Swimming with Fishes - by Rasheda Ashanti Malcolm
Author Bio
Rasheda is an Author, Playwright, Journalist, Writing Coach, Festival Director, and Radio Presenter, with a back ground in gender base violence and domestic abuse, and a passion for empowering women and girls creatively. Her two novels, Swimming With Fishes, published in 2017 and had its audio rights bought out by Danish Publisher, Saga Egmont, the second largest publishing house, and Love Again, published in 2020, was one of the Jacaranda #Twentyin2020 Authors initiative. Her second novel, Love Again was short-listed for the Romantic Novelist Association Award 2021, in the Inclusion Category. Rasheda is the Founder and Director of the Hammersmith & Fulham annual Writers’ Festival for Female Authors of Colour, which host a short story and poetry competition for people aged 5 – adult. Her short story, Justice, was published in an anthology for young adults by Puffin in 2004 and her Play, ‘House of Women,’ was longlisted by the Bush and Angle Theatre Award in 2011. Rasheda has designed and written three Creative Writing Workshops; the flagship JustWrite, which provides a platform for new and seasoned writers, Writing to Exhale, which is an introduction to journaling, visualising, and writing for wellbeing, and Still I Write, for advanced writers and novelists, all aimed at women, online and face to face. Rasheda is the co-founder and CEO of The WILDE Foundation, (WILDE is an acronym for Women In Literature Development Empowerment) a women’s and girls’ charity that turns victims and survivors into INFLUENCERS by providing a creative space which enables and empowers women to express themselves by scribing their success stories, poems and spoken word that one day could become another woman’s survival guide.
Genre: Romance, Women
Synopsis: An intelligent, passionate, compelling romance set between England and Jamaica, imbued with picturesque Caribbean sun, sand, and sea descriptions. 'I dream you last night.' Mother Cynthy's smile, like her eyes, courted mischief. 'Dream you were swimming with fishes. This can mean only one thing.'
Author website: www.rashedaashantimalcolmauthor.com
Author note: “Stories touch lives”.
