“People in the African diaspora continue to devise incredibly creative responses to Empire. I’m the latest link in a chain that stretches across space and time. A voyager across internal and external geographies.”
Clementine Ewokolo Burnley is a multilingual author, writer of poems, short stories, and non-fiction works.
Clementine E Burnley in conversation with Amanda Vilanova
The names of the six writers who will take part in the 2025 WritersMosaic retreat have been announced. Clementine E Burnley and Amanda Vilanova from the inaugural retreat recall a magical experience and offer advice for the next cohort of writers.
Biography
Born in Cameroon, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley now lives and works between the UK and Germany. She has an MSc in Applied Linguistics and is a practice-based student at the Research Society for Process Oriented Psychotherapy, studying the links between trauma, conflict mediation, and group facilitation. Her work has been published in Ink, Sweat & Tears, Magma, and The Poetry Review.
In 2021, her poem ‘How to Eat Frogs’ was selected by Hugh Macmillan as one of the Best Scottish Poems. Also in 2021, she was the RSL Sky Award Winner for creative nonfiction. Clementine’s first pamphlet, Radical Pairings, was published in 2023. And she was named a joint winner of the 2024 James Berry Poetry Prize.
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/clementine-e-burnley/