Suene Honorato
Suene Honorato, born in Goiânia, in 1981. She is a literature professor in the Literature course at the Federal University of Ceará, in Fortaleza. She was a Portuguese language teacher in the Campo Educação course of the Federal University of Tocantins, in Tocantinópolis. N’oré îukaî xûéne! is her first book of poems. The title comes […]
Latinx Creatives Workshop
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 […]
Marina Sánchez
Marina Sánchez is a mix of Indigenous Mexican, Spanish and British origins. She is an award-winning poet and translator, widely published in literary journals including The Shop, Artemis, South Bank, Acumen, Obsessed with Pipework, The Reader magazine and online, Anima Press, Second Light, Save As Writers, Scintilla, Magma, Stand, Poetry News, La Tundra, Nutshell, Morning […]
Mymona Bibi
Mymona Bibi is a writer and ESOL teacher based in Newcastle. Her writing has been featured in the Ilkley Literature Festival, Lumpen Press and Corridor8. She’s a core member of the collective Brown Girls Write and has performed spoken word at events such as Read Them Your Writes, Newcastle Fringe Festival and NOVUM Festival. Mymona’s […]
Parinaz Fahimi
This poem is from Parinaz Fahimi’s posthumously published collection “Poppies with Alef”. Parinaz was a student in architecture at the university of SOAS in London, where she died of a brain tumour in 2016. She had always written poetry and wrote a lot more towards the end of her life; sadly she never saw her […]
Hang Nga Nguyen
Hang Nga Nguyen is a renowned international lawyer who founded N2law, but she has always had a place in her heart for poetry. She began writing poetry from the young age of 10 and throughout her life, has repeatedly been published in multiple national newspapers. She shot up in popularity when her poem Hoa xương […]
Tania Montenegro
Tania Montenegro haswritten poetry since childhood but only began to share readings and publications at University where she studied journalism in the 1990s. She co-founded Imagen (Impossible Grouping of Noxious Writers) and was a member of ANIDE (Association Nicaraguan Women Writers’ Association). As a feminist social communications writer and journalist she has worked in writing-editing […]
Chrissy Williams
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
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 […]