The Latinx Creatives Workshop was set up as part of the PTC’s 20th Birthday Celebrations for Latinx people interested in learning more about translation. The PTC teamed up with Un Nuevo Sol to run a set of workshops translating Spanish, Portuguese and Quechua into English and Spanish into English as a way of exploring and […]
Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and comic book writer based in London. Her writing has been featured on BBC radio and television, and her full poetry collections are Bear (Bloodaxe, 2017) and Low (Bloodaxe, 2021). She edits the online poetry journal Perverse, and has run numerous workshops over the years. She has an Italian […]
Brown Girls Write is a writing group for all women of colour who are interested in nurturing their creative writing skills or want to give it a go. The programme was created by New Writing North’s Creative Associate Sharmin Islam, who drew on her own experiences as a South Asian woman pursuing a career in […]
Ibrahim Hirsi is a student, writer and peer researcher for the Centre for Mental Health. A digital Somali cultural archivist and independent researcher; his writings explore the changes that occurred in Somali culture and society during colonialism and to the present day. His work has appeared in PBLJ and he has worked as a consultant […]
Nashwa Gowanlock is a writer, editor, and literary translator of Arabic literature. Her published book-length translations include the collaborative novel by nine refugee writers, Shatila Stories (Peirene Press), and a co-translation of Samar Yazbek’s memoir, The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria (Rider Books, PRH). She has had poems and translations published […]
Pẹ̀lúmi Obasaju is a Nigerian-British scientist and storyteller who brings poetry into the day-to-day. An experienced performer, she has been commissioned for several projects including an AR candle with New York based Spoken Flames, the consecration of the first black bishop of the Diocese of London, and The Royal African Society 120th Anniversary Gala. Her […]
Arimoku is a Nigerian poet whose work explores the human condition through various lenses to describe our collective experience. You canfind him on Instagram: ari.moku_ Arimoku was part of the PTC’s UNDERTOW programme in 2023.
Fathima Zahra is an Indian poet based in Essex. She is a Barbican Young Poet and a Roundhouse Poetry Collective alum. Her poems have won the Bridport Prize, Asia House Slam, Wells Fest Young Poets Prize 2019. She has been featured across BBC World News, The New Indian Express and Young Poets Network. Her work […]
Phoebe Wagner is a poet, theatre-maker and facilitator. She joins the Polylingual Poets scheme to work on writing in her first language (English) and combining it with her mother and abuela’s tongue (Spanish). Her debut pamphlet The Body You’re In was published with Bad Betty Press, 2019. She is a Roundhouse Poetry Collective alum and […]
Charlotte Shevchenko Knight is a British-Ukrainian poet, studying a Masters at Goldsmiths College. She is a New Poets Prize winner (2021) and has been commended in the National Poetry Competition (2019). Her work has previously been featured in Magma, SPAM and Perverse, amongst others. Her pamphlet Ways of Healing was published by The Poetry Business […]