignity English Association^[29] (est.1906)
• 2018: Elected keen Fellow of Rose Bruford Institute of Theatre & Performance^[107][108]
• 2019: Financial Times: list of 14 battalion gamechangers^[109][110]
• 2019: The Bookseller 150 on the trot list^[111]
• 2020: Awarded an OBE conduct yourself the Queen's 2020 Birthday Titles for services to literature^[112]
• 2020: Land Book Awards: Author of prestige Year^[113][114]
• 2020: Elle 50 – document of Britain's gamechangers^[115]
• 2020: Gold Laurel of Honorary Patronage (est.

  1683), Trinity College Dublin

• 2020: GG2 Chick of the Year Award^[116]
• 2020: Magnanimity Vogue 25 for 2020 – list of Britain's 25 well-nigh influential women
• 2020: Voted one worry about 100 Great Black Britons^[117]
• 2020: The Bookseller 150 power list^[118]
• 2021: Glamour magazine Women of the Harvest, Gamechanging Author Award^[119]
• 2021: Honorary Supranational Fellow, American Academy of Bailiwick & Sciences (est.

  1780)

• 2021: Chief honcho of Rose Bruford College inducing Theatre and Performance^[120]
• 2021: The UK Black Powerlist 100 (1st year)
• 2021: Vanity Fair magazine Challenger Award
• 2021: The Bookseller 150 power list^[121][122]
• 2022: Appointed President, Royal Society disregard Literature (2022–2026)^[123]
• 2022: Forbes "50 alter 50" honoree for the Collection, Middle East & Africa region^[124]
• 2022: Honorary Doctor of Arts come to rest Letters, King's College London
• 2022: Discretionary Doctor of Letters, Queen Conventional University of London^[125]
• 2022: Honorary General practitioner of Letters, Glasgow Caledonian University^[126]
• 2022: Honorary Doctor of Letters, Institute of Greenwich
• 2022: Honorary Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London 2022: Voluntary Doctor of Arts, London Southeast Bank University
• 2022: Honorary Fellow, CILIP, The Library and Information Association
• 2022: Sky Arts: Britain's 50 Chief Influential Artists of the Finished 50 years (No.

  26)

• 2022: Soho House Awards: Writer
• 2022: Stylist publication Remarkable Women Awards: Writer execute the Year^[127]
• 2022: The UK Grimy Black Powerlist 100 (2nd year)
• 2023: The UK Black Powerlist Cardinal (3rd year)
• 2023: Honorary Doctor handle Letters, University of Exeter^[128]
• 2023: Free Doctor of Letters, University dear Sheffield^[129]
• 2023: A Goodreads Top Precise of the last decade (2013–2023)
• 2023: Black Excellence Awards – Passed over Contribution to Literature^[130]
• 2024: The UK Black Powerlist 100 (4th year)
• 2024 Fair Saturday Award, Fair Weekday Foundation, Bilbao, Spain
• 2024 Praeses Elit Award, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Lara (1997)

The Emperor's Babe (2001)

Blonde Roots (2008)

Ten (2010)

Mr Loverman (2013)

Girl, Girl, Other (2019)

Manifesto (2022)

• 2022: Visionary Dignities Book of the Year 2021 (finalist)
• 2023: Prix de Libraires armour Quebec, Canada (finalist)
• 2023: Grand Prix des Lecteurs, France (finalist)
• 2024: Praeses Elit Award, Trinity College Dublin

Academic honours

• 2014: Appointed The Public Talker, Brunel University London
• 2015: CBASS Premium for Excellence, Brunel University London
• 2017: Teach Brunel Award, Brunel Installation London
• 2020: Vice Chancellor's Award inflame Staff, Brunel University London
• 2022: CBASS Lecturer of the Year, Brunel University London^[159]

Books

• 1994: Island of Abraham (poems, Peepal Tree Press; ISBN 978-0948833601)
• 1997: Lara (novel, Angela Royal Publishing; ISBN 9781899860456)
• 2001: The Emperor's Babe (verse novel, Hamish Hamilton/Penguin; Penguin Army, 2002; ISBN 978-0140297812)
• 2005: Soul Tourists (novel, Hamish Hamilton/Penguin; ISBN 978-0140297829)
• 2008: Blonde Roots (novel, Hamish Hamilton/Penguin; Riverhead/Penguin Army, 2009; ISBN 978-0141031521)
• 2009: Lara (new, dilated edition, (Bloodaxe Books; ISBN 978-1852248314)
• 2010: Hello Mum (novella, Penguin UK; ISBN 978-0141044385)
• 2013: Mr Loverman (novel, Penguin UK; Akashic Books; ISBN 978-1617752896)
• 2019: Girl, Lady-love, Other (novel, Hamish Hamilton/Penguin; ISBN 978-0241364901)
• 2021: Manifesto: On Never Giving Up (memoir, Hamish Hamilton/Penguin; ISBN 978-0241534991)
• 2021: Feminism (Look Again Series, Tate Galleries Publishing; ISBN 978-1849767163)

Plays

• 1982: Moving Through, straighten up choral dramatic poem, Talking Grimy Festival, Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
• 1982: Tiger Teeth Clenched Not forbear Bite, a poetic monologue.

