Katie O 🌊
@katieogunsakin.bsky.social
award-winning editorial director | shaker of tables & a good time girl | insta & tiktok @katieogunsakin
PRIZE OPPORTUNITY!
Please enter by this Monday 16th June to be considered for our brilliant prize! No matter how developed your work is, we want to see it 🧡 All entry guidelines in the link below.
www.thefuturebookshelf.co.uk/landing-page...
@historianmemory.bsky.social @paulaakpan.bsky.social
Please enter by this Monday 16th June to be considered for our brilliant prize! No matter how developed your work is, we want to see it 🧡 All entry guidelines in the link below.
www.thefuturebookshelf.co.uk/landing-page...
@historianmemory.bsky.social @paulaakpan.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
PRIZE OPPORTUNITY!
Please enter by this Monday 16th June to be considered for our brilliant prize! No matter how developed your work is, we want to see it 🧡 All entry guidelines in the link below.
www.thefuturebookshelf.co.uk/landing-page...
@historianmemory.bsky.social @paulaakpan.bsky.social
Please enter by this Monday 16th June to be considered for our brilliant prize! No matter how developed your work is, we want to see it 🧡 All entry guidelines in the link below.
www.thefuturebookshelf.co.uk/landing-page...
@historianmemory.bsky.social @paulaakpan.bsky.social
another free workshop for aspiring writers and authors! Learn how to pitch and edit a non-fiction book with a commissioning editor and editorial director 📚
It's completely free so what is there to lose! join us on Monday 9th June at 6pm 🥰
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mo-sie...
It's completely free so what is there to lose! join us on Monday 9th June at 6pm 🥰
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mo-sie...
The Mo Siewcharran Prize: How to Pitch and Edit Non-Fiction
A panel discussion and Q+A with input from Editorial Director Katie Ogunsakin and Commissioning Editor Nina Sandelson
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May 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
another free workshop for aspiring writers and authors! Learn how to pitch and edit a non-fiction book with a commissioning editor and editorial director 📚
It's completely free so what is there to lose! join us on Monday 9th June at 6pm 🥰
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mo-sie...
It's completely free so what is there to lose! join us on Monday 9th June at 6pm 🥰
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mo-sie...
a free workshop for aspiring authors! focused on non-fiction and authors from marginalised backgrounds, this is open to all and there will be plenty to learn no matter what you are writing 📚✍️ hosted by an editor, a literary agent and a publicist!
sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mo-sie...
sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mo-sie...
The Mo Siewcharran Prize: The Publishing Process Explained
A panel discussion & Q+A with input from Editorial Director Katie Ogunsakin, Publicity Manager Harry Taylor, and literary agent Emma Bal.
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May 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
a free workshop for aspiring authors! focused on non-fiction and authors from marginalised backgrounds, this is open to all and there will be plenty to learn no matter what you are writing 📚✍️ hosted by an editor, a literary agent and a publicist!
sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mo-sie...
sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mo-sie...
I am so so proud to publish this brilliant book today - a game-changing and revelatory treasure that will make your brain 10000x bigger! 📚🥰 @paulaakpan.bsky.social
if you want a reading experience that will expand your mind, this is the book to buy: geni.us/WhenWeRuled/
if you want a reading experience that will expand your mind, this is the book to buy: geni.us/WhenWeRuled/
May 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I am so so proud to publish this brilliant book today - a game-changing and revelatory treasure that will make your brain 10000x bigger! 📚🥰 @paulaakpan.bsky.social
if you want a reading experience that will expand your mind, this is the book to buy: geni.us/WhenWeRuled/
if you want a reading experience that will expand your mind, this is the book to buy: geni.us/WhenWeRuled/
Are you a writer from the global majority? Do you write non-fiction? Do you want to be published? If your answer is yes to any of these, then you can't miss this FREE virtual workshop happening this Wednesday at 6pm, hosted by myself and @paulaakpan.bsky.social 📚
#Writingcommunity #writingtips
#Writingcommunity #writingtips
The Mo Siewcharran Prize: How to Write a Non-Fiction Book Proposal + Q&A
An online workshop discussing how to write a non-fiction book proposal, and what this year's judges are looking for. Feat. Paula Akpan.
