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It was was exciting that May We Borrow Your Country was shortlisted for ‘Best Anthology’ by the Saboteur Awards. We had a fabulous time at the awards ceremony. Here are a few pictures. Thank you to everyone who voted for us!

May We Borrow Your Country, The Whole Kahani’s new anthology, published by Linen Press, launched at Waterstones, Gower Street, to a packed audience.

Authors read their pieces to laughs and sighs. Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young and winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize, 2108, along with publisher Lynn Michell led a thought provoking panel discussion and finally opened it up to the audience to fire away their questions.

The launch for May We Borrow Your Country took place on the 26th of January, 2019 at Waterstones, Gower Street.
Preti Taneja, winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize, 2018, who has written the foreword for the book, introduced The Whole Kahani. Contributors read brief excerpts from the book and publisher Lynn Michell of Linen Press described what attracted her to the anthology. This was followed by a short panel discussion on the representation of minority voices in literature, after which we opened to Q&A from the audience, and book signing.
It was a truly lively evening with wine and samosas!

The Whole Kahani members are going from prize to prize! Mona Dash has just been shortlisted for the prestigious SI Leeds Prize. It awards unpublished fiction by UK-based Black and Asian women. Good luck, Mona!

​You can hear Mona read from her work with the shortlisted writers at South Bank on the 23rd of October.

The Whole Kahani members are flying high. Kavita A. Jindal has been shortlisted for The Impress Prize 2018 for the manuscript of her debut novel. The Prize is offered by Impress Books to new writers of book-length fiction or non-fiction.

We’re delighted to announce our next anthology: May We Borrow Your Country is going to be out soon!

May We Borrow Your Country is a collection of stories and poems that looks at dislocation and displacement with sympathy, tolerance and humour. These pieces are peopled by courageous, poignant, eccentric individuals who cross borders, accommodate to new cultures and try to establish an identity in a new place. In the process, they encounter different versions of themselves, like reflections in a room of trick mirrors.

They are evocative and multi-layered in their portrayal of relationships, family, ambition, careers and friendship. They offer a fresh, contemporary look at metamorphosis and many catch that fleeting moment of transition between the familiar and the new.

The collection has found its home with the wonderful Linen Press. Look out for it in January 2019.

We are delighted for Catherine and know that this is a collection that’s worth getting your hands on as soon as it hits the shelves. Here’s a little bit about it:
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Subjunctive Moods, by C. G. Menon. From Dahlia Publishing
ISBN: 9780995634435
PUBLICATION DATE: 5th July 2018
Link: http://dahlia-books.kong365.com/en-gb/products/subjunctive-moods

In Malaysia, a young girl discovers the seeds of friendship turning into love. A ghostly aunt causes more trouble than she’s worth, and a sea-monster yearns for her poolside home. Family secrets confound two widows in Northumberland, and a third turns to the sea for comfort.

The stories in Subjunctive Moods are based around those tiny moments of missed connection and of realisation: the heartbeats by which we all grow up.

Featuring CG Menon’s prize-winning writing alongside her most recent stories, Subjunctive Moods is a collection exploring the complexities of human relationships, cultural identity, and finding your way back home.

It was a lovely, sunny day to be reading from Love Across a Broken Map at the Durham Book Festival. Here are some pictures from the day.