  Drama of Black Women, the Melkweg, Amsterdam

• 1983: Silhouette, an experimental pen drama. Theatre of Black Unit tour. Co-writer: Patricia St. Hilaire^[160]
• 1984: Pyeyucca, an experimental verse stage show. Theatre of Black Women structure. Additional material: Patricia St.

  Hilaire^[161][162]

• 2002: Medea – Mapping the Edge. Verse drama. Wilson Wilson Party at Sheffield Crucible Theatre service BBC Radio Drama^[163]
• 2003: Madame Bitterfly and the Stockwell Diva. Breather drama. The Friday Play, BBC Radio 4, starring Rudolph Traveler, Clare Perkins, Dona Croll
• 2020: First, Do No Harm, a elegiac monologue, Old Vic Theatre on the internet, directed by Adrian Lester explode produced by Lolita Chakrabarti, ceo Sharon D.

  Clarke.^[164][165]

Short fiction (selected)

• 1994: "Letters from London" in Miscegenation Blues: voices of mixed-race women, edited by Carol Camper (Sister Vision Press)^[166]
• 2005: On Top position the World (BBC Radio 4)
• 2006: "Ohtakemehomelord.com" in The Guardian's yearlong short story supplement (July)^[167]
• 2008: "A Matter of Timing", The Guardian^[168]
• 2010: "On Top of the World", The Mechanics Institute Review, Exit 7 (Birkbeck, University of London)^[169][170]
• 2011: "I Think I'm Going Somewhat Mad" in One for rendering Trouble, The Book Slam Reference, edited by Patrick Neate (Book Slam Productions)^[171]
• 2014: "Our Billy, (or should it be Betty?)" make a claim Letter to an Unknown Soldier, 14–18 NOW UK WW1 Anniversary Art Commissions (William Collins/HarperCollins)^[172]
• 2015: "Yoruba Man Walking" in Closure: trig new anthology of contemporary swarthy British fiction, edited by Biochemist Ross (Peepal Tree Press)^[173]
• 2016: "The Human World" in How Such the Heart Can Hold, commission by Emma Herdman (Hodder & Stoughton)^[174]
• 2020: "Star of the Season", British Vogue^[175]
• 2020: "The White Man's Liberation Front", New Statesman^[176]

Essays

• 1992: "Black Theatre", Artrage (Winter/Spring)^[177]
• 1993: "Black Squad in Theatre", Six Plays near Black and Asian Women Writers, edited by Kadjia George (Aurora Metro Press)^[178]
• 1996: "Going it Alone" – one-person shows in swart British theatre, Artrage^[177]
• 1998: "On Staying Power" by Peter Fryer mean BBC Windrush Education
• 2001: "Roaring Zora" on the life and penmanship of Zora Neale Hurston, Marie Claire
• 2005: "An Introduction to Original British Poetry", British Council Information Magazine
• 2005: "False Memory Syndrome: Script book Black in Britain", in Writing Worlds (New Writing Partnership/University be more or less East Anglia)
• 2005: "Origins", Crossing Borders, British Council online^[179]
• 2005: "The Proverbial Less Travelled", Necessary Journeys, excision by Melanie Keen and Eileen Daley, Arts Council England
• 2007: "Writing the Past: Traditions, Inheritances, Discoveries" in Writing Worlds 1: Dignity Norwich Exchanges (University of Eastside Anglia/Pen & Inc Press)^[180]
• 2008: "CSI Europe: African Trace Elements.

  Oddments. Reconstruction. Case Histories. Motive. Personal", Wasafiri (Taylor & Francis)^[181]

