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 ...
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...
Journal: Third Edition
Patrice Lawrence, author of the shortlisted Costa Book Award, Orange Boy, attended Almasi League’s last session of 2016, to give a talk about her writing journey to publication.
She discussed how much of her life experiences had been used to ...
Journal: Second Edition
We started with the Zadie Smith essay. As the class seemed unsure about the points being made, I took about 15 minutes to explain Smith’s ideas about a novelist’s quest for perfection, ideas of authenticity and the general process of novel ...
Journal: First Edition
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