Andrea Mbarushimana
COVENTRY PEOPLE: A series of 15 illustrated booklets (32 pages, A6) each based on the real life of someone living or working in Coventry.
I devised and created the first set of books back when I worked at Coventry Peace House Education Trust. Those focussed on migrants, who were being persecuted at the time.
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May 2025 sees the publication of ten new booklets, this time focussing on people targeted by the political far right, including queer and trans people and people who are neurodiverse or with hidden disabilities. This set was supported by Foleshill Creates and funded by the Community Cohesion and Resilience Fund (Coventry City Council)
Please contact me to download the booklets in pdf form and use them in community and educational settings to promote discussion.
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All I ask is that you don't change the booklets in any way, charge people for them or distribute them without my permission. Please be kind and gracious to the people who agreed to be interviewed. If you have any questions, please get in touch with me through the contact page of this website.
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A massive, massive thank you to everyone involved in these books, particularly the wonderful interviewees who gave us a window into their lives.
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CHATBOT: This epically cute pamphlet of nine poems and seven artworks is now available for pre-order from Hedgehog Press (publication date Feb 2025) BUT signed copies are available directly from me. Just contact me via this site.
The poems were written (by me, not a chatbot) inspired by my residency at Birmingham University SMQB group in 2024.
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Fatbergs is my latest pamphlet, published by Knives, Forks and Spoons Press in April 2021.
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Ruth Stacey writes:
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"There is a visceral, unflinching eye at work in Fatbergs...which ranges far as it examines human relationships in the complex societies and landscapes they inhabit."
In 2019 I won the inaugural V20 Pamphlet Prize, and my pamphlet Air Show was published by Gloucestershire Poetry Society. I performed my winning poems at the Platform 2 event at the Gloucester Poetry Festival.
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In 2017, my first collection containing poetry, short stories and urban legends was published by Silhouette Press.
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The book brings together stories and experiences from living in Rwanda and those I've had since as a white woman married to a Rwandan man, raising our English/Rwandan daughter in the UK.
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Recent Anthologies
Poetry Anthology re-presenting Anne Shakespeare. Published by Broken Sleep Books, 2023.
Guardian Book of the Year, 2023, Daily Telegraph Book of the Year, 2023.
An anthology of short fiction published by Comma Press, 2024 to celebrate my home town. Check out books for other cities such as Havana and New York.
An anthology of short stories for written with young people. Published by the Emma Press for Writing West Midlands, Read On, Coventry City of Culture Trust 2021
Commissioned by the BBC Contains Strong Language Festival 2021, published by Nine Arches Press. Press the photo for a link if you'd like to purchase.