Irene Staunton

Irene Staunton is a Zimbabwean publisher, editor, researcher and writer, who has worked in literature and the arts since the 1970s, both in the UK and Zimbabwe. She is co-founder and publisher of Weaver Press in Harare, having previously co-founded Baobab Books. Staunton is the editor of several notable anthologies covering oral history, short stories, and poetry, including Mothers of the Revolution: War Experiences of Thirty Zimbabwean Women (1990),[1] Children in our Midst: Voices of Farmworker's Children (2000), Writing Still: New Stories from Zimbabwe (2003),[2] Women Writing Zimbabwe (2008),[3] Writing Free (2011),[4] and Writing Mystery & Mayhem (2015).[5]

  1. ^ Magadza, Moses (6 March 2014), "Meeting legendary editor Irene Staunton", Pambazuka News.
  2. ^ Roscoe, Adrian (2007), "Writing Still: New Stories from Zimbabwe", in The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English Since 1945, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 254.
  3. ^ Hewett, Heather, "'Tell Our Own Stories': Contemporary African Women's Fiction", Women's Review of Books, Wellesley Centers for Women.
  4. ^ Fredua-Agyeman, Nana (20 June 2012), "176. Writing Free by Irene Staunton (Editor)", ImageNations: Promoting African Literature.
  5. ^ Mudzonga, Tawanda (14 December 2015), "Book Review: Writing Mystery and Mayhem" Archived 2020-05-16 at the Wayback Machine, Harare News.