Profiled writers

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

Ming Ho writes for stage, screen and audio drama.

Wally Jiagoo is a writer for stage and screen.

Catherine Johnson is an award-winning author of children's books, who has been writing for nearly 34 years.

A poet, novelist and musician

Anjali Joseph is a novelist and teacher of literature and creative writing.

Peter Kalu is a Manchester-based short story writer, novelist, storyteller, playwright and poet.

A rapper with a social conscience who writes conscious lyrics.

A novelist, poet and activist who uses writing to right wrongs in her novels about feminism, the caste system and untouchability, and male violence.

Shamshad Khan is a pioneer in coaching in resilience and creative writing.

Vaseem Khan is the author of the bestselling Baby Ganesh Detective Agency series featuring Indian detective, Ashwin Chopra and his baby elephant sidekick.

Muhammad Khan is an engineer, a secondary-school maths teacher, and a YA author.

Usha Kishore is a poet.

Vanessa Kisuule is a writer, poet and performer.

Benjamin Kuffuor is currently developing scripts for theatre, film and TV.

Patrice Lawrence wants to show that she's had a good experience of publishing and give people hope that they can tell their stories.

Nicôle Lecky is a writer, actor, and singer-songwriter.

Marjorie Lotfi is a poet, essayist and memoirist.

Hannah’s work, mainly as a poet, centres around migration histories, multicultural London and the complex legacies of the British Empire.

Archie Maddocks is a writer and comedian.

Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet and playwright based in London.

Anjum Malik uses fact to fiction, food, real stories of hard to reach people, as well as pure creativity to inspire her writing.

Irfan Master is a writer of novels, short stories, poems and plays.

Karen McCarthy Woolf is a poet and novelist.

A debut novelist of Caribbean descent who grew up in Bristol, UK.

Michael McMillan is a writer, playwright, artist/curator and academic.

Taíno Mendez is a novelist, essayist and screenwriter.

Mara Menzies is a performance storyteller.

Thabo Mhlatshwa is a screenwriter.

Zanib Mian is an author of children's literature.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave writes fresh fables from re-invented worlds, spun with magic, friendship and family.

A journalist and writer who has written for numerous publications including The Guardian and The Times.

A Somali-British novelist excavating the relics of shared history.

Abir Mukherjee is an author of crime novels.

Conrad Murray is a theatre-maker, writer, director, rapper, beatboxer, live looper and singer.

Philip Nanton is a writer and spoken-word performer from St. Vincent and the Grenadines who lives in Barbados.

Author, screenwriter, playwright, creative writing tutor, literary activist

Irenosen Okojie is a novelist, short story writer and poet.

Andi Osho is a writer, actor and comedian.

Derek Owusu is an award-winning writer and poet from North London.

Louisa Adjoa Parker is a writer and poet of Ghanaian and English heritage who lives in south-west England.

Ingrid Persaud is a Costa Prize winning novelist and short story writer of rare, meticulous care and mischief.

A playwright, screen writer, novelist and essayist

Poet and novelist

An Afropean writer, photographer and BBC broadcaster

Chitra Ramaswamy is a journalist and author.

A British-Colombian writer currently based in New York City.

Roger Robinson is an award-winning writer and performer from Trinidad now living in Britain.

An award winning Trinidadian-born British writer of novels, essays, literary journalism and a memoir

Carol Russell is a TV writer, traditional storyteller and consultant.