"Writing allows me to be audacious, bold and loud without immediate interruption or society’s disapproving gaze.”

Former Cultureword writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, described as “a genius storyteller” (Reni Eddo-Lodge), has received a plethora of recognition for her short stories and novels. At this 'In Conversation' event Makumbi will speak with Commonword’s Co-Artistic Director Cheryl Martin on the theme of freedom for writers and how we can all dream beyond our immediate horizons.

Event Time: 1 hour including a Q&A (+10 minute screening of "We Want to Dream" short films)

Free, Suggested Donation £10

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Access: This event will have a BSL interpreter as well as AI-generated auto-captioning. Please e-mail radhaika@cultureword.org.uk with any questions.

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Bios of Speakers

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a fiction writer of The First Woman 2020, (A Girl is a Body of Water for US/Canada) which won the Jhalak Prize Book of the Year 2021, was shortlisted for The Diverse Book Award 2021, the Encore Prize 2021, the James Tait Black Prize 2021 and longlisted for The Aspen Words Literary Prize 2021.

Her first novel, Kintu, won the Kwani? Manuscript Project 2013, the Prix Transfuge Du Meilluer Premier Roman Francais (2019) shortlisted for Edward Stanford Awards (2019) Longlisted for The Prix Du Medicis (2019)

Her collection of short stories, Manchester Happened, (Let’s Tell This Story Properly for US/Canada) was shortlisted for The Big Book prize: Harper’s Bazaar 2019 and longlisted for Edge Hill Prize.

A recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize 2018, Makumbi won the Global Commonwealth Short story prize 2014. She has a PhD from Lancaster University and has taught in several universities in Britain.