The Painstaking Task of the Translator by Carolyn Choa

• April 25th 2016

Carolyn Choa is a Patron of the SI Leeds Literary Prize and has acted as a translator on several Chinese films.  She was co-editor and translator of The Vintage Book of Contemporary…

A Writer’s Life by Aliya Ali-Afzal

• April 21st 2016

Sometimes, I feel like Spiderman. To anyone passing me in the street, I am an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life: dropping the children off at school, grabbing a coffee…

How To Write Your First Novel

• April 12th 2016

One of the judges on this year’s panel, Karen Onojaife won the SI Leeds Prize ‘Readers Choice’ in 2012 for her first novel, Borrowed Light.