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Rough Trade Books presents... Zakiya McKenzie
Exeter UNESCO City of Literature, Devon & Exeter Institution (DEI), and Rough Trade Books are partnering on an author series called Rough Trade Books presents… exploring contemporary topics in an atmosphere of idea exchange, conversation, and connection.
This series will bring renowned and innovative authors to Exeter in dialogue with experts from Devon, as well as the event attendees in an intimate, beautiful setting in DEI’s library.
Rough Trade Books presents... Zakiya McKenzie
For the second event in this series, Rough Trade Books author and journalist Zakiya McKenzie will be in conversation with researcher and campaigner Lewis Winks. They will be discussing land ownership, the effects of colonization and capitalism on the natural environment, and nature writing in the South West.
Thursday 13th April, 6.00 - 7.30pm
Zakiya McKenzie is a PhD candidate with the Leverhulme Trust-supported Caribbean Literary Heritage project at the University of Exeter researching Black British journalism in the post-war period. Zakiya is a writer and storyteller and was the 2019 writer-in-residence for Forestry England during its centenary year. In Bristol, she was 2017 Black and Green Ambassador and is a volunteer at Ujima Community Radio station. She regularly leads nature, art and writing workshops, including one on Caribbean storytelling for primary schools.
Her work has featured at the Cabot Institute for the Environment at the University of Bristol, the Institute for Modern Languages Research at the University of London, the Hepworth Wakefield Gallery, the Free Word Centre, at Cheltenham Literature Festival, on BBC’s Woman’s Hour, Farming Today and Inside Out West. She has written for Smallwoods Magazine, the Willowherb Review and BBC Wildlife Magazine.
Bookbag - Exeter’s only independent bookshop - will sell books, zines, and pamphlets at the event.
After Rough Trade Books presents… ends, the events will be transcribed and designed into a Rough Trade Books pamphlet with Rough Trade Books award-winning design team Office of Craig and Exeter College students working in collaboration. It will be available for sale at DEI and independent bookshops.
2023 is the year of Rough Trade Books’ 5th year anniversary and this series forms part of the many events that are taking place to celebrate this independent publisher.
These events are pay what you can afford - £10/£5/FoC