Education
Diploma in Psychotherapy (on-going), Research Society for Process Oriented Psychotherapy – RSPOP, with a focus on Trauma, large group facilitation and conflict mediation, 2020 -
M.Sc. Computational Linguistics, Manchester University
B.A. Film Studies & English (Hons) Strathclyde University
Commissions
'For Us, Girls of Colour, turning half-notes into song when the hair is all' (2023) Lyceum Theatre and Stellar Quines Theatre Company, Edinburgh
Paradise Engines (2021) The Scottish Poetry Library, the Obsidian Foundation and the Africa in Motion Festival
‘Queering History’ for Edwin Morgan Second Life (2020)
Schlosspost Membrane for Akademie Solitude (2018)
Migrancies: Jay Wright in 70's Dundee, Books from Scotland and Creative Scotland
Press:
Elusive magnetism: Poetry pamphlets and the Michael Marks awards in 2023, Imogen Cassels.
Honours, Grants and Scholarships
Selected Poet for Magma 87, Islands 2023
Pamphlet ‘Radical Pairings’ published by Ignitionpress in 2023, shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award (2023)
Pamphlet highly Commended by Hannah Lowe, in the Poetry Business’ International Poetry and Pamphlet Competition (2023)
Poem selected for Best Scottish Poems (2021)
National Flash Fiction Anthology 2020 'Peter Rabbity' nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Poem voted “Pick of the Month” in Ink, Sweat and Tears online magazine (2019)
Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 10, (2017)
Amsterdam Open Book Prize: Finalist
Firstpages Prize: Finalist
Miles Morland Award:Finalist
Esalen Emerging Writers Award: Finalist
Bridport Flash Fiction Competition: Finalist
Workshops
Spoken Word Poetry Mentorship programme - Courtney Stoddart (2021 in Edinburgh, U.K.)
Curtis Brown Breakthrough Writers Programme - Jacob Ross (2021, online)
Obsidian Foundation Workshop - Raymond Antrobus, Nick Makoha, Malika Booker (2020, online)
Purple Hibiscus Trust Workshop - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Tash Aw, (2018 in Lagos, Nigeria)
POETICS OF REFUSAL Simone White, (2018 Berlin, Germany)
Shout Out Live, Women’s Podcast Festival April (2018 in London, U.K.)
Performances
'The World That Is Shaping Our COAST’ Lateral North, Glasgow (2023)
Taking Up Space, Leith Arches, Edinburgh (2022)
‘Audio Anthology 2022’ Scottish BPOC Writers Network
Shoreline's Event Horizon, Pleasance Cabaret Bar (2021)
‘On Luing’ in Edinburgh Festival Fringe of colour (2020) film series ‘Sorry I Was On Mute,’ directed by Hannah Lavery
Mixtape: Audio Anthology piece on Soundcloud
Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, (2018)
Publications
Gutter Magazine, 2024
Anthropocene Online Magazine 2023
“Get Bent” Bending Genres Anthology 2023
Magma 82, Obsidian 2021
The Poetry Review Winter 2021
Mothers Always Write Online Magazine 2021
Icefloe Press, Online Magazine 2021
Microfiction piece 'Inheritance' in The Centifictionist, 2021
Barren Magazine, 2021
Audio Anthologies with the Scottish BPOC Writers Network
National Flash Fiction Anthology 2020
Schlosspost Membrane
Before Them_We Anthology, Flipped Eye
Erbacce Issue 59, 2019
Emma Press’ Second Place Rosette: Anthology of Britain 2020
Ink, Sweat and Tears, Online Magazine May 2019
The Lone Citizen Must Save himself' (2019)
Edited Short story collection 'Winter Shorts,' for Edition Assemblage, with Sharon Dodua Otoo.
loss lit Online Magazine, 2018
Als Ich Nach Deutschland Kam International Women's Space (Berlin in 2018)
Parabola Magazine, “The Divine Feminine,” Spring 2016
Podcasts
Field Station 5 – Migration: Perspectives on Displacement in the Anthropocene HKW, Berlin (Germany)
Hirschfeld Eddy Stiftung Intersectional Struggles: Moments of Solidarity
Young, Diasporic, Mobile, and Queer
Stellar Quines 2021, 2023
Teaching and Workshops, Artist and Panel Talks
2020
Metaphors for a Black Future: Workshop on Dream Bodies 2020
Nkiacha Atemkeng of Bakwa Magazine – the duty of the writer to be a compassionate witness in times of crisis
2019
Talk on Afro-Futurism, In*Vision 2019
Panel on Relationship Work and Coalition: with Nicola Lauré al Samurai, Katja Kinder, Edna Bonhomme, (Berlin, Germany)
Guest Lecture on Social Discourse around Slavemaking in Cameroon, Maastricht University, (the Netherlands)
The Self as a portable safe space – In*Vision 2019 (Eberswalde, Germany)
2018
Laboratory for Musical Resistance at 3hD Festival, Berlin System.Lure 25-27 OCTOBER 2018
Panel with Lahya Aukongo and Tülin Duman at IWS 2018
Keynote Speech at LCB AfroBERLIN 24. MAI 2018
Podiumsdiskussion zu Kulturelle Bildung 31. MAI 2018
NACHWUCHSFÖRDERUNG FÜR JUNGE KULTURSCHAFFENDE IN BERLIN
Femgeniuses, Speaking with Heidi Lewis: Reconciling Conflicting Goals in Black Feminism am MITTWOCH, 13. JUNI 2018
Perspectives on a more Plural Europe, Creamcake Europool 23.6.18
Dialogic Keynote with Sharon Dodua Otoo at E.O.T.O Literaturfestival AFROLUTION 27. 06. 2018
Symposium “Neue Perspektiven” Geschichte Schreiben (Neue Rundschau 2018/2),
Migration Afrika Medien Zentrum e.V. in AUGUST, 2018
Performance, Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, September 2018
Panel with AnouchK Ibacka Valente at Women of Colour Conference, Berlin September 2018
Interlause 4 Literature and Urban Space with Sarnath Banerjee, Katy Derbyshire, Florian Duijsens (moderator) and Annett Gröschner.
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