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WoW hosts a celebration of writers published in anthologies that, in some way, respond to the world’s most powerful tangerine in a toupee. Join us for a refreshing cup of covfefe and help us MAKE FICTION GREAT AGAIN. What are we saying, that’s clearly fake new, fiction’s always been great, but the truth is often stranger.
Scottish 404 Ink’s Nasty Women has been an absolute triumph – tweeted by Margaret Atwood, the anthology has received international acclaim. Sim Bajwa will read from this deliciously nasty collection of work about what it actually means to be a woman today.
Reading from Saqi Book’s Don’t Panic I’m Islaminc is Bidisha, British writer, film-maker and presenter for the BBC TV and radio, Channel 4 news and Sky News and is a trustee of the Booker Prize Foundation. Featuring cartoons, graffiti, photography, colouring in pages and more this subversive anthology is an explosion of expression, creativity and colour.
Comma Press’s Banthology brings together specially commission stories from seven of Trumps “banned nations”. Experience a reading by Zaher Omareen, we’ll explore the emotional and personal impacts of all restrictions on movement.
Sim Bajwa is a writer based in the West Midlands. She graduated from Edinburgh Napier University with an MA in Creative Writing in 2016. Her fiction and non-fiction has been published in Helios Quarterly, The Dangerous Women Project, 404 Ink's Nasty Women, Fiction & Feeling's Becoming Dangerous anthology, and Shoreline of Infinity. She is currently working on her first fantasy novel.
Bidisha is a British writer, film-maker and presenter for the BBC TV and radio, Channel 4 news and Sky News and is a trustee of the Booker Prize Foundation. She specialises in international human rights, social justice, gender and the arts and offers political analysis and cultural diplomacy tying these interests together. She also does outreach work in UK prisons, refugee charities and detention centres. Her most recent book, her fifth, is Asylum and Exile: Hidden Voices of London.
Zaher Omareen is a Syrian writer and researcher based in London. He has worked on independent cultural initiatives in Syria and Europe, and his short stories have appeared in Words Without Borders and he recently co-edited and contributed to Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline.
