Author, Journalist, Writing Coach, Festival Director, and Radio Presenter, with a passion for empowering women and girls creatively. My two novels, Swimming With Fishes, published in 2017 and had audio rights bought by Danish Publisher, Saga Egmont, the second largest publishing house, and Love Again, published in 2020, was one of the Jacaranda #Twentyin2020 Authors initiative.My second novel, Love Again was short-listed for the Romantic Novelist Association Award 2021, in the Inclusion Category. I am the Founder and Director of The WILDE Foundation Hammersmith & Fulham annual Writers’ Festival for Female Authors, and Indie Authors, which hosts a short story and poetry competition leading up to the festival.My short story, Justice, was published in an anthology for young adults by Puffin in 2004 and her Play, ‘House of Women,’ was longlisted by the Bush and Angle Theatre Award in 2011.I designed and wrote three Creative Writing Workshops; the flagship JustWrite, which provides a platform for new and seasoned writers, Writing to Exhale, which is an introduction to journaling, visualising, and writing for wellbeing, and Still I Write, for advanced writers and novelists, all aimed at women, online and face to face.I am the co-founder and CEO of The WILDE Foundation, (WILDE is an acronym for Women In Literature Development Empowerment) a women’s and girls’ charity that encourages victims and survivors into INFLUENCERS by providing a creative space that enables and empowers women to express themselves by scribing their stories, poems and spoken word that one day could become another woman’s survival guide.I am the former editor-in-chief of Candace Magazine, (a monthly lifestyle Magazine aimed at women of colour) and was awarded the Black Business Woman Award in 1990, I was also given the Publishing Achievement Award by The Write Thing in 1996, and hosted the first Women of Colour Achievement Award in 1997, where editor-in-chief of the American Essence Magazine, Susan L Taylor was a special guest.https://rashedaashantimalcolmauthor.com/ IG: @ashantirashedaTwitter: rashedaashanti