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Kadija Sesay is an award winning literary activist and cultural nomad. She’s the publisher of SABLE LitMag, and has edited numerous anthologies of writers of African and Asian descent. She’s published a poetry collection Irki (Peepal Tree Press, 2013). Her forthcoming collection is The Modern Pan Africanist’s Journey.
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Kadija George is the founder/publisher of SABLE LitMag, and editor of several anthologies of work by writers of African and Asian descent. She is the co-director of Inscribe, a professional development programme for writers of African and Asian descent based at Peepal Tree and is series editor for their Inscribe imprint. She’s also project managed various literary events. Her first poetry collection Irki (Peepal Tree, 2013) will be followed by The Modern PanAfricanist’s Journey for which she was awarded a research and development Grants from Arts Council England.
She is a Fellow of the Kennedy Arts Centre for Performance Arts Management and has received awards for her work in the Creative Arts.
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Kadija George is the founder/publisher of SABLE LitMag, and SABLE LitFest and is the editor of several anthologies. She set up Inscribe at Peepal Tree Press, a professional development programme for writers of African and Asian descent and is now the series editor for their Inscribe imprint, the first anthology is Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry (2010).
Kadija has project managed large scale literary events, including FWords: the creative project to commemorate the Parliamentary Act of 1807 to abolish the British Slave Trade for ACE Yorkshire. She is a published poet in her own right (Irki, Peepal Tree 2013) and a forthcoming collection, The Modern PanAfricanist’s Journey.
She is a Fellow of the Kennedy Arts Centre of Performance Arts Management.
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Kadija George is the founder/publisher of SABLE LitMag, and SABLE LitFest and is the editor of several anthologies. She set up Inscribe at Peepal Tree Press, a professional development programme for writers of African and Asian descent and is now the series editor for their Inscribe imprint, the first anthology is Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry (2010) and currently co-directs the project with poet, Dorothea Smartt.
Kadija has project managed large scale literary events, including FWords : the creative project to commemorate the Parliamentary Act of 1807 to abolish the British Slave Trade for ACE Yorkshire (2007) including the follow up tour in the USA, the Creative Case ‘Black British Perspective Conversations’. (2009) And Word from Africa at the British Museum (2008).
Her creative writing can be found in various anthologies and journals. Her first poetry collection Irki (Peepal Tree, 2013) will soon be followed by The Modern PanAfricanist’s Journey for which she received an Arts Council Award (2014).
She is a George Bell Fellow and a Fellow of the Kennedy Arts Centre for Performance Arts Management and has received several awards for her work in the Creative Arts.
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Kadija George (writes as Kadija Sesay) majored in West African Studies at Birmingham University. She is the founder/publisher of SABLE LitMag, and SABLE LitFest. She is the editor of several anthologies of work by writers of African and Asian descent, including the series editor for the Inscribe imprint for Peepal Tree Press. Anthologies include, Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa (with Nii Ayikwei Parkes) and IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (with Courttia Newland) and Write Black, and Write British: From Post Colonial to Black British Literature. She has published her own poetry, short stories, essays and articles in magazines, journals, anthologies and encyclopaedias in the UK, USA and Africa and has been broadcast on BBC World Service.
Kadija has co-ordinated various literary events, such as ‘Word from Africa’ at the British Museum (2008) and organizes SABLE international writer’s residencies. She is the co-director of Inscribe, a professional development project for writers of African and Asian descent. She is a fellow of the George Bell Institute, a Fellow of the Kennedy Arts Centre of Performance Arts Management and an associate of Vision Quest International. She has received several awards for her work in the creative arts.
Her poetry collection is Irki (‘Homeland’ in the Nubian language) Peepal Tree, 2013. She received an Arts Council England Award to research and exhibit works from her forthcoming collection, The Modern PanAfricanist’s Journey. She is also working on a collection of short stories, ‘This is Africa’ but don’t be surprised if other books appear in between!
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