Sofia Buchuck Sofia Buchuck, originally from Cusco- Qosqo- the mystical centre of the world- or otherwise known as the Inca Capital of Peru. She is the only Quechua singer in the UK as well as playing Andean and Amazonian instruments with her energetic band of professional musicians at main folk and world music festivals. [...]

Vahni Capildeo Vahni Capildeo (Trinidad; UK) writes both poetry and prose. Her poetry includes No Traveller Returns(Salt, 2003); Person Animal Figure (Landfill, 2005); The Undraining Sea (Egg Box, 2009); and Dark & Unaccustomed Words (Egg Box, 2012). Her prose has featured in Iain Sinclair’s London: City of Disappearances (Penguin, 2006) and Trinidad Noir (Akashic, 2008). Capildeo's recent writing was inspired by her work for the Oxford English Dictionary. [...]

Barbara L. Lopez Cardona Born in Medellin, Colombia, South America, Came to London in 1980 escaping from war and the violation of Human Rights.“I write since I can remember . I don’t possess tertiary education that support my literary career, I just write from my heart using other people experiences as well as my [...]

Keena-Diid Caynaane Keena-Diid Caynaane was born In Mogadishu, and came to Britain in 1993, as a refugee fleeing from Somalia.She works for an NGO. Her writing is about immigration, the Somali civil war, women, fundamentalism, racism, criminal activities and human smuggling, injustice, and in general the life of exile for Somali immigrants. From [...]

Eric Ngalle Charles is a story-teller with so many tales to tell. He left his homeland Cameroon in fear of his life. He ran with crime gangs in a lawless underclass in Russia. And now, still just 26, he works hard in Wales to bring the stories of other refugees to life. He sees [...]

David Chasumba David Chasumba is a Zimbabwean Author and Poet. He has published two short story collections with Carnelian Heart Publishing: 2023 NAMA award winning, The Mad Man on First Street and Other Short Stories (2022) and Behind the Façade and Other Stories (2024). David’s poems have been published by Kalahari Review, Ipikai Poetry [...]

Brian Chikwava Brian Chikwava, is a Zimbabwean writer and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. He is currently working on a short story collection and a novel, The Steak & Porridge Doppelgänger. Brian is also a musician. Zesa Moto Muzhinji Beginning of the short story by Brian Chikwava, the Caine Prize [...]

Hamdan Dammag Hamdan Dammag is an exiled Yemeni prize-winning novelist, poet, and researcher with several publications and diverse research and writing interests. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Reading in 2005, and since then he has worked as an academic, journalist, translator, human rights activist, and political analyst. He [...]

Ellie Danak Ellie Danak lives and writes in Edinburgh and she has a degree in Swedish Language and Literature Studies. She has lived in Scotland for 10 years and since she went back to writing poetry she has enjoyed publication in the Emma Press Homesickness and Exile and Campaign in Poetry and Paper Swans Press The Darker Side of Love anthologies. Additionally, [...]

Amir Darwish Amir Darwish is a British/Syrian poet of Kurdish origin. He was born in Aleppo in 1979 and came to the UK as an asylum seeker during the Second Gulf War. His poetry has been published in the USA, Pakistan, Finland, Morocco and Mexico and in the anthology Break-Out. His collection of poetry [...]