How Can Black Authors Define Themselves In An Overwhelming White Publishing Industry?

  • Maame Blue

It should come as no surprise to anybody that the problems facing black authors in the publishing industry are systematic. But what now? Maame Blue explores this for Black Ballad

My background doesn’t define me. I have spent most of my life trying to prove this theory; trying to forge a path to ‘individuality’ that didn’t involve my Ghanaian heritage, my London upbringing by way of Essex, my psychology and psychotherapy degrees, my lack of a creative writing qualification, or even my work in the public sector.

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