Writer. OPEN WATER. SMALL WORLDS - OUT 11 MAY 2023 . Pre-order now. @VikingbooksUK. Photographer. Instagram @caleb_anelson Representation @serenadams
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Excited to announce OPEN WATER is coming to BBC One!! 🎬🙏🏾
It’s been a real labour of love. So much work and so much more to come but I’m beyond excited to bring this show to you all. BIG love to all the teams supporting me on this 🙏🏾
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So pleased to say Open Water has won the Costa First Novel Prize! Beyond grateful and feeling truly blessed by all this book has done 💙🙏🏾
Massive congrats to all shortlisted writers and every category winner 💙🏆
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Delighted to reveal the cover for my new novel, SMALL WORLDS 🙏🏾a novel set in London and Ghana, across three summers, about the worlds we build for ourselves to live, dance and love within 💙 Available for pre-order now:
linktr.ee/SmallWorldsCAN
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Two years since OPEN WATER made its way out into the world. Humbled and beyond grateful for everyone who has made this journey so special 💙
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OPEN WATER has sold 100,000 copies!!! 😭🥳Thank you to my team and friend and fam and my partner for all their support, to booksellers for championing this work and to every reader who has picked up a copy! Overwhelmed with gratitude 💙
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Final manuscript handed in - my new novel, SMALL WORLDS will be out May 2023 💙A novel about first love, family and community, & building the world anew to house our beauty and freedom. And of course, music/set in SE London 💙 - Pre-order now: linktr.ee/CalebAzumahNelson
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Open Water is no 1 in today’s Times chart for paperback fiction 😭💙gratitude, always, that this book has found readers 🙏🏾
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Incredibly excited to announce SMALL WORLDS is being adapted for TV with @WeAreBrockMedia 💙(and I’ll be writing the scripts! ✍🏾)
It’s been a joy to be working with @S_Brocklehurst and the team at @WeAreBrockMedia to bring SMALL WORLDS to the screen!
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SMALL WOLRDS is out today!🌎I’m grateful to everyone who has read and will read this novel. I really poured my whole heart into this; this book is for my loves and all the things and people I love and all the beauty I see and feel in this world. Available to buy now! 🌎
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Open Water has been shortlisted for @Waterstones book of the year! 🙏🏾 Truly grateful for all the support from readers and booksellers 💙
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Open Water is no 1 for a third week in a row in today’s Times chart for paperback fiction 💙in disbelief. Bless you all 💙
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Proofs for SMALL WORLDS are here! Very excited to see this book making its way out into the world - looks and feels so good! 💙thank you to the wonderful team at @vikingbooksuk (especially @alexiathom) for such a beautiful proof!
Pre-order now: tr.ee/V7l9pirIts
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Last night was so special 💙so so grateful for the love for Open Water, this one means the world! 🙏🏾
And our Book of the Year - Fiction: Debut (supported by @stylistmagazine) goes to... OPEN WATER by @calebanelson, praised for its stunning honesty, and @VikingBooksUK's dedication to the book - congratulations, Caleb! #BritishBookawards #Nibbies ✒️📚🏆
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Open Water is no 1 for a second week in a row in today’s Times chart for paperback fiction 😭💙madness! So grateful 💙
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The paperback of OPEN WATER has arrived and they look (and feel) wonderful!!! Out Feb 3rd, hit the link in my bio to pre-order 💙
Will be having celebrations and events for the launch - more soon! 👀
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Excited to reveal the cover for my debut novel, OPEN WATER, out next year with @vikingbooksuk. Special thanks to @waterstones for the reveal. I’m incredibly grateful for all the support so far. Pre-order link in the bio!
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It’s publication day!!! 🎉🎉OPEN WATER is out TODAY!!!
Beyond grateful to my team @VikingBooksUK and @serenadams 💙and thank you to everyone who has supported so far 💙
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Writing another novel! SMALL WORLDS will be out May 2023 and is available for pre-order now 🥳🥳: linktr.ee/CalebAzumahNelson
So grateful to all the support so far 💙thank you as always to Isabel Wall, @serenadams and @katie_raissian, friends fam and partner for all the support 💙
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So pleased OPEN WATER is one of @waterstones best paperbacks of 2022 💙 grateful for all the support this novel has and continues to receive 🙏🏾
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Finished copies of SMALL WORLDS are here 🥹💙here’s me unboxing shortly before the tears 😭beyond grateful to be putting this novel out into the world, not long now!!
