‘Provocative’ story about British Museum statue wins 4thWrite prize Piyumi Kapugeekiyana’s tale explores repatriation and cultural ownership through a replica of the goddess Tārā The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2025
4thWrite prize shortlist offers up ‘daring, imaginative’ new voices The six contenders for the short story prize for unpublished writers of colour took judges on a ‘dizzying, whirlwind tour across borders, through a gamut of emotions high and low’ The Guardian - UK · Sep 19, 2025
‘Full-circle moment’: Candice Carty-Williams joins judging panel as 4thWrite prize opens for entries The author who founded the short story competition will be one of judges this year as the search begins for new writers of colour The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2025
The Long Wave: Poet Caleb Femi’s tender ode to Black nightlife in London The British Nigerian writer’s beautiful new collection captures the spirit and importance of house parties. Plus, remembering Toni Morrison’s oeuvre The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2025
The best recent poetry – review roundup The Wickedest by Caleb Femi; Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus; The Keelie Hawk by Kathleen Jamie; Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2024
What connects The Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach and poet Simon Armitage? By a series of cunning connections involving Lena Dunham and Forward prize winner Caleb Femi, we speed all the way from a Chicago diner to the UK poet laureate The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2022
On my radar: Lucy Kirkwood’s cultural highlights The playwright on the poetry and silliness of Aldous Harding, an inspiring new theatre in Suffolk and binge-reading Saba Sams’s short stories The Guardian - UK · Jun 25, 2022