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HBV and Forced Marriage Roadshow 2018 Abda Khan Solicitor Writer Public Speaker

Transition from Lawyer to Published Writer & International Speaker ABOUT ME Introduction Background Transition from Lawyer to Published Writer & International Speaker

MY WRITING The Novels STAINED (Harvard Square Editions, USA, 2016) RAZIA (Unbound, UK, to be published early 2019) Other Writing Short Stories in various publications Articles in The Guardian Newspaper and Red Pepper Magazine

MY DECISION TO START WRITING HBV FM & Rape in the communities in which I have lived and worked Personal interaction with victims/survivors of HBV FM & Rape Lack of fiction depicting these issues Use of fiction to highlight these problems My experience of men and HBV/FM

THE CHALLENGES The struggle to be published Lack of interest from publishers as they do not consider the themes and character to be ‘mainstream’ enough A different approach!

THE IMPACT OF STAINED Reviews Media coverage Some negative responses, but that was great! The biggest impact (personally) – communication from women who have suffered