Courttia Newland (External Editor)
Courttia Newland is the author of seven books including his much
lauded debut, The Scholar. His latest novel, A River Called Time,
was published in 2021 and Cosmogramma, a story collection, will be
published later in the year. His short stories have featured in
various anthologies and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. He was
shortlisted for the 2007 CWA Dagger in the Library Award and the
2010 Alfred Fagon Award. In 2016 he was also awarded the Tayner
Barbers Award for science fiction writing and the Roland Rees
Bursary for playwriting. As a screenwriter, he has written episodes
of Steve McQueen's 2020 BBC series Small Axe.
Kadija Sesay (External Editor)
Kadija (George) Sesay, Hon. FRSL, FRSA, is a literary activist of
Sierra Leonean descent. She is the founder of the magazine SABLE
LitMag and creator of AfriPoeTree, a selective interactive video.
She is the Publications Manager for Inscribe/Peepal Tree and editor
of several anthologies including Six Plays by Black and Asian Women
Writers and Write Black, Write British- From Postcolonial to Black
British Literature. She co-edited Dreams, Miracles and Jazz- New
Adventures in African Fiction with Helon Habila and Dance the Guns
to Silence- 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa with Nii Parkes. She has
published her creative writing in several anthologies, and a poetry
collection, Irki (Peepal Tree, 2013). She is a co-founder of Mboka
Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport in The Gambia and has received
awards and fellowships for her work in the creative arts and her
research, including an AHRC doctoral scholarship to research Black
British publishers and Pan-Africanism.
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