The Local Voices Project

A unique project to celebrate underrepresented authors and empower an incredibly powerful underlying diversity, independent publisher Indie Novella has been working with writers in some of the most cultural diverse parts of the UK, to promote diversity in publishing by publishing diverse writers. Indie Novella set out counter a lack of underrepresented voices telling stories of their lives in the UK. Currently publishing has overused stereotypical lazy narratives when it comes to writers of African, Asian and Caribbean heritage. Indie Novella instead asked writers from different communities to tell the stories of their communities - tell the stories that go unheard, about forming diaspora communities, growing up in a multicultural society, finding a place where you feel accepted.