Profiled writers

author, journalist and broadcaster

SF Said is a novelist.

An author and science writer who has been inspired by India's left-leaning investigative journalists.

Annabelle Sami is a writer, director, producer and performer.

Lawrence Scott is a novelist and short-story writer.

Priya Sharma is a medical doctor and fiction writer.

A British-American poet, performer and playwright.

Nikesh Shukla is an author and screenwriter who sees stories as ‘political beasts’ offering ‘windows and mirrors’ to the world.

John Siddique is a sacred teacher and writer.

A writer and literary activist

Umi Sinha is a British-Indian novelist and lecturer in creative writing. Her recent writing has focused on identity and belonging.

An award-winning writer, performer and academic; seeker and celebrant of flipside and marginalised narratives often hiding in plain sight.

SuAndi is a poet, performance artist, dramatist and librettist.

Preti Taneja is a writer and activist.

Testament is a writer for theatre and television, a rapper and world record-holding beatboxer.

Faryal Velmi is a screenwriter.

From Brixton bards to Island songs, every generation's story, every beat played

A double Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who writes in many genres.

Charlotte Williams OBE is a Welsh-Guyanese award-winning writer, academic and cultural critic. 

Roy Williams is one of the UK’s leading dramatists.

Karla Williams is a writer and executive producer.

Micah Yongo is a novelist and a journalist.

Jingan Young is a writer for stage and screen.

Gary Younge is a journalist, cultural historian and author.

Emily Zobel Marshall is a poet, broadcaster and academic.