Just So You Know
Published on 1. September 2020
155 pages
978-1-912681-83-9 (ISBN)
Description
A young woman weaves her experience of abuse into the folklore of her ancestors. A student addresses his OCD by writing letters to it. A Paralympic medallist reflects upon his journey into a challenging new lifestyle. From language politics to neurodivergence, cultural heritage to sexual identity, from immigration to race, these are insights shared with great care, sincerity, and often humour.
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Hanan Issa is a Welsh-Iraqi writer who explores narrative history and the ways we connect in her writing. She has collaborated with platforms including BBC Wales, Film4, Bush Theatre, Hay Festival, National Museum Wales, Artes Mundi, StAnza festival, Lumin Journal, and Literature Wales. She is the co-founder of the Where I'm Coming From open mic and her debut poetry pamphlet 'My Body Can House Two Hearts' is published by Burning Eye Books.
Content
- Intro
- About the Editors
- Title Page
- Notes from the Editors
- I, Invisible Immigrant - Derwen Morfayel
- Everything I Will Give You - Kandace Siobhan Walker
- Look At Me - Kate Cleaver
- Language as Water - Grug Muse
- Dear O - Josh Weeks
- Finding Voice - Taylor Edmonds
- Safe Histories - Dylan Huw
- Colonial Thinking, Education, Politics, Language and Race. From the Personal to the Political - Isabel Adonis
- A Reluctant Self - Ranjit Saimbi
- My Other(ed) Self - Özgür Uyanık
- What is boccia? Don't ask me, I just play it - Ricky Stevenson
- Crisp - Bethan Jones-Arthur
- Mzungu - Sarah Younan
- Bipolar Disorder - Dafydd Reeves
- The Other Side - Ruqaya Izzidien
- Belonging - Nasia Sarwar-Skuse
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
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- Copyright
