What terrific news! Transatlantic clients Sadiya Ansari and Andrea Currie have been chosen by Publishers Weekly in their roundup of Writers to Watch: 10 Noteworthy Nonfiction Debuts this Fall 2024!
Check out the full feature here: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/95642-writers-to-watch-10-noteworthy-nonfiction-debuts-fall-2024.html
Sadiya Ansari is an award-winning writer and journalist based in Berlin. Her work — including essays, features, Q&As and books reviews — has appeared in the Guardian, Maclean’s, VICE, Refinery29, Toronto Life, Chatelaine, Policy Options, Toronto Star, HuffPost Canada, Globe and Mail, Reader’s Digest and more.
She has worked as a Professor of Journalism at Centennial College, managing editor of features at Global News, staff editor at Chatelaine and has reported for the Toronto Star, produced TV for CBC News, edited opinion for HuffPost Canada, and covered arts for the Canadian Press. Sadiya is a co-founder of the Canadian Journalists of Colour, a national network of BIPOC journalists. She has served as a judge for the Digital Publishing Awards and the Amnesty International Canada Media Awards.
Sadiya was selected as a 2021 R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellow. Her work has also been supported by the International Center for Journalists, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. She holds a Masters of Public Administration from Queen’s University and a Masters of Journalism from the University of British Columbia.
Andrea Currie is a writer, healer, and activist born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently living in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She is a psychotherapist working in Indigenous mental health and has accompanied the We’koqma’q Residential School Survivors on their healing journey for the past twenty years.
Sadiya and Andrea are represented by Samantha Haywood.
Congratulations!