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April 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Are you a writer from the global majority? Do you write non-fiction? Do you want to be published? If your answer is yes to any of these, then you can't miss this FREE virtual workshop happening this Wednesday at 6pm, hosted by myself and @paulaakpan.bsky.social 📚
#Writingcommunity #writingtips
#Writingcommunity #writingtips
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THE MO SIEWCHARRAN PRIZE 2025
An opportunity for young writers. That's why I agreed to be one of the Judges this year. Attending the zoom meeting on 30 April will help many.
An opportunity for young writers. That's why I agreed to be one of the Judges this year. Attending the zoom meeting on 30 April will help many.
April 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
THE MO SIEWCHARRAN PRIZE 2025
An opportunity for young writers. That's why I agreed to be one of the Judges this year. Attending the zoom meeting on 30 April will help many.
An opportunity for young writers. That's why I agreed to be one of the Judges this year. Attending the zoom meeting on 30 April will help many.
FREE workshop alert!!!
Register now for HOW TO WRITE A NON-FICTION PROPOSAL via this link 📚
Hosted by myself and the amazing @paulaakpan.bsky.social, author of When We Ruled, do join us to learn all about what our judges are looking for!
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mo-sie...
Register now for HOW TO WRITE A NON-FICTION PROPOSAL via this link 📚
Hosted by myself and the amazing @paulaakpan.bsky.social, author of When We Ruled, do join us to learn all about what our judges are looking for!
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mo-sie...
The Mo Siewcharran Prize: How to Write a Non-Fiction Book Proposal + Q&A
An online workshop discussing how to write a non-fiction book proposal, and what this year's judges are looking for. Feat. Paula Akpan.
www.eventbrite.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
FREE workshop alert!!!
Register now for HOW TO WRITE A NON-FICTION PROPOSAL via this link 📚
Hosted by myself and the amazing @paulaakpan.bsky.social, author of When We Ruled, do join us to learn all about what our judges are looking for!
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mo-sie...
Register now for HOW TO WRITE A NON-FICTION PROPOSAL via this link 📚
Hosted by myself and the amazing @paulaakpan.bsky.social, author of When We Ruled, do join us to learn all about what our judges are looking for!
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mo-sie...
Reposted by Katie O 🌊
Really pleased to be a judge for the Mo Siewcharran Non-Fiction Prize 2025!
Think your topic is too niche? No such thing. As long as you are unpublished, over 18 and a UK resident, Black or Brown, and writing non-fiction that speaks to our theme of ‘reclaiming history’, we want to hear from you!
Think your topic is too niche? No such thing. As long as you are unpublished, over 18 and a UK resident, Black or Brown, and writing non-fiction that speaks to our theme of ‘reclaiming history’, we want to hear from you!
March 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Really pleased to be a judge for the Mo Siewcharran Non-Fiction Prize 2025!
Think your topic is too niche? No such thing. As long as you are unpublished, over 18 and a UK resident, Black or Brown, and writing non-fiction that speaks to our theme of ‘reclaiming history’, we want to hear from you!
Think your topic is too niche? No such thing. As long as you are unpublished, over 18 and a UK resident, Black or Brown, and writing non-fiction that speaks to our theme of ‘reclaiming history’, we want to hear from you!
At @orionbooks.bsky.social we're launching the Mo Siewcharran non-fiction prize for unpublished global majority writers who are writing about history, ancestry and culture 📚
An incredible opportunity to win funding or a publishing deal, please submit your work to us!
An incredible opportunity to win funding or a publishing deal, please submit your work to us!
March 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
At @orionbooks.bsky.social we're launching the Mo Siewcharran non-fiction prize for unpublished global majority writers who are writing about history, ancestry and culture 📚
An incredible opportunity to win funding or a publishing deal, please submit your work to us!
An incredible opportunity to win funding or a publishing deal, please submit your work to us!
