Courttia Newland

1973–

Courttia Newland is a British novelist, short-story writer and screenwriter, born in West London and raised in Shepherd's Bush. In 2000 he co-edited, with Kadija Sesay, IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, and he later co-wrote the guide Writing Short Stories with Tania Hershman. He was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the London College of Communication and has been writer-in-residence at Trinity College Dublin and Georgetown University. He co-wrote Steve McQueen's anthology series Small Axe, broadcast in 2020. His speculative novel A River Called Time, set in an alternative London untouched by colonialism, was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

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