Resonating Ground: A Creative Writing Workshop for Global Majority Writers

In a literary landscape that often views us and our writing through a narrow lens this workshop offers a dedicated space for Black, Brown and migrant writers to bring their whole selves into the room and onto the page. What might we imagine and create if we explored, shared, and developed our ideas without the fear of judgment?

This session is an invitation to ground, check in, write, and imagine, and to allow our voices to be witnessed, heard, and land. 

This workshop is NOT included in any Festival Pass and must be booked separately.

London-based Olumide Popoola is a Nigerian-German writer. Her publications include a novella, a play, a short story collection, essays, poetry, hybrid and experimental texts, as well as recordings in collaboration with musicians. Olumide is a Lecturer in Poetry (Creative Writing) at Greenwich University. She is also dedicated to nurture and uplift emerging LGBTQ+ writers outside of institutions, most recently through her Arts Council funded mentoring scheme The Future is Back. Olumide’s critically acclaimed novels When We Speak of Nothing and Like Water Like Sea were published by Cassava Republic Press in 2017 and 2024.