What is Advocacy-based publishing?
This is a corporate social responsibility service that we provide in order to support various equality and wellness causes.
Advocacy-based publishing is by invitation only. If you would like to be considered for live or future projects, please contact us by email at info@carnelianheartpublishing.co.uk with a brief note on your writing experience and why you would like to participate. We will announce on our social media handles when seeking authors and publishing professionals to participate in our projects. You may also subscribe to our mailing list below for the latest updates on our projects.
WHO? WHY? WHAT? WHEN?
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Who?
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
is an author, editor and the founder of Carnelian Heart Publishing Ltd. She runs the advocacy-based publishing projects for the company. To find out more about the causes she focuses on, please visit her:
and follow her on:
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Why?
Benefits for writers:
- Promotes equality, diversity & inclusion by democratising writing
- Gives writers a sense of purpose
- Empowers and gives a voice to the voiceless
- Gives hope that change is possible
- Boosts confidence and promotes mental health
- Promotes writing as a career rather than a hobby
Benefits for readers:
- Expands the reading culture
- Provides access to authentic voices from non-mainstream authors
- Participation in advocacy through buying books
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What?
Advocacy-based publishing projects involve:
- Seeking talent
- Mentoring and coaching during the writing process
- Editing and proofreading the work
- Publishing
- Remunerating the writers
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When?
Carnelian Heart Publishing runs projects to amplify the voices of talented Zimbabwean writers, on an ad-hoc basis. The following books are the result of such projects:
Turquoise Dreams - published December 2020
Brilliance of Hope - published September 2021
Tesserae - published September 2023