Wow. Just finished reading my insanely talented friend’s book and I’m in awe. Intimate, claustrophobic, sexy, frustrating, joyous and painfully honest. I feel drunk with the richness of these pages. Out may 2025🍷
December 17, 2024 at 10:13 AM
Wow. Just finished reading my insanely talented friend’s book and I’m in awe. Intimate, claustrophobic, sexy, frustrating, joyous and painfully honest. I feel drunk with the richness of these pages. Out may 2025🍷
Reposted by Katie O 🌊
I only read one book to review for work this year, but it was a really good one - @kwajo.bsky.social’s Our Country in Crisis: Britain’s Housing Emergency and How We Rebuild. You can read what I made of it and our chat about it here www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/kwaj...
Kwajo’s new book: how to fix Britain’s housing crisis
Kwajo Tweneboa is well known as a social media housing activist. With his first book, Our Country in Crisis: Britain’s Housing Emergency and How We Rebuild, out today, he talks to Jess McCabe.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 7:14 PM
I only read one book to review for work this year, but it was a really good one - @kwajo.bsky.social’s Our Country in Crisis: Britain’s Housing Emergency and How We Rebuild. You can read what I made of it and our chat about it here www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/kwaj...
Reposted by Katie O 🌊
Hello! I’m Paula, I’m a historian & my first book will be out next April!
WHEN WE RULED: THE RISE & FALL OF 12 AFRICAN QUEENS & WARRIORS was shaped by my research trip across 10 countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Bénin, Madag., SA, Rwanda +), meeting local historians & storytellers. #blacksky #skystorians
WHEN WE RULED: THE RISE & FALL OF 12 AFRICAN QUEENS & WARRIORS was shaped by my research trip across 10 countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Bénin, Madag., SA, Rwanda +), meeting local historians & storytellers. #blacksky #skystorians
November 15, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Hello! I’m Paula, I’m a historian & my first book will be out next April!
WHEN WE RULED: THE RISE & FALL OF 12 AFRICAN QUEENS & WARRIORS was shaped by my research trip across 10 countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Bénin, Madag., SA, Rwanda +), meeting local historians & storytellers. #blacksky #skystorians
WHEN WE RULED: THE RISE & FALL OF 12 AFRICAN QUEENS & WARRIORS was shaped by my research trip across 10 countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Bénin, Madag., SA, Rwanda +), meeting local historians & storytellers. #blacksky #skystorians
in LOVE with this cover for When We Ruled: the rise and fall of twelve African queens and warriors 💙
publishing next year!
@paulaakpan.bsky.social
publishing next year!
@paulaakpan.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 1:41 PM
in LOVE with this cover for When We Ruled: the rise and fall of twelve African queens and warriors 💙
publishing next year!
@paulaakpan.bsky.social
publishing next year!
@paulaakpan.bsky.social
Reposted by Katie O 🌊
Hey babes, check out the cover to my new novel POSSIBILITY, coming 24th April with Renegade Books. Preorder right here: geni.us/Possibility
December 6, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Hey babes, check out the cover to my new novel POSSIBILITY, coming 24th April with Renegade Books. Preorder right here: geni.us/Possibility
I really need the algorithm on here to figure out what I like because 😭
December 4, 2024 at 10:58 AM
I really need the algorithm on here to figure out what I like because 😭
“you can’t be everyone’s cup of tea or you’d be a mug” is so brilliant it feels Shakespearean, mind you it was Tulisa who said it
November 21, 2024 at 11:44 AM
“you can’t be everyone’s cup of tea or you’d be a mug” is so brilliant it feels Shakespearean, mind you it was Tulisa who said it
Reposted by Katie O 🌊
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
#blackbooksky
Day One
Honey & Spice by @beebabs.bsky.social
This book is life altering 🤎
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
#blackbooksky
Day One
Honey & Spice by @beebabs.bsky.social
This book is life altering 🤎
November 16, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
#blackbooksky
Day One
Honey & Spice by @beebabs.bsky.social
This book is life altering 🤎
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
#blackbooksky
Day One
Honey & Spice by @beebabs.bsky.social
This book is life altering 🤎
if this app becomes the next LinkedIn you’re never seeing me again
November 17, 2024 at 9:20 AM
if this app becomes the next LinkedIn you’re never seeing me again