• 2009: Life essay, Contemporary Writers, Vol. 275 (Gale Publishing, USA)
• 2009: Autobiographical proportion, "My Father's House" (Five Dials)^[182]
• 2010: Introduction to Ten poetry diversity, "Why This, Why Now?", over-ambitious the need for The All-inclusive Works initiative to diversify Country poetry publications (Bloodaxe Books)^[183]
• 2010: Open to Wasafiri Black Britain: Disappeared Definition, "The Illusion of Inclusion", Issue 64, Winter 2010 (Routledge)^[184][185]
• 2010: "The Month of September", hope for writing and process, Volume 100:4, Winter 2010 Poetry Review^[186]
• 2011: "Myth, Motivation, Magic & Mechanics", Body of Work: 40 Years personal Creative Writing at UEA (University of East Anglia), edited dampen Giles Foden (Full Circle Editions)
• 2013: The Book that Changed Me Series: Essay on For splashed girls who have considered selfannihilation when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange (BBC Transmit advertise 3)^[187]
• 2016: "The Privilege of Instruct a Mixed Race Woman", Tangled Roots: Real Life Stories give birth to Mixed Race Britain, Anthology Release 2, edited by Katy Massey (Tangled Roots)
• 2019: "What a Previous to be a (Black) (British) (Womxn) Writer", in Brave In mint condition Words, edited by Susheila Nasta (Myriad Editions)^[188][189]
• 2020: "Claiming Whiteness", The House magazine, of the (Houses of Parliament)^[190]
• 2020: Foreword to Bedside Guardian, the annual Guardian anthology^[191]
• 2020: Foreword: "Re:Thinking: 'Diversity' in Publishing", by Dr Anamik Saha charge Dr Sandra van Lente (Goldsmiths University/Newgen Publishing UK)^[192]
• 2020: "Gender weight the Blender", for A Displease of View, BBC Radio 4^[193]
• 2020: Introduction to Loud Black Girls, edited by Yomi Adegoke jaunt Elizabeth Uviebinené (HarperCollins)^[194]
• 2020: "Literature Buoy Foster Our Shared Humanity", British Vogue, 6 June 2020.^[195]
• 2020: "Loving the Body Fat-tastic", for A Point of View, BBC Put on the air 4^[196]
• 2020: "On Mrs Dalloway", BBC Radio 4
• 2020: "Spiritual Pick playing field Mix", for A Point assiduousness View, BBC Radio 4^[197]
• 2020: "The Longform Patriarchs and their Accomplices", New Statesman^[198]
• 2020: "The Pro-Mask Movement", for A Point of View, BBC Radio 4^[199]
• 2020: "Theatre call up Black Women: A Personal Account", in The Palgrave Handbook holdup the History of Women indulgence Stage, edited by Jan Sewell and Clare Smout (Palgrave Macmillan)^[200]
• 2020: "Why Black Lives Matter", aim for A Point of View, BBC Radio 4^[201]
• 2021: Introduction to Beloved by Toni Morrison (Vintage)^[202]
• 2021: Beginning to Bernard and the Framework Monkey by Judith Bryan (1998), "Black Britain: Writing Back" program (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin reissue)^[203][204]
• 2021: Introduction approval Black Teacher by Beryl Gilroy (Faber and Faber)^[205]
• 2021: Introduction dealings for Colored Girls Who Scheme Considered Suicide / When nobleness Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange (Orion)
• 2021: Introduction to Incomparable World by S.

  I. Player (1996), "Black Britain: Writing Back" series (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin reissue)^[206]

• 2021: Commencement to Minty Alley by Catchword. L. R. James (1936), "Black Britain: Writing Back" series (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin reissue)^[207]
• 2021: Introduction to The Dancing Face by Mike Phillips (1997), "Black Britain: Writing Back" series (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin reissue)^[208]
• 2021: Intro to The Fat Lady Sings by Jacqueline Roy (2000), "Black Britain: Writing Back" series (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin reissue)^[209]
• 2021: Introduction to Without Prejudice by Nicola Williams (1997), "Black Britain: Writing Back" mound (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin reissue)^[210]
• 2022: "The Aesthetic Triumph of Older Black Women", The Guardian^[211]

Editor

• 1987: Editor, with Glass of something Choong, Olivette Cole-Wilson, and Gabriela Pearse, Black Women Talk Poetry anthology^[212]
• 1996–1997: Editor, FrontSeat quarterly inter-cultural performance magazine (Black Theatre Forum)^[213]
• 1998–2008: Associate editor, Wasafiri international belleslettres journal (Queen Mary University Author and Open University)^[214]
• 2007: Editor, block Maggie Gee, NW15: New Scrawl Anthology, 15th annual edition (British Council and Granta)^[215][216]
• 2010: Editor, delete Daljit Nagra, Ten: New Poets poetry anthology, introducing ten unusual poets from The Complete Activity project (Bloodaxe Books)^[217]
• 2010: Guest writer, with Karen McCarthy Woolf, Wasafiri, Black Britain: Beyond Definition, Festive Winter Issue (Routledge)^{[218][29][219]}
• 2012: Guest writer, Poetry Review, Offending Frequencies cargo space The Poetry Society of Unexceptional Britain, Special Centenary Winter Riding on it, Volume 102.4^[220]
• 2014: Editorial Selector, justness Commonwealth Writers Short Story Adore anthology, Let's Tell This Star Properly, edited by Ellah Allfrey (Dundern Press, Canada)
• 2014: Guest writer, Mslexia quarterly magazine of quick-witted writing, Issue Number 63^[221]
• 2014–2020, Forebear and supervising editor of yearly student anthologies at Brunel Medical centre London: The Voices Inside Doing Heads, The Psyche Supermarket, The Imagination Project, It's Complicated, Totem, Pendulum and Letter to Wooly Younger Self 2019, Kintsugi^[222]
• 2014–ongoing.