Pre-order now: linktr.ee/SmallWorldsCAN
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SMALL WORLDS is an instant Sunday Times Bestseller!! 😭💙so grateful to everyone who has supported so far, readers and booksellers - thank you 💙thank you to my wonderful team who helped make this happen 🌎
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Pleased to say OPEN WATER has been longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize 2021! 🎉🙏🏾Big congrats to all the longlisted writers!
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Excited to say Open Water has been shortlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award! 🙏🏾
Big congrats to Megan Nolan, @AnnaBeecher, @rachelnalong and @calflyn - an honour to be shortlisted with you all.
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So pleased to say Open Water is @Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month! Incredibly grateful for the support 💙
Get a paperback edition (out Thursday!!) from them here: bit.ly/3gc16GE
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I’m thrilled to share the trailer for Small Worlds, my new novel, out May 11th 💙
Available to pre-order now: bit.ly/SmallWorldsWTS
Director @CalebANelson DOP @korsshan Producer @celestekdoig
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Had the best time at @costabookawards last night. It’s an honour to have won the First Novel Award and so glad Mum got to see me collect it 💙HUGE congrats to @hannahlowepoet for winning book of the year and a shout out to the other category winners @ClaireFuller2 @ManjeetMann
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So pleased Open Water has made the shortlist for @dylanthomprize 2022!! Gratitude, always and congrats to the other brilliant shortlisted writers 💙
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Thank you to @guardian for the interview - got to chat about Open Water and its journey 💙 in print in today's @GdnSaturday too!
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SMALL WORLDS is a Sunday Times Bestseller for the 2nd week in a row (coming in at #8!) 🥳🌎thank you thank you to everyone who continues to support, I’m so grateful 💙
SMALL WORLDS available now 🌎🌎
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The launch for SMALL WORLDS last night was everything 💙so grateful to everyone who made this happen and celebrated with me!
SMALL WORLDS is out next Thurs!! May 11th 💙pre-order now: linktr.ee/smallworldscan
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Paperback publication day is here for OPEN WATER 🥳🥳🥳
Thank you to my team at @VikingBooksUK, my editors Isabel Wall & @katie_raissian , my agent @serenadams and my friends/fam and my wonderful partner 💙
Pick up a copy here: linktr.ee/OpenWaterBook
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So pleased and grateful to be on the shortlist for @CostaBookAwards First Novel Award, along with @akblakemore @EmilyItami @KateSawyer and their excellent books! 💫💙
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I’m so grateful to @nationalbook and @britrbennett for naming me as one of the 5 Under 35 honourees for fiction this year, really means the world. Big congrats to all honourees! 🥳
Announcing the 2021 5 Under 35 honorees! We are proud to honor these five debut fiction writers whose work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape.
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Proofs for OPEN WATER are here and they look beautiful!!! Feels so good to finally hold one! Even more excited for the book to make it’s way into the world. Thank you @alexiathom @Jane54321 @vikingbooksuk @PenguinUKBooks. Hit the pre-order link in my bio!
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So pleased to share the trailer for PRAY, my first short film, a tender portrait of grief and brotherhood in all its forms.
Written and directed by @caleb_anelson
Starring @davidjonsson__ and @lamarwaves
Produced by @bside_mp
Coming soon 🙏🏾
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Grateful to be longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize - in some incredible company 🙏🏾🎉
We're thrilled to announce the longlist for the #GordonBurnPrize 2021! 🎉
Featuring brilliant work by @CalebANelson @courttianewland @NifMuhammad @Jenni_Fagan @Okwonga @salenagodden @byers90 Anthony Quinn, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Gwendoline Riley, Niven Govinden & Tabitha Lasley
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US publication day for OPEN WATER 💙🇺🇸thank you to @katie_raissian for believing in this novel from the jump and to the team @groveatlantic 💙and as always to @serenadams and @VikingBooksUK team, my friends/fam and partner, for the support. Order now!
