The In Conversation section of Tint Journal is a place where discussions about writing in English as a second language, and about ESL books and their authors take place. Here, writers, readers, and book lovers come together to share ideas, discover new favorite books, and read up on up-and-coming authors.
The section is divided into reviews, where our contributing writers introduce new ESL books and old classics of this category; interviews, where ESL authors share their insights into craft, their love for language, and their future projects; and profiles, where we invite you to discover valuable individuals in the world of ESL writing.
If you would like to contribute your own article to In Conversation, please review our submission guidelines and contact our section editors.
But first: Grab a cup of tea and get ready to discover your next favorite ESL book!
Interview
October 9th, 2023
by Ibrahim Fawzy
Sudanese author Reem Gaafar won the 2023 Island Prize for her debut novel A Mouth Full of Salt (to be released 2024), becoming the first Sudanese ...read the full piece >>Review
September 25th, 2023
by Namita Suberi
Death and grief inspire many. These feelings then find footing on the page. We know many a poet who turn to poetry to cope with death and everything ...read the full piece >>Interview
September 11th, 2023
by Sam Dapanas
Hideko Sueoka is the author of Untouched Landscape (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, 2018) and translator of Shigeichi Nagano: Magazine Work 60s ...read the full piece >>Review
August 28th, 2023
by Qing Xu
Food is always absent, or at best making occasional appearances in a stealthy and unobtrusive manner, in the history of literature. Virginia Woolf has ...read the full piece >>Review
August 14th, 2023
by Joyce Bou Charaa
Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, a mountaineer and a humanitarian, is the first Peruvian woman — and one of few women overall — to complete the Seven Summits, ...read the full piece >>Interview
July 31st, 2023
by Tim Tim Cheng
I knew Mohamed Tonsy's novel would be important to me the moment I read its title: You Must Believe in Spring . Spring, as in a transitional season, ...read the full piece >>Interview
July 17th, 2023
by Wambui Waldhauser
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber is a Kenyan writer and the author of The House of Rust which won the inaugural Graywolf Press Africa Prize and The Ursula K. ...read the full piece >>Review
July 3rd, 2023
by Viviana De Cecco
Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) is a complex book, exploring themes such as freedom and oppression, love and loneliness, religion, racism, legal and ...read the full piece >>Interview
June 19th, 2023
by Sam Dapanas
Masande Ngcali Ntshanga is a South African novelist, fictionist, poet, editor, and publisher. He has authored two novels— The Reactive (Cape Town: ...read the full piece >>Review
June 5th, 2023
by Hantian Zhang
In my imagination, India has always been a place of contradictions: democracy and caste, wealth and poverty, Santiniketan and Bhopal. Such myriad ...read the full piece >>Supported by:
