Five years ago, a fiction studio (a company that creates stories) with a difference arrived. Storymix was set up by Jasmine Richards to put children and teens of colour at the heart of stories and to help creators who may be treated differently because of their skin colour, culture or nationality.
As a child, Richards loved visiting her local library, where the staff found books that suited her reading skills. However, she says, “It was very rare I’d ever see a character in a book that looked like me.”
The idea for Storymix landed when Richards was in a shop with her son and found no books featuring characters of colour. She thought, “This isn’t good enough, because there’s no way any young person who loves reading should grow up…
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