Words, Sounds & Power

‘Words, Sounds and Power’ (a Rastafarian concept that affirms the subconscious power of words) was a creative writing journal that McMillan edited and compiled, and emerged from a weekly Black writers workshop that he facilitated at Centerprise Publishing Project, Hackney, when he worked as it’s first Black Literature Worker (1988-90). 

Centerprise Publishing Project in its affiliation with The Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers was a vanguard for working class writing and community publishing, though Black writers were always visible. The aim of publishing Words, Sounds and Power was therefore to redress this invisibility by producing a regularly printed journal as a creative forum for Black writers in Britain that was produced by their peers. Unfortunately, only one issue was ever published.