September Rise Up!
Schedule
Wed Sep 25 2024 at 07:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
201 Acomb Road, York | York, EN
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RISE UP! - with Malika Booker, Lillian Akampurira Aujo & Rachel Bower! Malika Booker, a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage, lectures at Manchester Metropolitan University, and co-founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (A writer’s collective). She is published with the Poets Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire in The Penguin Modern Poet Series 3 (2017). A Cave Canem Fellow, A Complete Works fellow, inaugural Poet in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company, awarded the Cholmondeley Award (2019) for outstanding contribution to poetry and elected a Royal Society of Literature Fellow (2022). She is the first woman to win the Forward Prize for Best Single poem twice: The Little Miracles (2020) and Libation (2023).
Lillian Akampurira Aujo is a poet and fiction writer from Uganda, currently based in Leeds. She is the recipient of the Jalada Prize for Literature. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Gerald Kraak Award and the 2018 Brittle Paper Anniversary Award, and longlisted for the 2018 Nommo Award. Her writing has been published by Adda (the Commonwealth writers website), HarperVia, New Internationalist, Prairie Schooner, Transition Magazine, Jalada Africa, Jacana Literary Foundation, among others.
Rachel Bower is a poet and fiction writer based in Sheffield. Her debut novel, It Comes from the River will be published by Bloomsbury in January 2025. She is also the author of two poetry collections and an academic book on literary letters. Rachel's poems and stories have been widely published in literary magazines, including The London Magazine, The White Review, Magma and Stand. Her work is represented by Curtis Brown.
DOORS 7.30pm & EVENT starts at 8.30pm
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