by Alice Farkas | Oct 9, 2021 | Articles
London: its vibrancy as a city is magnetic, always has been. A melting pot of cultures that entices, invites, beckons – ‘come as you are.’ For the LGBTQI+ community, London offered a place of relative freedom in the 1980s. For the punks of the 70s, the capital...
by Alice Farkas | Sep 13, 2021 | Articles, Authors
Earlier this year, Heady Mix spoke with author Nigerian-American author Chinelo Okparanta. Chinelo’s list of accolades and awards is extensive and includes being named as Granta’s Best of Young American Novelist in 2017 for her novel Under the Udala Trees. It...
by Alice Farkas | May 23, 2021 | Articles, Authors
In part II of our conversation with writer Masande Ntshanga, author of Triangulum – a novel that featured in the 2019 Heady Mix theme ‘Afrofuturism’, we discussed the context of the genre and to what extent it is aligned to Africa and African writers… Heady...
by Alice Farkas | May 15, 2021 | Articles, Authors
Ausma Zehanat Kahn is the award-winning author of the hugely successful Khattak and Getty crime novel series. This sequence of books has brought Ausma critical acclaim for stories centred on solving crimes in some of Canada’s most vulnerable communities. From Toronto...
by Alice Farkas | May 1, 2021 | Articles, Authors
Earlier this year, we sat down to talk over Zoom with award-winning South African writer Masande Ntshanga. Masande’s second work of fiction Triangulum featured in a Heady Mix collection back in September 2019, titled Afrofuturism. The thematic context behind this book...