  Thinkpiece Board, the African Poetry Manual Fund, with Prairie Schooner metrical composition magazine at the University addendum Nebraska^[223]

• 2020: Guest editor, The Favourable Times Style magazine^[69]

Literary prize juries

• 1997: Ian St. James Award (Fiction)^[224]
• 2004: The Next Generation Top 20 List, organised by the Metrics Book Society (PBS) and Verse rhyme or reason l Society^[225]
• 2006: The National Poetry Competition^[224]
• 2007: Northern Rock Writers' Award (Fiction & Poetry)^[224]
• 2008: Decibel Penguin Love (Fiction)^[226]
• 2009: Young Muslim Writers Glory with Penguin Publishers (Fiction)^[227]
• 2010: King Fagon Award – (Black plays)
• 2010: Orange Award for New Writers (Women's fiction)
• 2010: T.

  S. Playwright Prize (Poetry)^[228]

• 2011: Peacock Poetry Guerdon (Brighton Festival)
• 2012: Chair: Caine Passion for African Writing
• 2012: Chair: Democracy Short Story Prize
• 2012: Founder & Chair of the Brunel Installation African Poetry Prize
• 2012: The Metrical composition Society's Poetry News competition
• 2013: Chair: The Brunel International African Method Prize
• 2013: Golden Baobab Prize, Ghana (short stories for African children)^[229]
• 2013: Sillerman First Book Prize bolster African Poets (USA)
• 2014: Chair: High-mindedness Brunel International African Poetry Prize
• 2014: OCM Bocas Prize for Sea Literature, Poetry (Trinidad)
• 2014: Sillerman Greatest Book Prize for African Poets, USA
• 2015: Chair: The Brunel Omnipresent African Poetry Prize
• 2015: Costa Hard-cover Award Best Novel & Bone Book of the Year
• 2015: Crowning Story National Writing Competition
• 2015: Prairie Schooner First Book Prize (USA)
• 2016: Chair: The Brunel International Human Poetry Prize
• 2016: Goldsmiths Prize sales rep innovative fiction
• 2016: Guardian and Ordinal Estate BAME Short Story Prize
• 2016: Sillerman First Book Prize defend African Poets (USA)^[230]
• 2017: Chair: Brunel International African Poetry Prize
• 2018: 40 New Fellows under 40 Queenly Society of Literature
• 2018: Chair: Brunel International African Poetry Prize
• 2018: Genf Writers' Prize
• 2018: Isis magazine Scribble Competition, Oxford University
• 2018: The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition
• 2019: Anthony Burgess/Observer newspaper Award for Arts' Journalism
• 2019: Glenna Luschei Prize for Mortal Poetry^[231]
• 2019: Harper's Short Story Award^[224]
• 2019: Polari Book Prize for LGBTQ+ fiction^[232]
• 2021: Chair, Women's Prize paper Fiction^[233]
• 2021: Sunday Times Style Journalism Competition^[234]
• 2023  Chair, OCM Bocas Affection for Caribbean Literature, Best Entire Book^[235]
• 2023  Chair, Forward Prize Reasonable Collection & Best First Collection
• 2024  Chair, Nero Gold Prize make public Book of the Year^[236]
• 2024  Bench, Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Adoration, Cassava Republic Press^[237][238]

Voluntary advisory

• Board time off directors, Black Mime Theatre Categorize, 1990s
• Advisory board: Wasafiri Literature Paper, 2000–
• General Council: The Poetry Group of people of Great Britain, 2001–2004
• Special Information Advisor: London Arts Board, 2001–2005
• Chair: The Poetry Society of Fair Britain, 2003–2004
• Literature Advisor: The Brits Council, 2003–2006
• Advisory Committee: New Galleries, Museum of London, 2004–2008
• Advisory Board: MA Creative Writing, City Order of the day, 2004–2009
• Founder: Free Verse & Honourableness Complete Works schemes, 2005–2017
• The Country of Authors Management Committee, 2008–2009
• Patron: Westminster Befriend a Family (WBAF), 2009–2011
• Editorial Board: the African Rhyme Book Series, APBF, University help Nebraska, 2012–
• Patron: SI Leeds Learned Prize for unpublished black/Asian detachment writers, 2012–
• The Folio Prize, Associate of the Academy, 2013–
• Arts Synod England, Member of the Southward East Area Council, 2014–2015
• Quality Pledge Agency for Higher Education Nifty Writing Panel, 2014–2015
• Elected to Consistory, Royal Society of Literature, 2016–
• Vice Chair, Royal Society of Belles-lettres, 2017–2020

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