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An absolute joy to be shortlisted for @TheOrwellPrize for Political Fiction! Best pub day present! Congrats to all!
The eight novels nominated for The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2023 encompass the political life of people in society on many levels, from many angles, as their authors confront the deepest fears and hopes that drive individuals and communities today. Congratulations all!
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Publication week! Thank you to everyone who has brought SMALL WORLDS and come along to the first week of events. It couldn’t be done without all your support! SMALL WORLDS available to buy now! 💙🌎
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So pleased Open Water has been shortlised for Fiction Debut of the Year #BritishBookAwards!!
Huge congratulations to all shortlistees: Natasha Brown, @bellamackie, @RavenLeilani, @salenagodden, @shelleypchan - an honour 💙
Congratulations to our Book of the Year Fiction: Debut shortlistees, Natasha Brown, @bellamackie, @RavenLeilani, @salenagodden, @CalebANelson and @shelleypchan!
#BritishBookAwards #Nibbies
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Excited to announce BEACON, a gallery exhibition and limited edition Photobook. BEACON serves as a visual accompaniment to SMALL WORLDS 🌎
Exhibition runs 27th-31st May at AMP Gallery, Peckham. The accompanying Photobook will be available to pre-order this Sunday 💙🌎
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Incredibly grateful to @lachristensen for this @nytimes profile. Photography by @AdamaJalloh_
OPEN WATER is out next week (April 13th) in US with @groveatlantic - pre-order now!
nytimes.com/2021/04/07/books…
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Open Water has been out for a week and the support has been WILD 💙thank you all! Hit the link in my bio to order 💙
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OPEN WATER is out a week today and it’s got me feeling giddy!! I’m so grateful for all the love and support ❤️hit the link to pre-order if you can,
it makes big difference!
linktr.ee/CalebAzumahNelson
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Bookshop proof drops this week for SMALL WORLDS 💫💙
Pre-order now! linktr.ee/SmallWorldsCAN
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Thank you to @itvlondon news for having me last night to talk about Open Water 💙🙏🏾this week has been a real blessing!
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Excited to announce BEACON, a gallery exhibition and limited edition Photobook. BEACON serves as a visual accompaniment to SMALL WORLDS🌎 The exhibition is running from 27th-31st May at AMP Gallery in Peckham. Excited to see you all! Link in bio to pre-order BEACON Photobook 💙
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2 days until SMALL WORLDS! 🌎
Last week I had the pleasure of signing copies with @goldsborobooks @roundtablebooks @bookbaruk @kirkdalebookshop. SMALL WORLDS will be available to buy at your local bookshop on May 11th! Pre-order link in my bio 💙
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An absolute joy to be on the cover of @ObsNewReview ✨had a wonderful time talking about SMALL WORLDS and my writing/photography practice (the piece features some of my photography too!) in print and online today!
SMALL WORLDS out May 11th - pre-order now! (Link in bio 💙)
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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of talking to @sofiaakel about all things SMALL WORLDS. Thank you @piccadillywaterstones for hosting a great evening! A big thank you also to @waterstoneswestfield for a lovely signing this afternoon. SMALL WORLDS available to buy now! 💙🌎
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Excited to announce the events for the SMALL WORLDS tour 💙link in bio to book tickets - would love to see some of you on the road ✨
SMALL WORLDS out 11th May in UK - pre-order from link in my bio now! 💙
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SMALL WORLDS is out in the US today!!!🌎💙 So grateful to the team at @groveatlantic and my wonderful editor @katie_raissian for bringing this novel out stateside!🙏🏾
Order the US edition here: tr.ee/VE0UCmA5-o
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Excited to reveal the official OPEN WATER playlist on @SpotifyUK!! Includes every song featured in the book, and a few more I was listening to at the time!
