Acts of love and philosophy: In conversation with Irenosen Okojie | Intellect Skip to content
1981
The Health of the Short Story: Part 1
  • ISSN: 2043-0701
  • E-ISSN: 2043-071X

Abstract

An interview with leading British fiction-writer Irenosen Okojie, transcribed and edited following a Zoom conversation with Lucy Dawes Durneen in December 2021 in Cambridge. It also includes questions from creative writing students. Okojie discusses her own practice as short story writer, including the choice of titles and short story endings, and issues of representation facing Black writers, especially in relation to female characters. She also discusses her non-fiction as a method of dealing with trauma and feelings of vulnerability.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.1386/fict_00055_7
2022-04-01
2024-04-29
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

References

  1. Carver, Raymond. ( 1994;), ‘ On writing. ’, in C. E. May. (ed.), The New Short Story Theories, Athens, OH:: Ohio University Press;, pp. 27377.
    [Google Scholar]
  2. Johnson, Denis. ( 1992), Jesus’ Son, New York:: Farrar, Straus and Giroux;.
    [Google Scholar]
  3. King, Stephen. ( 2007;), ‘ What ails the short story. ’, New York Times, 30 September, https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/review/King2-t.html. Accessed 20 March 2022.
    [Google Scholar]
  4. Nelson, Maggie. ( 2009), Bluets, Seattle, WA and New York:: Wave Books;.
    [Google Scholar]
  5. Nelson, Maggie. ( 2015), The Argonauts, Minneapolis, MN:: Graywolf Press;.
    [Google Scholar]
  6. Okojie, Irenosen. ( 2015), Butterfly Fish, London:: Jacaranda;.
    [Google Scholar]
  7. Okojie, Irenosen. ( 2016), Speak Gigantular, London:: Jacaranda;.
    [Google Scholar]
  8. Okojie, Irenosen. ( 2019), Nudibranch, London:: Dialogue Books;.
    [Google Scholar]
  9. Okojie, Irenosen. ( 2021a;), ‘ MBE award for services in literature. ’, irenosenokojie.com , 19 June, https://www.irenosenokojie.com/news/2021/6/19/mbe-award-for-services-to-literature. Accessed 10 January 2022.
  10. Okojie, Irenosen. ( 2021b;), ‘ Dwaal. ’, lucywritersplatform.com , 4 October, https://lucywritersplatform.com/2021/10/04/dwaal-by-irenosen-okojie/. Accessed 5 December 2021.
http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.1386/fict_00055_7
Loading
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a success
Invalid data
An error occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error