Marcelle Mateki Akita is an author, shortlisted for the 2018 Morland Writing Scholarships, and curator of joyful programmes celebrating African and Black literatures. She produces Bernie Grant Arts Centre’s Tottenham Literature Festival and Apples and Snakes’ SPINE Festival. She previously produced the Royal African Society’s Africa Writes at the British Library, worked with the Caine Prize for African Writing and co-founded Afrikult. Her short fiction is published in journals, and her children’s books are published by Rising Star (Hachette UK). She is completing her first novel and a children’s adventure series. Marcelle is represented by The Good Literary Agency.

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