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JJ Bola's personal blog on writing, dating, relationshships, life, career, random thoughts, reflections, realisations, and more. Also, catch up with old features and interviews, as well as old writing(s) and poems, and random photography.

JJ Bola

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

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 self and growth, fo...

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JJ Bola

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

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.

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JJ Bola

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

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.

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JJ Bola

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

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.

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JJ Bola

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

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 green sweet-spot in the ...

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JJ Bola

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

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.

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JJ Bola

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

Bristol 24/7: Interview With JJ Bola

JJ Bola talks about his debut novel No Place to Call Home with Bristol 24/7.

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JJ Bola

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

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.

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JJ Bola

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

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 in the festival’s fi...

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JJ Bola

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

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.

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JJ Bola

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

#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.

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JJ Bola

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

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 settle in Britain.

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JJ Bola

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

Art As Questioning: A Conversation With Poet JJ Bola

Art As Questioning: A Conversation With Poet JJ Bola - click here to read

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JJ Bola

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

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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