Can we read something else? Cambridge University grad students Jill Damatac-Futter and Maxine Sibihwana are making their own canon as writers and readers (they're in the Master's in Creative Writing programme) and bring on special guests to chat about all things books, publishing, diversity, decolonisation, and the art of writing.
Jill Damatac-Futter and Maxine Sibihwana
In their third episode, Maxine and Jill come back from a months-long hiatus, a.k.a. trying to read and write during a global pandemic. They talk about books they have (and haven't) read, how they have (or haven't) been writing, and how events over the past year, heightened by the pandemic, have affected them as readers and writers.
In this second episode, Jill and Maxine are talking TRASH BOOKS! Sarah Coquillat of @bookishandblack on Instagram joins to talk about reading guilty pleasures, our fave guilty pleasure reads, why they're actually not trash, and the long history of "trash" writers (Mark Twain, anyone?).
In this first episode, Jill and Maxine are all about diversity in book prizes, writing prizes, and how to navigate both as a reader and writer, especially with the release of the 2020 Booker Prize Longlist. Their first guest is Dr. Midge Gillies, one of their tutors in the Master's in Creative Writing programme at Cambridge University. Bonus: one of us has a little surprise to share!
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