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Workshop

Poets

AR Crow

AR Crow is a poet and performer from Glasgow. They have been writing and performing spoken word since 2015 and competed in the Scottish Slam Finals 2018, with publications including poetry in Neu Reekie’s #UntitledThree, Gutter magazine (issue 19), The Speculative Book 2019 and We Were Always Here: A Queer Words Anthology (404 Ink). Their work also featured in the short film We Were Always Here by Michael Lee Richardson and Garry Mac, a 2019 Now & Next commission. They work full time in mental health care and wish they had enough time and head space to do more creative things these days. Over lockdown they bought over half of the Pet Shop Boys back catalogue on vinyl and read a lot of queer YA. They consider that most things about them are probably a work in progress, including their current mullet.

Nadine Aisha Jassat

Nadine Aisha Jassat is an award-winning writer and author of Let Me Tell You This (‘beautifully written, immense, full of passion’ - Nikita Gill, ‘a joy both live and on the page’ - Hollie McNish). She has performed her work internationally, was part of Edinburgh International Book Festival’s Outriders Africa, and has appeared across media, including BBC’s The Big Scottish Book Club. Her work has drawn significant acclaim: including winning a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award, the UK Open Call for the British Council’s ‘Discover’, and being shortlisted for the Outspoken London Poetry Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Her writing appears in Picador’s It’s Not About the Burqa (shortlisted for Foyles’ Non-Fiction Book of the Year), 404 Ink’s Nasty Women, