Finding Your Voice Through Poetry
Finding your voice through poetry: a conversation with JJ Bola and poet Jamal Mehmood, discussing everything from poetry, to identity, to...
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Diverse Stories Important In Current 'Dark Times'
Crystal Mahey-Morgan, founder of OWN IT, discusses the debut novel of No Place to Call Home by JJ Bola with The Bookseller.
Mechanics Institute Review: Interview With JJ Bola
Aisha Phoenix talks to JJ Bola about his new novel No Place to Call Home, and hope, belonging, identity and experience of being a refugee.
Radio France Internationale: Interview With JJ Bola
Young Congolese man trying to deal with life and school in JJ Bola's new novel; Nommo Awards for African Speculative Fiction.
The Politics of Identity and Belonging: A Dialogue With JJ Bola
In a conversation with Gaamangwe of Africa In Dialogue, JJ Bola discusses identity and belonging. This conversation took place in a...
What It's Like To Publish Your First Novel (Short Story)
What It's Like To Publish Your First Novel - a feature short story for Spread The Word's blog, by JJ Bola.
Bristol 24/7: Interview With JJ Bola
JJ Bola talks about his debut novel No Place to Call Home with Bristol 24/7.
Listen Again: JJ Bola Talks About His Debut Novel
Listen back to the interview with JJ Bola for the Novel Writers series at Spike Island.
After Selling Out At Writivism Festival, Is ...No Place to Call Home The Next Literary Sensation?
News is that J.J. Bola’s debut novel, No Place to Call Home: Love, Loss, Belonging, sold out at the 2017 Writivism Festival. It sold out...
Much Of This Is Not New: JJ Bola Interview With Five Dials Magazine
JJ Bola interviews with Five Dials Magazine on the current state of politics (2017) for their "Resist" issue.
#TBB10 Discusses New Book, No Place To Call Home With Its Author JJ Bola
An interview and conversation between JJ Bola and the British Blacklist about his then forthcoming debut novel, No Place to Call Home.
Book Review: No Place to Call Home
No Place to Call Home is a fictional tale a family that flees the political violence of Le Marechal's regime in Congo, attempting to...
Art As Questioning: A Conversation With Poet JJ Bola
Art As Questioning: A Conversation With Poet JJ Bola - click here to read
Poets Speak Out For Refugees
Five young London poets who have written about displacement and identity reflect on the refugee experience
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