Profiled writers

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

A poet, performance artist, dramatist and librettist

writer and activist

A Hip-Hop MC, writer and theatre maker

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. 

One of the UK’s leading dramatists.

A writer and executive producer

Micah Yongo is a novelist and a journalist

Writer for stage and screen

A journalist, cultural historian and author

Poet, broadcaster and academic