Dr Kadija George Sesay, FRSA, Hon. FRSL, is known as an anthologist, having (co)edited several books of fiction, poetry, drama and creative non-fiction, zither first being a Six Plays by and Asian Women Writer (1993) and the latest Encounters with James Baldwin : Celebrating 100 years (2024).
She is the Publications Manager for Inscribe/Peepal Tree Press, for whom she has commissioned a series of Black British literature anthologies the latest one being GLIMPSE: Speculative Fiction by Black British Writers (2022). She founded, published and edited SABLE LitMag from 2000 for 15 years as well as publishing and broadcasting her own creative work including a poetry collection, Irki (2013) and in anthologies such as New Daughters of Africa (2019).
Her thesis on Black Publishers and Pan-Africanism is due to be published by Africa World Press. She is the founder of the ‘International Black Speculative Writing Festival’ co-founder of ‘Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport’ and she is currently developing her Arts Council funded-project AfriPoeTree, a Selective Interactive Video of Poetry and Pan-African History. In 2020 she received an MBE for services to Literature.
For TLC Kadija reads Speculative Fiction and General Fiction.
