TLC Showcase
The Literary Consultancy is excited to be working in association with Staple Magazine on an innovative showcase for its writing talent, both online and live at the Free Word Centre. See TLC Showcase Introduction for more on this and showcase editor Wayne Burrows.
Once a month we will highlight the work of one author whose work we have helped en route to commercial publication, or whose work a reader particularly championed.
We look forward to reading your feedback or comments on our Facebook discussion page.
This month’s showcase author is:
Fawzia Kane
Fawzia Muradali Kane was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago at the cusp of the country’s changeover from being a colony to independence. Kane came to the UK on a scholarship to study architecture. She practiced as an architect in Trinidad for some years, and now lives in London. Along with Mike Kane she is co-director of KMK Architects.
Kane’s poetry has been published in several journals including Agenda, Brittle Star, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, and Rialto.
Her debut poetry collection “Tantie Diablesse” (Waterloo Press) was launched in autumn 2011.
A long sequence of poems Houses of the Dead is due out in 2012 by Sylph Editions as part of their Ellipsis Series.
“Your TLC mentor is less an editor, more a tutor and guide, and for me, the mentoring process felt like an exchange of ideas. Only after it finished, did I realize Sara’s skill as a tutor in directing me to think (and hence write) in new ways.”
Extract from Introduction – included in the showcase.
“Chantal walks towards me and sits on the other side of the fire. Those beautiful eyes reflect the flames and when the moon is at its highest point, the sounds of the night will tell me of all that was seen and heard during the day. There was dew on the grass, perhaps, the branches of a tree were in bud, or a bird sang while it lay dying. Chantal knows the world is made of simple things. She knows that the world either is or isn’t, and that the is is good and the isn’t is a well that holds no water. The isn’t has an empty belly, and a thin blanket.”
Extract from La Bonita Cuentista – included in the showcase.
Fawzia Kane Showcase
Introduction
Extract from La Bonita Cuentista
About the Writer
