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Episode Synopsis
This week Anna and Sam chat creative writing with wonderful author Rosanna Amaka. Tune in for our conversation about writing to a deadline (or not), finding inspiration in unexpected places and writing your way out of a creative block.
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Rosanna Amaka is a writer from London, and is of African and Caribbean heritage. Her debut novel ‘The Book of Echoes’, was shortlisted for The Authors’s Club First Novel Award, The RSL Christopher Bland Prize and The HWA Debut Crown Award. Her second novel ‘Rose and the Burma Sky’ was inspired by a conversation with her grandmother and follows the journey of an African soldier fighting in WW2.
Follow Rosanna @rosannaamaka
Rosanna Amaka is a writer from London, and is of African and Caribbean heritage. Her debut novel ‘The Book of Echoes’, was shortlisted for The Authors’s Club First Novel Award, The RSL Christopher Bland Prize and The HWA Debut Crown Award. Her second novel ‘Rose and the Burma Sky’ was inspired by a conversation with her grandmother and follows the journey of an African soldier fighting in WW2.
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