Rasheda Ashanti Malcolm

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

My Tribe ❤️💚💛 sunshine in my life ☀️

Three of my grandchildren, all dressed for World Book Day book 📕 📖 📕

They wish they could read my novels 😂 I love the fact that they love books so much - I pray they take this love into adulthood.

#worldbookday #reading #proudgrandma #girls #booklovers #booksbooksbooks

A good life . . .

It was a great Wednesday evening, sitting with fellow authors, @iamlisabent @sareetadomingoauthor and book reviewer @bukolayemi 😊 who chaired the discussion on love stories, romance, writing and editing

Thanks to fellow authors who attended @annidom4 @yvonnebrissett @pamwilliamsauthor - budding and emerging writers, my student & writing tribe @kari_that_thought & Eleta Barrette, was lovely seeing your faces in the audience.

Big up my beautiful Cuzzie Junior who showed up all the way from Northampton & my talented Cuzzie @mslondonmusicreviews ❤️💛💚

Big thanks to @jacarandabooks for hosting the event ❤️

#authors #writers #writerslife #bookfair #readers #booklovers #romancenovels #lovestories

@chimamanda_adichie at the Southbank in London.

A great evening listening to one of my favourite authors. ❤️

I love her energy & her warrior stance on women’s and girls development.

Her voice of reason about women writers and getting a dose of her sense of humour 😂

It was the anniversary of her mother’s passing and it was also her father’s birthday.

Her readership took over the Southbank, lining up for hours to get our books signed. She showed great patience and always with a glorious smile.

In these times, I would’ve liked to see a different author conducting the interview.

#writers #authors #writerslife #poets #chimamandangoziadichie #books #eveningout #southbank

The Original Macbeth Writing Tribe ✍🏽✍🏼✍️✍🏻✍🏻✍🏽 My Tribe 💛

I love teaching this tribe in our weekly sessions . . . I learn so much from them . . . the lives they live . . . the energy they share . . . the camaraderie between them. The laughter that fills the room each week.

In this session they started with the prompt, ‘I Remember . . . ‘ they wrote for 3 minutes, and then I had them swap papers and finish each others ‘I Remember’

Their creativity flowed, they stepped up to the page with authority, and did justice to their writing-tribes creations.

They’re a BIG deal to me.

#mytribe #emergingwriters #writingtribe #writers #writerslife #iremember #writing #proudteacher

Big congrats to @lola.jaye 👏🏽 🥳 🥂🥳 on giving birth to another book-baby 📕

It was a great evening, as any book launch is - filled with good-wishers, meeting new creatives, and authors who I bumped into; my fellow #2020author @iamlisabent and @jprosewriter @olaawonubi @carolrussell2 @thevirtualsundaybookclub

And by the way, those cute little boxes of cakes were divine ❤️

Congrats 🥂 once more @lola.jaye - we got a lunch date to attend to 😊 😃

#booklaunch #authors #writers #writerslife #readers #congratulations

What do you do with your grandchildren during half term holidays?

Teach dem some Jamaican folk songs 😃their British accents when singing this cracks me up 🤣😂🤣 I love them beyond the moon and back🌒 ❤️🥰

#jamaican #jamaicans #jamaicanmusic #jamaicangrandmothers #jamaicajamaica #jamaicalove #jamaicalandwelove #jamaicanice #jamaicanfolksongs