Profiled writers

Novelist and short story writer

An artist, writer, film director and screenwriter

Poet, playwright, actor, artist, Children’s Laureate Wales 2022-2023

A poet, scholar and writer

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

An actor, singer, writer and composer

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

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.

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.

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 with residencies at the National Theatre, Contact Theatre, Peterborough Maximum Security Prison, Askham Grange Open Prison, and the Whitworth Art Gallery.

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

Writer and actor

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is an author and editor.

Clementine E. 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

Poet and children's author

Leah is a writer for TV, theatre and an actor

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.

A poet feeling with his mind to unravel the knots of trans-Atlantic history

Tolula Dada is a writer and story producer

Author and Activist

Isis Davis is an actress and writer.

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.

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.

Walk, Walk, Walk. Niven Govinden 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 five non-fiction books.

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

Novelist and playwright

Poet, prose writer, and visual artist

Poet

Writer, storyteller and keynote speaker