Link here: linktr.ee/CalebAzumahNelson
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I’m delighted to have been selected by @keimiller as one of ten unmissable emerging writers working in the UK today as part of #LitShowcase! The ILS is run by @WritersCentre in partnership with @LitBritish. #acesupported buff.ly/3xmKMJB
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Exhibition Day 2! Another wonderful day showcasing my time in Ghana. Thank you for all those that came and we will be open again tomorrow! Beacon Photo-books and Small Worlds available to buy online and in store now 🌎💙
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So pleased to be one of one of best debuts this year. Surreal but feeling very grateful. Open Water out in a few days!!
Introducing our 10 best debut novelists of 2021 @CalebANelson Sam Riviere @mmegannolan Natasha Brown @abigailsdean Will Burns @rebeccawhatsun @ThoroughlyThorp Ailsa McFarlane Melody Razak theguardian.com/books/2021/j…
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Publication eve for Open Water in the US! Excited for the book to find a home stateside! Pre-order now!! @groveatlantic 💙
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Got to film a piece for Open Water as part of the @CostaBookAwards 💙thank you to @bookbar for having us!!
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Gratitude, always, to be longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards💙Open Water in great company!
The Diverse Book Awards 2022 Longlist - Adult
See the full longlist (Link in bio)
Congratulations to everyone! Please do support these fantastic books.
#TheDBAwards
#diversebooks
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Open Water is still Indie Book of the Month! A few bookstores I know have stock ❤️
@KirkdaleBooks @reviewbookshop @Lighthousebks @pagesofhackney @LRBbookshop @7OaksBookshop @BurleyFisher @ToppingsEdin @NewhamBookshop @HerneHillBooks @DulwichBooks @villagebooksdul @BooksMaldon
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Spoke to @GuardianBooks about romantic moments in literature 💙
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Really excited to say my debut novel, OPEN WATER, out next year with @VikingBooksUK is available to pre-order! It’s been a surreal journey but it’s a real joy to know this book is making its way into the world. Link in bio. penguin.co.uk/books/317654/o…
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Open Water out in two days! Here’s a few indies I know you can order from:
@KirkdaleBooks @reviewbookshop @Lighthousebks @pagesofhackney @LRBbookshop @7OaksBookshop @BurleyFisher @ToppingsEdin @NewhamBookshop @HerneHillBooks @DulwichBooks @villagebooksdul
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So excited that proofs have landed for @CalebANelson’s debut novel Open Water. This incredible, beautifully written and truly important novel is not to be missed. ✨✨✨
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Thank you to @MichaelDonkor for this brilliantly considered reading of OPEN WATER 💙read on @GuardianBooks now!
theguardian.com/books/2021/f…
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My essay, By the Water, airs on today @BBCRadio4 at 1.45 as part of their Outsiders series 💙tap in!!
Thank you to @MairBosworth @elizalomas
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Got to write something for Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s spectacular show at @Tate. Honoured and grateful to have done so.
#REVIEW: Novelist Caleb Azumah Nelson on Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s exhibition at Tate, whose scenes offer a personal and familiar lens through which to view the world.
@Tate @CalebANelson @VikingBooksUK @groveatlantic
Read here: ow.ly/Vi5L50D8rOw
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Grateful and proud to have two images shortlisted for @1854_PoH 2022. Thank you to the judges and @bjp1854 and congrats to all the other shortlisted/winners! 💙🙏🏾
#portraitofhumanity
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Will be at @hayfestival later this year with Small Worlds (little preview below!)
Tickets on sale now: hayfestival.org/wales
Sunday reading 📕
Author @CalebANelson previews Small Worlds, out this May with @VikingBooksUK and coming soon to Hay Festival 2023.
Book now hayfestival.org/wales
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Thank you to @bbctwo Inside Culture and @wmarybeard for having me on to talk tears, art and Kendrick Lamar (alongside @cariadlloyd & @ProfThomasDixon )! Available now on BBC iPlayer - bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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Open Water is out and in the world! 💙Hit up your local indie for copies:
@KirkdaleBooks @reviewbookshop @Lighthousebks @pagesofhackney @LRBbookshop @7OaksBookshop @BurleyFisher @ToppingsEdin @NewhamBookshop @HerneHillBooks @DulwichBooks @villagebooksdul
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Pleased to announce the launch event of OPEN WATER! I’ll be in conversation with the wonderful @YomiSode, discussing my debut novel and I cannot wait!! Just over a week to go now! Hit the link in my bio for tickets!
