# Noviolet Bulawayo

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Vaseem Khan and Lucy Winkett

What does 'home' mean? The three book choices today reflect on what home means to different people. The crime writer Vaseem Khan chooses Deborah Moggach's much loved novel The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel that sees a group of elderly English people going to live in a retirement home in India. As we…

The Business of Publishing, Part One: Submitting Stories

Ursa Members, thank you for supporting our show! On this special Member Exclusive episode of Ursa Short Fiction, Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton offer a comprehensive guide to the business of publishing – from submitting short stories to literary magazines, to navigating rejection, and finding an …

Ep38||The Aesthetic of Suffering: “Romanticizing Broke”

“Take a picture of me wearing this rugged jeans and a torn shirt, cause I look cute, almost like a homeless person!” In this episode, I reflect on “Hitting Budapest” by Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo, a raw and brilliant short story that follows children from a slum called Paradise as they wan…

How Specificity Brings a Story to Life, Answering Your Questions, and a Bookseller Gives You Comps

In today's BONUS EPISODE, Bianca first chats with Rosie Walsh, bestselling author of The Love of My Life, about when a story forces a plotter to become a pantser; figuring out how to work in backstory after the midpoint twist; pulling a manuscript apart and putting it back together multiple times; …

Book Review - We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

Send us Fan Mail Season finale. We end with We Need New Names — a powerful reflection on identity, displacement, and the realities young people face when navigating different worlds. It’s a reminder of why storytelling matters — whose stories are told, and whose are often left out.

Vaseem Khan and Lucy Winkett

What does 'home' mean? The three book choices today reflect on what home means to different people. The crime writer Vaseem Khan chooses Deborah Moggach's much loved novel The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel that sees a group of elderly English people going to live in a retirement home in India. As we…

How Specificity Brings a Story to Life, Answering Your Questions, and a Bookseller Gives You Comps

In today's BONUS EPISODE, Bianca first chats with Rosie Walsh, bestselling author of The Love of My Life, about when a story forces a plotter to become a pantser; figuring out how to work in backstory after the midpoint twist; pulling a manuscript apart and putting it back together multiple times; …