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✍🏾 Spec-fic writer, journalist 📚 Rep: Sara Langham, DHA Books ⭐ Board member, The Lit Platform ⭐ Runner up Commonword Fiction Prize 2018

I'm holding up the open pages of the novel "Scaffolding" by Lauren Elkin. In the background you can see sunny skies and Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris.
A photo of Avenue du Suffren in Paris, you can see a crossroads with a line of apartment buildings and the Eiffel Tower looks in the background.
A cherry tree in my back garden.
A cardamom bun from Juno the bakery
A view of Bournemouth beach
A view of the sea in Bournemouth
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
A green parrot in the branches of a tree
Cynthia Erivo on stage for Dracula
A stack of history books on Jamaica and the Maroons on a desk in one of the reading rooms at the British Libray
I'm holding up the book The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
Sufferah by Alex Wheatle
The books "Death of the Author" and the Folio edition of the Binti trilogy side by side
A list of the top UK audio books on Spotify this year with Gary Stevenson's the Trading Game at the top
An art work by Kerry James Marshall showing people in a library of the future
The novels "Black Sun," "Fevered Star," and "Mirrored Heavens" stood side by side
My Spotify wrapped showing the songs in order of most listened to: Pump me Up by Krosfyah, Reincarnated by Kendrick Lamar, Le Depart by Adi Oasis, Goliath by Jessie Reyez and Affirmations by Renn Olympus
Temi Oh in conversation with Adrian Tchaikovsky at Waterstones
My sister and I at a pre-screening of Wicked for Good. A billboard featuring the actors and yellow brick road is the backdrop
A screenshot of the audible app showing the novel "Fundamentally" by Nussaibah Younis
French copies of Octavia Butler's novels
Stars in the night sky
A photo of me standing next to the romance author Talia Hibbert at the Black British Book Festival
Olivia-Savannah Roach, Talia Hibbert, Carol-Anne Royer and Aje Roberts seated at BBBF stage to discuss Romantasy.
On the stage at BBBF is Stephanie Yeboah, Bolu Babalola, Lisa Bent and Kya Buller.
A display showing a sign for the BBBF event at the barbican centre
A wrapped book with the clues: Post-apocalyptic, fatherhood, endurance, self sacrifice
A photo of the store front of Upper Street Bookshop in near Angel station in North London
A photo of a canal in Amsterdam
A special edition of the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The shop front of the Notting Hill Bookshop
Vanessa Williams and the cast of the Devil Wears Prada musical dancing as the audience applauds the close of the musical
A photo of the cast of the Evita musical on stage. Rachel Zegler curtsies and receives applause
A view of the Sicilian coast from Taormina
A photo of a market display in Palermo showing an array of seafood and pasta
A photo of myself and my sister standing back to back holding up the novel 'Problematic Summer Romance' by Ali Hazelwood.
A page out of "Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures." The page is titled 'I came to Africa on a spaceship' and has the author's name, Ytasha L. Womack.
A photo of the book Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele
A photo of the exterior of The Margate Bookshop
A photo of my writing notebook and an iced coffee on a table in a cafe
A photo of the book Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse.
A photo of book shelves in Foyles, Charing Cross, London
A screenshot of the audio book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs.
A screenshot of a page from "Artificial Condition" by Martha Wells. The highlighted quote reads: "I know, I said, if the humans were dead, who would make the media? It was so outrageous, it sounded like something a human would say."
A photo of the book Out There Screaming: An anthology of Black horror, edited by Jordan Peele
A sign saying "welcome to Accompong" at the entrance of the village