Meet Our Writers
Class of 2016/17: From left to right standing are Salina Mwaruri, Nina Duttaroy, Emmanuella Dekonor and seated are Luan Goldie, Sulaxana Hippisley, Sian Davila and Courttia Newland.
Courttia Newland: Almasi League Writer In Residence
Courttia Newland is the author of seven works of fiction including his debut, The Scholar. His latest novel, The Gospel According to Cane, was published in 2013 and has been optioned by Cowboy Films. He was nominated for the Impac Dublin Literary ...
Publicity Profile
What it means to take part in an Almasi League creative writing workshop
1. How did you get interested in reading books?
I have been an avid reader from a young age. Reading is a way for me to relax, it is nourishing to escape into a ...
Journal: Ninth Edition
A brilliant class visit from our editors and publishers this month, Richard Beswick (Little, Brown) Sharmaine Lovegrove (Dialogue Books) and Kit Caless (Influx), who were all absolutely fantastic. The three spent a full two hours answering ...
Journal: Eighth Edition
This month we focused on David Dabydeen’s essay, ‘On Not Being Milton, Nigger talk,’ with its specific take on language and the use of colloquial patois in literature by writers of colour. It was a great essay to read after last month's ...
Journal: Seventh Edition
We had a class visit from editor and publisher Ellah Alfrey this month, which was informative and inspiring as her first visit to the Almasi League. In an informal, Q&A type setting which involved all of the group, Ellah spoke for over an hour ...
Journal: Sixth Edition
This month, we had a great class visit from Julia Kingsford, the independent agent who represents Almasi League supporter Nikesh Shukla, amongst other talents. She took the class through her beginnings, as a part of the sales and marketing team at ...
Almasi micro-fiction award winner
Congratulations to Tabitha Potts, winner of the Almasi micro-fiction award for her story Beneath The Skin.
The competition coincided with our recently held creative writing workshops, which was run to encourage East London residents, to take part ...
Journal: Fifth Edition
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London Writers Network - Meet The Agents Event 27 March 2017
Whilst Courttia currently facilitates a writing residency in Trinidad, this month’s postponed mentoring session, presented a perfectly timed opportunity to attend ...
Journal: Fourth Edition
In this workshop we took closer looks at two writers' work, in a general sense. We discussed where they are going with their stories, which are both in vastly different places as one is the beginning of a new short story, and the other is a comple...