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New short story in @RA_Mag, inspired by Roy DeCarava’s image of Bessie Smith. Grateful to be in conversation with his work 💙
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Open Water is out TOMORROW!! @Waterstones has a special hand signed edition you can order from the link below 💙
'You're like a pair of jazz musicians, forever improvising.'
Love and race come together in @CalebANelson's tender and emotionally complex debut about two Black British artists falling in and out of love. We have signed copies available to pre-order here: waterstones.com/book/open-wa…
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So pleased to be on this longlist, in some exceptional company, especially @dantielwmoniz @blgtylr @ticecin 💙🥳
📚THE 2022 LONGLIST📚
We are thrilled to unveil the 12 titles that make up this year's @SwanseaUni Dylan Thomas Prize longlist.
What a depth of incredible talent! #SUDTP22
PRESS RELEASE - swan.ac/Longlist22
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Tomorrow (Fri 24th)! Will be talking practice/leading a writing workshop with HOME by Ronan McKenzie and @V_and_A - will be reading some of my new novel, SMALL WORLDS too 💙free and open to all!
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Just over 3 weeks until OPEN WATER comes out! Hit the link in my bio to pre-order ❤️
Incredibly excited for @CalebANelson’s beautiful novel Open Water to publish next month! Just look at those endorsements 😍💫
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One week until the paperback of OPEN WATER comes out!!! Thought I’d share the (slightly updated) trailer I shot for the book, featuring @MartinsImhangbe and @adwoaakoto_ 💙 produced by @justinmarosa
Hit the link to pre-order: linktr.ee/CalebAzumahNelson
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New limited edition proof of Open Water, with a beautiful black jacket! Less than two months to publication and I’m overwhelmed and grateful with all the support so far ❤️pre-order link in my bio!
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SMALL WORLDS out in Italian today 🌎✨
Da oggi in tutte le librerie e store online per #BluAtlantide:
🌈 "Ogni cosa è bellissima, e io non ho paura" di Yao Xiao, tradotto da Flavia Piccinni: bit.ly/3NeCGNH
🎧 "Piccoli mondi" di @CalebANelson , tradotto da Anna Mioni: bit.ly/3p3f85i
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Listen to me speak about SMALL WORLDS on this weeks’s @Waterstones podcast 💙
Join us on this week's #WaterstonesPodcast as we chat with one of our most exciting new voices, @CalebANelson, about new novel, Small Worlds; love, memory and the creative urge.
🍏 bit.ly/3MdRX0J
💻 bit.ly/CalebAN
🎧 bit.ly/3VSOGqQ
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I have an essay in the new issue of The White Review, alongside some fantastic work, including an essay by @victoriaadukwei and a short story by @blgtylr. Available for pre-order now!
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Will be on @BBCRadio4 Open Book at 4pm today, talking all things Open Water with @johnypitts! Also got to speak to @simartin and Nicola Williams about their recently reissued novels. Tap in later!
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Open Water out in Dutch today 💙
Vandaag verschijnt het schrijnende debuut over liefde, ras en mannelijkheid van Caleb Azumah Nelson: 'Open water,' vertaald door Adiëlle Westercappel. bit.ly/AzumahNelson
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OPEN WATER is the Kindle Deal of the Day! Grab it for 99p today💙🤞🏾
Buy here: amzn.to/3nrRgae
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Thank you to indie booksellers for choosing Open Water as your book of the month ❤️🥳
Fantastic news, as February's @BAbooksellers #indiebookofthemonth has been awarded to @CalebANelson for Open Water, with @MaryAliceEvans' Vi Spy chosen for children's! More here: bit.ly/3oCHMnJ
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The past few days have been very surreal. Check the link below for my Radio 4 interview/my short story, ‘Pray’, read excellently by Ben Bailey Smith!
If you missed the first of the 2020 #BBCNSSA shortlisted stories and interviews with @CalebANelson, don't worry - we have neatly wrapped up the audio read by Ben Bailey Smith with Caleb's @BBCFrontRow interview for you to enjoy at bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08rfr… or your @BBCSounds app.
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