Sarah Manyika Ladipo to headline Writers’ Circle Literary Festival

Sarah Manyika Ladipo is the main attraction at the Writers’ Circle Literary Festival in London, UK on Saturday, July 27, 2024.

Diaspora Reflections is an organisation that connects members of the diaspora with well-curated events combining the arts, business, and wellness in the UK. For the last few years, they have been hosting music festivals, art exhibitions, readings of poetry and prose, and more. They also host a podcast that curates art, culture, sounds, and events that resonate with the black diaspora and its allies.

The Writers’ Circle Literary Festival is the newest project hosted by Diaspora Reflections in London on July 27. It will feature workshops, networking, and inspirational panel discussions, with a mix of established and emerging authors at The Africa Centre. Panel discussions with emerging and established authors, poets, playwrights, and industry participants will centre on the journey to becoming a writer and getting published.

The main attraction will be Sarah Ladipo Manyika, a writer of novels, short stories, and essays. And podcaster. She has been named one of the “100 Most Influential Africans” by New African in 2022 and has judged the Goldsmiths Prize, California Book Awards, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and Chaired the jury of the Pan-African Etisalat Prize. Sarah is a San Francisco Library Laureate, an Audie finalist, a Mary Carswell MacDowell fellow, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the National Advisory Board of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Ladipo will be running the writers’ workshop, as well as sharing her story on becoming a best-selling author.

There will also be a host of exciting authors, playwrights, poets, and editors such as Ore Agbaje-Williams, and Varaidzo, who will be sharing the stories of their journeys.

To take part in the festival, find more information here.

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