We are delighted to offer two writing prompt workshops if you want to answer the open call but want a bit of help getting words on a page, this is for you!
These two prompt workshops, run by Nikita Chadha and Rhiya Pau, provide a space for you to think about the prompt, and to connect with other poets.
These workshops are free and open to all, but spaces are very limited, so book now (and please only sign up to one session they are not a series).
Prompt Workshop with Nikita Chadha
Thursday 2nd May, 6 p.m.
Nikita (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist committed to spotlighting the other. Nikita is a writer, published poet, editor, and facilitator who advocates for an intersectional lens and approach to be utilised they are particularly interested in the power of creativity and how it intersects with identity, especially disability, race, gender and sexuality.
Nikitas work is based on lived experience and centred within the diaspora. They believe everyone has a story to tell especially intersectional folks who are natural storytellers. Elitism and colonialism have created an environment where some stories are upheld as more important than others (just look at the western canon of literature). Nikita centres writing practice within the spaces that they curate intentionally, to turn that notion of importance on its head the stories from the diaspora & intersectional folks are powerful, and needed. We should all be confident in telling them.
