When I was young, our Scottish council estate was worst in the winter months. The lack of sunlight, just a few hours a day, meant that days were short, and night time was always a worry because of the sectarian violence that would break out at odd times, between people you hadn’t even known didn’t […]
This week we’re shining a spotlight on Colleen Crimmins, the audiobook narrator of The Sunset Gang, the critically-acclaimed collection of short stories that inspired the beloved PBS trilogy. What do you look for in a project? Is there a particular genre you gravitate towards? What initially drew you to The Sunset Gang? I’m drawn to works […]
The first scribblings I wrote felt like breaking bread for a new religion. I wrote drunk on Mildred D. Taylor, Rosa Guy, Roald Dahl, S.E Hinton. I wrote poems about the time I went missing in a Lagos amusement park as a kid, then like a small miracle turned up unscathed, puzzled by all the […]
I guess, the seed of writing was first planted in my mind in reverie whilst lying on my back staring at the different shapes that clouds formed of their own accord, at my father’s coffee farm in rural Kenya. I wanted to capture my life from the clouds and shout to the world about it. […]
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The Baby-Sitters Club, Sweet Valley High, and Famous Five opened up new worlds to me – worlds I could actually be part of, and exist in, at the same time as the physical one I knew. At 14, I was burning through books accessible to me like wildfire, much to the disadvantage of my academic […]
I knew three things about myself when I was growing up. I never wanted to get married, I didn’t want to have children, and I always wanted to live out of a suitcase. I took two years off from college to travel in Europe. The whole time I was wondering how I was going to […]
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