'Mrs Death Misses Death' shortlisted for The Bad Form Review Book Of The Year

 

Blown away to see Mrs Death Misses Death 

included in this epic line up of beautiful books! Thank you!

What an amazing start to the week! So excited to see my book shortlisted for the @badformreview BOOK OF THE YEAR



Bad Form are the award-winning literary review by and 

about Black, Asian, and racialised community writers.

This award is chosen by public vote, so if you loved my 

life-affirming fire-starter of a novel then head over to @badformreview’s instagram stories and add your votes!!

I think this is a phenomenal list, huge congrats to all!

You can vote for your winner on instagram stories here: https://instagram.com/badformreview/

Bad Form has announced its first Book of the Year shortlist, including works by Natasha Brown, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Salena Godden.

Publishers, authors and readers were encouraged to submit their own favourite titles by Black, Asian, and racialised community writers published in 2021. After more than 300 nominations, the Bad Form team narrowed them down to a shortlist of 11 books. 

"2021 has been another exciting year for Black, Asian, and racialised community authors, and we at Bad Form are thrilled to create another opportunity to celebrate them," this year's Book of the Year 2021 shortlist has been revealed! 

Read more in The Bookseller:  https://bit.ly/3nZZdk

I'll leave you with this: Here is a reading of The Red Tower chapter from Mrs Death Misses Death performed at the Gordon Burn Prize Ceremony, Durham Book Festival, October 2021. Watch the piece in full on my Facebook and YouTube 

This week: BBC R4 'Quote ... Unquote' + Sky Arts TV 'Life & Rhymes'

BAFTA award-winning 

Life & Rhymes 

Season 2 is here! Treat yourself to beautiful poetry, 

breathtaking spoken word, hopeful, powerful, soulful voices 

filling up your telly box. 

Tune in Sky Arts at 9pm

Hosted by the mighty 

Professor Benjamin Zephaniah

I'm on Episode 3 with my great friend, poet and author Lemn Sissay  

I will do an exclusive reading from Mrs Death Misses Death 

Episode 3: Wednesday November 24th

'Quote ... Unquote'

I’m delighted to be a guest on brilliant BBC panel game show Quote...Unquote on BBC Radio 4 - The new series launched this month with their 500th episode. Each new episode is broadcast BBC Radio 4, Monday afternoons at 3pm teatime. Put the kettle on and join us and play along in guessing the quotes!

Monday 22nd November at 3pm &

Monday 13th December at 3pm

The People's Book Prize

Thank you to everyone who has voted in The People's Book Prize 

If you want to join in and add your vote, here's the link again, 

it takes just a few seconds ... VOTE Mrs Death Misses Death

Thank you Canongate. Thank you everyone!

 https://peoplesbookprize.com

Sunburnt Saints

PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 30th 2021

 

 An indispensable anthology of climate fiction featuring 

Billy O'Callaghan (My Coney Island Baby), Antonia Honeywell (The Ship), 

Carmen Marcus (How Saints Die), Michael Walters (The Complex), 

Elisabeth Ingram Wallace (winner of the Mogford Short Story Prize) 

and Salena Godden (Mrs Death Misses Death) and many, many more.  

Pre-order link: https://biggreenbookshop.com

'Some stories can change you forever. 

What you do with that change is up to you.'

Roaring 20s Radio

LISTEN BACK to the latest episode of Roaring 20s Radio 

Now available to stream back in full as a podcast. 

We are joined live in the Soho Radio studio by Amy Acre of Bad Betty Press

Available wherever you usually listen to your podcasts or via @anchor 

https://anchor.fm/roaring20sradio

For my 2021 highlights please visit

https://linktr.ee/salenagodden

Thank you xx 

... NEWS JUST IN from Canongate: Thrilled that the wonderful

@salenagodden

's MRS DEATH MISSES DEATH has been shortlisted for the

@badformreview

BOOK OF THE YEAR! Their BOOK OF THE YEAR is chosen by public vote, so if Mrs Death & Wolf's story moved you this year head to their Instagram to vote: http://instagram.com/badformreview/

'Mrs Death Misses Death' selected for The People's Book Prize - Voting open now!

 

I have some very nice news today.

I just found out that Mrs Death Misses Death has been selected for The People's Book Prize for fiction. The prize is voted for by readers and book lovers, so it is extra special for me that MDMD has been longlisted and acknowledged in this way. 

You can have your vote now

 

 https://peoplesbookprize.com

Have a look on the website, there's a glorious list of books to choose from and I'm very honoured to be mentioned alongside these outstanding novels and writers. It has been quite a year. 

Thank you, The People's Book Prize #TPBP  

Thank you to everyone who has engaged in this work. 

Thank you to all who liked and shared, instagrammed and reviewed the book and audiobook and thanks to everyone that came to a zoom or a live reading of this work this year. 

The new soft-touch lapis-blue paperback is at the printers 

and will be published and launched, 20 January 2022

Please VOTE for Mrs Death Misses Death, 

Thank you Canongate. Thank you everyone!

 https://peoplesbookprize.com

Where YOU judge...

new and undiscovered literary works!

BAFTA award-winning 

Life & Rhymes 

Season 2 is here ... Woop!

 

Episode 1: Wednesday November 10th

Treat yourself to beautiful poetry, 

breathtaking spoken word, 

hopeful, powerful, soulful voices 

filling up your telly box. 

Tune in Sky Arts at 9pm

Hosted by the mighty 

Professor Benjamin Zephaniah

You can watch my contribution 

- an exclusive reading from Mrs Death Misses Death -

Episode 3: Wednesday November 24th

NEW book, coming soon

SUNBURNT SAINTS

PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 30th 2021

 

 An indispensable anthology of climate fiction featuring Billy O'Callaghan (My Coney Island Baby), Antonia Honeywell (The Ship), Carmen Marcus (How Saints Die), Michael Walters (The Complex), Elisabeth Ingram Wallace (winner of the Mogford Short Story Prize) and Salena Godden (Mrs Death Misses Death) and many, many more.  

Pre-order link: https://biggreenbookshop.com

'Some stories can change you forever. 

What you do with that change is up to you.'