Co-Curated by Hannah Lavery and Marjorie Lotfi

Each writing workshop will be led by Hannah Lavery or Marjorie Lotfi, with writing prompts and a safe space for exploring and developing your writing practice.

The Writers of Colour Writing Group has prodduced two audio anthologies and we aim to produced another 'Mixtape' on work created during this programme.

We also hope to visit the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August and host an in-person hybrid reading/celebration in December.

Hannah Lavery is an award-winning poet, playwright, performer, experienced workshop facilitator and Edinburgh Makar. Her poetry has been published widely and her poem, Scotland, you’re no mine, was selected by Roseanne Watt as one of the Best Scottish Poems 2019. The Drift, her autobiographical play, toured Scotland as part of the National Theatre of Scotland’s Season 2019. In 2020, she was selected as one of the Scottish Voices for BBC Writers’ Room, and received a Creative Edinburgh Award in 2020 for her work with the Writers of Colour group and with Fringe of Colour. Her highly acclaimed play Lament for Sheku Bayoh was directed by Hannah in a co-production with the Royal Lyceum Theatre, National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Festival. Hannah is one of Imaginate’s Accelerator Artists and an Associate Artist with the National Theatre of Scotland. Hannah's debut collection Blood, Salt, Spring was published in March 2022 by Polygon.

Hannah’s website | Twitter

Marjorie Lotfi is an award-winning poet, seasoned performer and facilitator of creative writing, and the Development Director of Open Book. Her poems have been included in Best Scottish Poems, won competitions and been performed live across Scotland and on BBC Radio 4/Radio Scotland. They have also been widely published, including in Being Human and journals such as The Rialto, Gutter, Rattle, Ambit and Magma, and have been commissioned for a number of anthologies. She is a winner of the inaugural James Berry Prize, and her first collection is forthcoming with Bloodaxe Books in 2023. Refuge, poems about her childhood in revolutionary Iran, is published by Tapsalteerie.

@marjorielotfi on both Twitter and Instagram | marjorielotfi.com

Writers of Colour Writing Group Jun 2022 - Feb 2023