{"id":2479,"date":"2019-03-02T10:40:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T10:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2019-03-02T14:15:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T14:15:59","slug":"adjoa-wiredu-published-as-part-of-jacarandas-twentyin2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2019\/03\/02\/adjoa-wiredu-published-as-part-of-jacarandas-twentyin2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjoa Wiredu published as part of Jacaranda&#8217;s #Twentyin2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2019\/03\/Adjoa-Wiredu-610x407.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2480 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2019\/03\/Adjoa-Wiredu-610x407.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2019\/03\/Adjoa-Wiredu-610x407.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2019\/03\/Adjoa-Wiredu-610x407-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/jan\/29\/jacaranda-reveals-publish-20-black-british-writers-in-2020-twentyin2020\">Independent publisher Jacaranda has recently launched it&#8217;s #Twentyin2020 initiative<\/a> to promote and &#8220;normalise&#8221; black writing and authors in the UK.\u00a0 Following a recent donation of \u00a325,000, the campaign has nominated 10 works of fiction, five works of non-fiction and five collections of poetry, written by black British writers, to be published next year.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the poets selected for publication is Adjoa Wiredu, who studied the MA in The Contemporary, will be working on a project called <em>On Reflection<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We wish Adjoa the best of luck with her project and are looking forward to seeing <em>On Reflection<\/em> when it is published next year.<\/p>\n<h4>Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/jiwarbarcelona.com\/adjoa-wiredu-writer-in-residency\/\">Jiwar Barcelona<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent publisher Jacaranda has recently launched it&#8217;s #Twentyin2020 initiative to promote and &#8220;normalise&#8221; black writing and authors in the UK.\u00a0 Following a recent donation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2019\/03\/02\/adjoa-wiredu-published-as-part-of-jacarandas-twentyin2020\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[178753,21632,1225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}