BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography – Kadija Sesay

 

Books and journals edited

Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers (Aurora Metro, UK, 1993)

Humanitas (George Bell Institute) Book review editor (since 1998)

Calabash – for writers of African and Asian descent (founder; managing editor and trained guest editors for themed issues, started 1996)

IC3, The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (co-ed Courttia Newland) (Hamish Hamilton, UK, 2000)

Write Black, Write British; From Post Colonial to Black British Literature (Hansib, UK, 2005)

Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa; (Flipped Eye, UK, 2005)

Dreams, Miracles and Jazz : New Adventures in African Fiction: (co-ed. Helon Habila), (Picador Africa, February, Johannesburg 2008)

RED: An Anthology of Contemporary Black British Poetry : edited by Kwame Dawes, Inscribe Series Editor, Kadija Sesay (Peepal Tree Press, UK, 2010)

Guest Editor: QBR – Black Review of Books (New York, 2001) ;

Humanitas : The Journal of the George Bell Institute Vol 2: Number 1 (includes keynote speech by Rita Dove at the Poetry International Festival at Southbank Centre, UK)
Own work published

Poetry

‘Six Minutes Writing’ in Bum Rush the Page, eds. Medina and Rivera (Crown Publishing, USA, 2001)

‘Moon Over Water’ ; ‘Chasing Thoughts’ in Velocity; Apples and Snakes Anniversary Anthology Ed. Prausnitz (Black Spring Press, UK, 2003)

‘’No Fear of Falling’, ‘Cubanos Muchachos’, ‘Reality of Being Dazed’, ‘At Green Gulch’ and ‘Coyote Ridge Trail’, in ’BmA:Sonia Sanchez Journal, Special Issue on Black Travel, eds, Arana and Ramey (USA, 2004)

‘Male Bonding’ in The Fire People: A Collection of Contemporary Black British Poets, ed. Lemn Sissay (Canongate, UK,1999)

‘Moon over Water’ in One River, Many Creeks: Poems from All Around the World ed. Valerie Bloom (Macmillan, 2003);

‘Queen of Ol’ Wharf’ in Dance The Guns to Silence, flipped eye publishing , UK (November, 2005)

‘Pink Shoes’ in Northern Lights, (Leeds What’s On Guide, 2006)

‘Grandmothers I’; ‘Grandmother II’, in Drum Voices Revue (2007)

‘Out of Reach’; ‘Shoots’ in St. Petersburg Review, NY (2008).

‘Stilled Tragedy’ in Sixty Poems for Haiti, ed. Maggie Harris (Cane Arrow Press, 2010)

 

Short Fiction

‘Cook for Talk’ in Burning Words Flaming Images: Poetry and Short Stories by Writers of African Descent (SAKS Publications, UK 1996)

‘A Slice of Quiet’ in Playing Sidney Poitier ed. Catherine Johnson (SAKS Publications, UK 2008)

‘Price of Maybe’ in Afrobeat: New Black British Fiction, ed. Patsy Antoine (Pulp Fiction, UK, 1999);

Various stories broadcast on BBC World Service – English programmes (including ‘A Slice of Quiet’ and  ‘Cook for Talk’)(2000-2002);

‘Men Like Palm Oil’ in Strictly Casual: Fiction by women on Love, ed. Amy Prior, (Serpent’s Tail, 2003);

X Magazine (Flipped Eye, 2004);

‘Love Long Distance’ in Dreams, Miracles and Jazz : New Adventures in African Fiction: (Picador Africa, Johannesburg, 2008);

‘A Village by Any Other Name’ in London/33 East and West (Glasshouse Books, UK, 2010)

Essays and Encyclopedia Entries:

Encyclopedia on Censorship, ed. Derek Jones (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2002)

(Entries on Chinua Achebe and Sierra Leone poets and playwrights)

A Companion to Black British Culture, ed. Donnell (Routledge, 2001)

Adviser and contributor. Entries on ‘Newspapers and Magazines’; ‘Publishing’ and several entries on individual writers, multi media and performance artists

Adviser and contributor; BmA Sonia Sanchez Journal – Sea Change, Special Issue, (2004)

Black British Writing, ed. Ramey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)

‘Bring on the Blood’  essay in  (Agenda -Special Issue, 2005),

‘Does anyone miss Heinemann African Writers Series?’ essay in Journal of African Literature (2006),

The Oxford Companion to Black British Publishing ed. Dabydeen (Entries on Black Publishers in Britain) (OUP 2007);

‘Contemporary Black British Writers’ for the Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Arana. (Entries on Black Publishers in Britain and author, Joanna Traynor, (2009)

Foreword: Guise Williams, Khan, Lin (eds.) Healing Strategies for Women at War: Seven Black Women Poets, Crocus Books, Manchester (1999);

Foreword for Crossing Places, a book of collected papers published by Cambridge Scholars Press 2007),

Introduction for The Other Half of History, a collection of Francophone African women’s poetry (trans. Georgina Collins), (Heaventree Press, 2007)

 

Poetry Collections

Irki  (Peepal Tree Press, 2013)