Tamanna Easar Tamanna Easar is a writer from Afghanistan whose work explores themes of humanity, women’s struggles, exile, and the emotional weight of displacement. Her writing captures the resilience and silence of women living under Taliban repression, as well as the longing and alienation of those torn between homeland and exile. Her stories have [...]
Aziz Isa Elkun
Exiled2023-07-03T11:51:06+00:00Aziz Isa Elkun Poet and academic Aziz Isa Elkun was born in Uyghuristan (Uyghur Autonomous Region). He grew up in Shahyar County, close to the Tarim River on the Northern edge of the Taklamakan Desert. After graduating from Urumchi University in 1991, he was persecuted by Chinese authorities due to his student political activities. [...]
Inua Ellams
Exiled2021-01-26T16:24:45+00:00Inua Ellams Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a cross art form practitioner, a poet, playwright & performer, graphic artist & designer and founder of the Midnight Run — an international, arts-filled, night-time, playful, urban, walking experience. He is a Complete Works poet alumni and a designer at White Space Creative Agency. Across his [...]
Samatar Elmi
Exiled2021-01-26T16:24:57+00:00Samatar Elmi Samatar Elmi is a poet, PhD candidate and educator. His writing plays in the liminal spaces between racial, socio-cultural and political identity claims. He has been shortlisted for the Venture Award, the Complete Works II, New Generation African Poets and is a graduate of the Young Inscribe Mentoring Program. Poems have appeared in [...]
Maia Elsner
Exiled2024-03-12T14:15:00+00:00Maia Elsner's debut collection Overrun by Wild Boars (flipped eye, 2021) won the Somerset Maugham Award and was listed as one of the top ten books of 2021 by The Telegraph. Her debut non-fiction book, Dante Elsner (Guillemot Press, 2023), recounts through archival material, interview and over 300 images, the life story of her [...]
Eduardo Embry
Exiled2021-01-26T16:24:41+00:00Eduardo Embry Chilean writer (b. Valparaíso). Resident in the UK, and Hartley Research Fellow, carrying out research on censorship of poetry during the dictatorship of General Franco. Also is independent Honorary Research Fellow in Latin American poetry in the Spanish Department, University of Southampton. Has published several collections of poetry both in his own [...]
Mabel Encinas
Exiled2021-01-26T16:24:44+00:00Mabel Encinas Mabel Encinas has participated in diverse groups of artists and non-artists, wanting to create a fairer society. In relation to writing, she is a member of Hispanic American Women Writers and Spanish and Latin AmericanPoets and Writers (SLAP). Writing and art has allowed her to process her experiences as a migrant woman, [...]
Adriana Diaz Enciso
Exiled2022-06-15T10:16:47+00:00Adriana Díaz Enciso Adriana Díaz Enciso was born in Mexico and has lived in London since 1999. She has published (in Mexico) several books of poetry, novels and collections of short stories, and in the UK the poetry pamphlet Flint (Contraband Books). She’s the author of many lyrics for Mexican rock band Santa Sabina, [...]
Amanda Epe
Exiled2021-01-26T16:24:57+00:00Amanda Epe Amanda Epe was born and raised in London to parents who immigrated from Ghana and Nigeria. She is a published poet, memoirist and a blogger. Her work has appeared in anthologies as well as journalist reports in online and print magazines. Her blog focuses on health, well being, campaigning and empowering African girls [...]
Furat Esbir
Exiled2021-01-26T16:24:57+00:00Furat Esbir Furat Esbir was born in Syria in 1958 and moved to New Zealand in 2001. She writes about women's and children's rights for Arabic newspapers and magazines.She has published three poetry books: Like Water she Can't be Broken (2004), Trick of Mystery (2006) and The Flower of the Naked Mountains (2009). [...]