Come Down to Afrori Bookshop To Hear Authors Read and Perform Their Work!

I'm excited for the opportunity to read from Reputation this Sunday 15 November, down at Afrori Books. The session starts at 3pm and is part of the Brighton Book Festival year-round programme of events.

Massive thanks to Oliviyah, Janice and everyone involved with the Brighton Book Festival and Afrori Books for facilitating.

Are you waiting for an invitation?

Come on down! Meet new authors! Hear us read or perform from our poetry or prose! Get books signed! Browse the bookshop and pick up titles you've always wanted but not gotten around to getting just yet.

Here's your link to sign-up for the event: https://www.brightonbookfestival.co.uk/products/off-the-page-open-mic-for-authors-and-writers

Start your Christmas shopping for the readers in your life!

The first time I visited the Afrori Bookshop in person, I just said 'hello'. We were having a family day out and I couldn't spend too long. The next time I came by, I had a proper browse and left with copies of Baldwin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs' Survival is a Promise, which explores the life of Audre Lorde.

[Many of you have seen that photo of me where I'm sitting against a tree trunk, reading a book? That book is my copy of Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider].

Afrori Bookshop stocks exclusively Black-authored books from across the diaspora and across time. So you get your classics and your contemporary books; your recent releases and your children's books too.

If you've never visited the iconic little treasure that is Afrori Books, maybe the Open Mic session on Sunday 15 November is exactly the prompt you've been waiting for! And never fear, the Afrori Bookshop is a short walk down the sloping street from the Brighton railway station. Here's the address: Brighthelm Centre, North Road, Brighton, BN1 1YD. https://maps.app.goo.gl/J6M6Q1S6fooZL3ga8

Oh, and to order your digital copy of Reputation from Afrori, go here!

See you there!