Farhana Shaikh, S2, E4

My guest today is Farhana Shaikh, founder of The Asian Writer and Dahlia Books. She is also the author of No Place for a Young Woman, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize Discoveries 2023. She started Dahlia Books (https://www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/) from her kitchen table and is also a lecturer in Marketing at DeMontfort University. Dahlia Books are doing a physical launch of their recent poetry collection Bring Me Gold: Fifty Poem for Palestine (https://www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/poems-for-palestine) on 20th September 2025 in Leicester.