Local publisher calls for Haringey writers

Haringey publisher Indie Novella are launching a new anthology written by its local communities – Damien Mosley explains more

For me, living in Haringey means I’ve become part of a local community, from chatting with Tim at All Good Bookshop to
spending a week at the end of last summer attending all the amazing events at the Haringey Arts Festival. We have an incredibly diverse community, which people from all around the world have been able to call home over the years. Haringey is somewhere I feel I belong, that accepts me for who I am.

Our publishing house, Indie Novella, is thrilled to launch an open call for Haringey and Hackneybased writers this month. The anthology, which is funded by Arts Council England, aims to both showcase the work of local writers, poets and authors, and shine a light on the wonderful, diverse communities they represent. We are particularly excited about our launch event which will be followed by a panel discussion where local authors and publishers will talk more about the project, how Indie Novella is bringing more local writers into publishing, and how you and your community can get involved.

We are looking for anything between 30 and 5,000 words – an extract of a novel, a short story, poetry, essays, opinion pieces – and it can cover any theme just as long as it is your own work. Your extract also does not need to be in English and we welcome submissions in any language, especially ones closest to your communities.

With each submission we want to hear about you and your story. It can be a couple of hundred words or a bit longer, and can be anything you want: what being a resident of Haringey means to you; how you came to live here; how you feel it has changed in your time; or just about you and anything you want to say. We want our anthology to provide an authentic representation of the wide and varied voices of our communities and showcase the creativity that stems from them. We were, after all, founded to promote writing at a grassroots level in local communities. One of the key reasons Indie Novella was set up was to give a voice to writers whose stories previously went unheard and to tell the world what being part of our local communities is really like.

Find out more at the Indie Novella website.

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