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Mona Dash, Nadia Kabir Barb and Shibani Lal are three writers from The Whole Kahani, a collective of South-Asian writers based in the UK. In this event, they will discuss the meaning of BAME when it comes to creativity and their own writing. Is it a label that stifles the imagination or does it highlight a traditionally underrepresented group? Chaired by Reshma Ruia.

Mona Dash is the author of A Roll of the Dice: a story of loss, love and genetics, winner of Eyelands Book Award 2020 for memoir. Her other published books include two collections of poetry, A Certain Way and Dawn-drops, and a novel Untamed Heart. She has been listed in various competitions, and in journals and more than eighteen anthologies. With a degree in engineering, an MBA, and a Masters in Creative Writing (with distinction) she works in a global tech company. She lives in London. http://www.monadash.net

Nadia Kabir Barb is a journalist and author of the collection of short stories 'Truth or Dare' (Bengal Lights Books 2017). Her work has been published in international literary journals and anthologies e.g. Wasafiri, The Missing Slate, Open Road Review, Six Seasons Review, Bengal Lights, Eclectic Mix and a winner of the Audio Arcadia Short Story Competition. She holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has worked in the health and development sector in both the UK and Bangladesh. She is currently a columnist for the Dhaka Tribune and is working on her first novel.
Twitter: @NadiaKabirBarb
Instagram: @nadiakb04

Shibani Lal writes short stories, children’s books and flash fiction. She was a finalist for the 2019 Hamlin Garland award, and won the 2019 Autumn Term City University Writing Competition. In addition, her stories have been longlisted in several competitions, including the Bath Short Story Award, the Bristol Prize, the Fish Short Story Prize and the Cambridge Short Story Prize. She was the runner-up for the 2015 Asian Writer Short Story prize. Her work has been published in the UK (Dahlia Press, Linen Press). Shibani’s children’s story, “The Maharaja of Mastipur and the Pet Tiger” was published in August 2020, and she has just completed her short-story collection.
An avid swimmer, Shibani competes in international open-water swims, and she holds an MPhil in Economics from Cambridge University.

​​​Reshma Ruia is an award winning author and poet. Her first novel, Something Black in the Lentil Soup, was described in the Sunday Times as ‘a gem of straight-faced comedy.’ Her second novel manuscript, A Mouthful of Silence, was shortlisted for the 2014 SI Leeds Literary Prize. Her short stories and poems have appeared in various British and International anthologies and magazines and commissioned for BBC Radio 4. Her debut collection of poetry,
A Dinner Party in the Home Counties, won the 2019 Debut Word Masala Award. Her short story collection, Mrs Pinto Drives to Happiness will be published next year. She has a PhD and Masters in Creative Writing from Manchester niversity(Distinction) as well as a Bachelor, and Masters Degree with Distinction from the London School of Economics. Reshma worked as a development economist with the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Food Programme of
the UN in Italy and the OECD in Paris, prior to moving to Manchester. She is the co-founder of The Whole Kahani-a writers’ collective of British South Asian writers, fiction editor of Jaggery magazine and book reviewer for Words of Colour. Born in India and brought up in Rome, her writing reflects the inherent
preoccupations of those who possess a multiple sense of belonging.​
​@RESHMARUIA
www.reshmaruia.com

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