Profiled writers

Leila Aboulela is a novelist and short story writer.

An artist, writer, film director and screenwriter

Connor Allen is a poet, playwright, actor, artist and former Children’s Laureate Wales (2021-2023).

Jason Allen-Paisant is a poet, scholar and writer.

A multi award-winning poet who has made an investigation of missing sound his life's work.

Renu Arora is an actor, singer, writer and composer.

Shara Atashi is an Iranian-born writer and translator now living in Aberwystwyth, Wales.

Fraser Ayres is an actor, writer and director.

Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE is a writer, director, composer, choreographer, designer, producer and performer working in film, theatre, television and radio.

Jasbinder Bilan is a children's author.

Valerie Bloom MBE is the author of several volumes of poetry for adults and children, picture books, pre-teen and teenage novels and stories for children.

Maame Blue is a writer and podcast host.

Jeffrey Boakye is a light-footed cultural critic, provocateur, English teacher, writer and user of metaphors.

Natasha Bowen is an author of young adult fantasy novels.

An author and activist whose plays and novels highlight the importance of community and human rights.

Yvonne Brewster cofounded Talawa Theatre Company in 1985. Talawa, a Jamaican word for small but mighty, is a description that fits Brewster perfectly.

Linda Brogan is a multi-award winning playwright.

A historian focused on the African Diaspora, and a documentary film producer

Nathan Bryon is a writer and actor.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is an author and editor.

Clementine Ewokolo Burnley is a multilingual author, writer of poems, short stories, and non-fiction works.

Edson Burton is a poet, drama writer, curator and historian.

A writer, editor, and Britain's first black female publisher

An actor, director, radio script writer and consultant

Debjani Chatterjee is a poet and children's author.

Leah is a writer for TV, theatre and an actor.

Jacqueline Crooks is a novelist and short story writer.

Miguel Cullen is a British/Argentine poet and journalist.

A playwright and theatre director, Patricia Cumper has also adapted novels for radio and television.

Snežana Ċurčić is a journalist and broadcaster.

Fred D'Aguiar is a poet feeling with his mind to unravel the knots of trans-Atlantic history.

Tolula Dada is a writer and story producer.

A. M. Dassu is an author and activist.

Isis Davis is an actress and writer.

Ishy Din is a playwright for radio and theatre.

Anni Domingo is an actor, director, educator, journalist and author.

Sharon Duggal writes novels and short stories.

Zena Edwards is a multifaceted artist and cultural producer involved in writing and performance for over 25 years, touring globally.

Diana Evans is a novelist and critic.

A Booker Prize-winning author whose writing and many projects are based around her interest in the African diaspora.

Roopa Farooki is a novelist and medical doctor.

Gabriel Gbadamosi is a poet, playwright, essayist and critic.

Salena Godden is one of Britain’s best-loved and foremost poets whose electrifying live performances have earned her a devoted following.

Niven Govinden is an author speaks for silenced voices of NY drag queens, the male muse, the toxic teens of suburbia.

Colin Grant is Director of WritersMosaic and the author of six non-fiction books.

An art-armed freedom fighter from Latin America, poet, award-winning author, and philosopher in exile.

Guy Gunaratne is a novelist and playwright.

Maggie Harris is a poet, prose writer and visual artist.

Will Harris is a poet.

Laura Henry-Allain is a writer, storyteller and keynote speaker.