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#196: Candice Carty-Williams On Writing and Promoting "Queenie"

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Candice Carty-Williams is an author, culture writer and journalist based in London. Her book Queenie came out recently in the UK and US, about a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London called Queenie Jenkins, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. Oprah has called it 'brazenly hilarious" and it's been called The Black Bridget Jones. She writes regularly to i-D, Refinery29, BEAT Magazine, and more, and her pieces, especially those about blackness, sex, and identity have been shared and read globally. Candice created and launched the Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, before moving to Vintage Books. We discuss writing Queenie, the universal topics within it, how to get published and why you should proactively ask for criticism, however hard that might be.

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Hello and welcome back to Control-op Delete with me, Emma Gannon, interviewing

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amazing people who are doing brilliant things. So today's guest is

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Candice Carty Williams. She is an author. She was a bookmarketer. She's a journalist.

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Based in London and her book, Queenie, has just recently come out in the UK and the US and it's absolutely everywhere.

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You might have seen it.

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It has four different, very brightly coloured covers and it's about a 25 year old Jamaican British women living in London called Queenie Jenkins.

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It's all about what it's like straddling two cultures and not really feeling like you fit into either of them.

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Oprah herself has called it

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brazenly hilarious and she writes regularly for ID, Refinery 29, Beat magazine

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and many many more. I really recommend you checking out all of her

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writing and she also created and launched the Guardian and fourth Estate Bame short

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