About
Christina Fonthes is an award-winning Congolese-British writer whose work explores womanhood, migration, identity, and belonging. Her writing has appeared in literary journals and anthologies, including Ake Review, Filigree, and Too Young, Too Black, Too Different. In 2021, she received the Royal Society of Literature Sky Arts Writers Award for Fiction and was mentored by acclaimed authors Bernardine Evaristo and Irenosen Okojie. Fonthes is also the founder of REWRITE, a creative writing organisation dedicated to supporting Black women and women of colour writers. Beyond her fiction, she works as an interdisciplinary artist, creating poetry films, short films, and digital portraits. Her debut novel, Where You Go, I Will Go, was published in 2025 and was shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. In 2026, she won the award. Her writing gives voice to underrepresented experiences, particularly those of Black and queer women navigating family, culture, and displacement.
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