Time Cleaves Itself book launch events and replays
2025 dates TBA – book events | Come and hear about my debut poetry collection, Time Cleaves Itself!
Weaving the Uncanny – writing workshop
29 Aug 2025 | Workshop to create writing braided with Paxton House’s history and grounds, links with the Caribbean, folklore and supernatural elements.
Crafting Home Through Plurality of Language – Writing Workshop
9th May 2025 | Writing workshop for people of colour to explore ways we craft, carry & create home. Part of Creatives of colour festival.
Poetic Archiving in Grief & Loss – Writing Workshop
22 April 2025 | Conjure poems or prose, exploring objects, images, memories as placeholders, talisman or a healing spell.
North Bridge: Where We Travelled
Multi-genre anthology of fiction, poetry, memoir, a script & a game inspired by the North Bridge from 22 Edinburgh writers.
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Push The Boat Out 2024
22 Nov 2024 | Resting as Artists and Disrupting the Narrative at Push the Boat Out poetry festival
Creative Conversations – Glasgow University
2 Dec 2024 | Delighted to be part of Creative Conversations series at Glasgow University, discussing Time Cleaves Itself.
Bridging Time
Oct 2024 – Apr 2025 | Creative writing workshops + an anthology inspired by the North Bridge from 22 Edinburgh writers.
Disrupting the Narrative Exhibition
Until 23 Aug 2025 | Poetry reflecting on Edinburgh’s role in transatlantic slavery and colonialism, exhibited at The Writers’ Museum, Museum of Childhood, Museum of Edinburgh.
Black History Month 2024 – Blackness as Resistance
16 Oct 2024 | Performances from and conversation with Jay Bernard, Jasmine Mans, Tawona Sitholé, and Jeda Pearl, organised by Dr Malica S Willie. Free!