Anita Roy
writer | editor
I am a writer, editor, publisher, storyteller and performer.
Being a bit of a mongrel, a mudblood, a half-and-half, mixed race, betwixt-and-between sort of gal has shaped my outlook, my humour and my writing as much as my skin colour.
On this site you can find over 100 of my published articles – and links to the some of the books that I've either edited or contributed to. Hope you enjoy reading them; let me know what you think.Recently published
- On the Shelf #50 – Ali Smith
18 June 2018We need books, like Ali Smith’s How to be Both, to remind us to stop talking into our hands, to remove little blocks from our ears, and look up from screens … [more]
On the Shelf #49 – Public Libraries
21 May 2018Ali Smith’s sparkling anthology is a spirited advocacy for public libraries: an institution that is underfunded, underused and under threat.… [more]
A Year in Kingcombe – April
23 April 2018It was as if the rain would never end. The Hooke valley seemed to be slowly filling with water from… [more]
On the Shelf #48 – Adam Thorpe
23 April 2018"The nudge of ghosts" in Adam Thorpe's Ulverton - stranger than fiction. … [more]
On the Shelf #47 – Jules Evans
24 March 2018Tune out, turn off, drop in. Jules Evans in search of ecstasy. … [more]
Featured articles
Lancelot Ribeiro
3 January 2017Far more than F.N. Souza's younger brother, Lancelot Ribeiro was an extraordinary painter in his own right. A view of the artist's life and works to coincide with a year-long programme and exhibition of his works, October 2016. … [more]
Funny Things are Everywhere…
7 November 2005“From there to here From here to there Funny things are everywhere.” Never a truer word was spoke. And who… [more]
On the Shelf #21 – Alan Watts
4 October 2015"Do you mind if I communicate with Alan Watts post-verbally?" Some words - about the man and the myth and his books and his voice. … [more]
Homestay is Where the Heart Is
1 April 2011A trip to the remote town of Munsiari in Uttarakhand, high in the Himalayas… [more]
