EXILED LIT CAFE
Every month hear some fantastic exiled writers and musicians and there is an Open Mic session too.
Join Exiled Writers Ink for 2025!
Thursday 13th February 6.30 to 8.45 pm
Free Event
Don’t Mess with the Sun:
Our Planet in Crisis
photo: Sudan by Sue Wallace-Shaddad
with
Shanta Acharya, Catherine Davidson, Gaby Sambucetti and
Sue Wallace-Shaddad
Shanta Acharya was born in India. Her recent poetry collections are Dear Life (2025), What Survives Is The Singing (2020), Imagine: New and Selected Poems (2017) and Dreams That Spell The Light (2010). Her doctoral study, The Influence of Indian Thought on Ralph Waldo Emerson, appeared in 2001 and her novel, A World Elsewhere, in 2015. Her poems have been translated into several languages.
Catherine Davidson grew up in Los Angeles and lives in London. From a Greek and Jewish immigrant background, she has published poetry, nonfiction and fiction on both sides of the Atlantic and is the author of critically acclaimed novel, The Priest Fainted. She teaches at Regent’s University and elsewhere.
Gaby Sambucetti Born in Argentina in 1986, her latest book is The Good, the Bad & the Poet (2020), and her reviews and other writing have appeared in magazines, anthologies and on literary platforms in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Germany, Bolivia, the US, Mexico, Chile, Spain, Bangladesh, India, and the UK. She is a teacher of Latin American and Spanish literature, and holds an MA in Modern Languages, Literature and Culture from King’s College London where she won the 2022 Cosmo Davenport- Hines poetry prize.
Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s poetry pamphlets are Once There was Colour (Palewell Press, 2024), Sleeping Under Clouds (Clayhanger Press, 2023), A City Waking Up (Dempsey and Windle, 2020). Once There was Colour focuses on the impact of the current crisis situation in Sudan and how it has affected the poet and her family. With poems widely published elsewhere, Sue writes poetry reviews, runs workshops, blogs for The Causley Trust and is Secretary of Suffolk Poetry Society.
Open Mic
Hosted by Jennifer Langer, poet and EWI founding director
Camden Art Centre
Finchley Road
Entrance on Arkwright Road
London NW3 6DG