Join Footnote in celebrating the launch of three exciting new titles this summer. Authors Warona Jay, Amber Massie-Blomfield, and Tawseef Khan will be in conversation with moderator Serena to discuss their books, creative journeys, and the threads that connect their work.
Featuring
Warona Jay
Born in Botswana and raised in England, Warona Jay studied law at the University of Kent and King’s College London before switching to a creative writing PhD at Brunel. As a teen, she was shortlisted for the Sony Young Movellist of the Year Award judged by Malorie Blackman, and more recently, in 2020 she was longlisted for Penguin Random House’s WriteNow program. The Grand Scheme of Things is her debut novel.
Amber Massie-Blomfield
Amber Massie-Blomfield is a non-fiction writer and arts professional. Her first book, Twenty Theatres to See Before You Die, was published by Penned in the Margins in May 2018, and received the Society of Authors’ Michael Meyer Award. She has written for titles including The Independent, The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and The Stage. She won Gladstone Library’s political writer-in-residence prize 2019, was shortlisted for the 2019 Theatre Book Prize, and was writer-in-residence at Arthouse Jersey. Her new book, Acts of Resistance, will be released by Footnote Press and W. W. Norton in 2024.
Tawseef Khan
TAWSEEF KHAN is a qualified immigration solicitor and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Liverpool, where he examined the fairness of the British asylum system. He is also a graduate of the creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia, where he received the Seth Donaldson Memorial Bursary. His fiction has appeared in Lighthouse and Test Signal: a Northern anthology; his non-fiction in the New York Times, The Face and Hyphen. His debut non-fiction book Muslim, Actually was published by Atlantic in 2021. He lives in Manchester.