Rasheda Ashanti Malcolm

A GREAT time to be a WRITER!

The second Friday in every month, a few writers from @jackeeholderinspires online Tuesday morning journaling workshop meet face-to-face in Leicester Square to bond, banter & socialise. The conversations: loss, grief, spirituality, life, family, children, writing festivals, interrupted by laughter & shared knowledge of the language within water. If you know, you know 😉

Writing is such a solitary activity, that every opportunity I get to vibe with writers, I grab it with both hands.

The spring 🌞 sunshine was showing off in London today, and as I made my journey to & from Leicester Square, I was met with smiles from strange & friendly faces - you see what a little sun can do 😀

I was in warm, creative & inviting company, with so much in common @bybreensamuels @janebanksiam and more who I didn’t get their insta-handles.

#writers #authors #writerslife #poets #readers #writing #chilaxing #springsunshine #newfriendships #spirituality #water #powerofwater #languageofwater #creator

First interview #romanceauthorsofinstagram

Mother’s Day Event ❤️💛💚

Thank you, @sanctuary4sisterhoodcic for the invite to host a writing workshop at your Mothers Day Event.

What a glorious spring day, in great company, with the spring sunshine sparkling from blue skies in west London.

#mothersday #mothersloveisforever #motherslove #writerslife #writers

It pays to follow your dreams.

The Advanced Macbeth Writing Tribe.

As I approach the finishing line of completing my first non-fiction book, Writing to Exhale, a book filled with advice to budding & emerging writers, I really have my students, my tribe of writers from Macbeth, JustWrite & the Irish Cultural Centre to thank, because they given me materials and many food for thoughts that has inspired my writing journey.

They always step up to the page with any writing prompt I give them, even when I try to make the prompts challenging .

This week I invited them to revisit a past piece of work that resonated with them, which made them proud and bring it into class to share with their tribe . . .

This made me see how far they have progressed and I’m really pushing for an anthology to showcase their achievements. They also enjoyed each other’s works and showed appreciation.

Well done tribe, I’m truly impressed with your achievements.

@moesullivan.ms @tinatalkstooloud @gentlejoan @mud.and.stars - just to name a few.

#writers #emergingwriters #writingtribe #writerslife #ilovewriters

Thanks to the readers that ordered my book-baby ☺️ Swimming With Fishes ✍🏽✍🏽✍🏽

The first book I wrote that got published by #jacarandabooks

Today I popped into my publisher during my lunch break to sign copies that had been ordered from Islington Book Fair event.

Enjoy your love story read folks, you know who you are ❤️

#authors #authorsigning #readers #lovestories #romance

The good life . . .

I teach two classes of emerging writers at the Macbeth Adult Education Centre.

The morning class are on their beginners journey and this week they stepped up to the page with an introduction to writing memoirs.

One of my students bought a copy of my first novel, Swimming With Fishes for me to sign it. It was an honour to take a picture with her.

The advance afternoon class stepped up to the page by tackling ‘Show’ & ‘Tell.’ And they all did a fantastic job with writing about emotions, settings & characters. I couldn’t be a more proud tutor.

#proud #proudteacher #writers #writerslife

The @wilde_foundation hosted Women’s History Month - and had a fantastic, creative, bombastic time with women who knows how to have a great time.

Well done, @tinatalkstooloud @cocomars_06 @moesullivan.ms @gentlejoan @janellevicrty @sharontomlin_nhau @kari_that_thought @iknowwhyshestayed @lazylion698

Big shout out to Angela Harvey, AKA, Poppyseed, Juliyah Brown, the JustWrite & Macbeth Writing Tribe and all in attendance.

It’s a great time to be a WOMAN

It’s a great time to be a WRITER

It’s a great time to show your authentic self.

#womenshistorymonth #womensupportingwomen
#mycreativetribe

@windrushfrontroom @promotingourheritage @streetangelsbooks
@woolwichworks
Author questions, author signing at the Windrush Front Room event.

I met Wolter Dammers, who apparently has lived a life loving two women, like my character, Ben in my novel Swimming With Fishes 😂😂😂

@wolterdammers has so many stories to tell, to share - he was very entertaining.

#writerslifeforme #writers #writerslife #authors #authorsigning #readers

HIGHLIGHT FROM #londonbookfair

What’s missing? Working class authors & writers.

What’s needed? More underrepresented authors, writers, editors, agents & publishers, & my writing tribe.

What was good? Meeting & networking with emerging writers.

Other good things . . . Updates on what’s coming in the publishing industry.

#writers #authors #writerslife #londonbookfair #londonbookfair2025

Sally Hemings An American Scandal

I spent Sunday afternoon at Playground Theatre watching @therealtinaandrews Sally Hemings An American Scandal - about Thomas Jefferson (America’s third President) and his love affair and relationship with Sally Hemings, his slave.

My question . . . Could you really call it a relationship, a love affair between an elderly slave master and his much younger enslaved?

This was followed by a question & answer session, conducted by actress & author @annidom4 in which Tina gave an insight to the background history of writing & producing the 4 part series by CBS, and answering & explaining that very important question.

A must watch series 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

#theatre #sallyhemingsanamericanscandal #enslaved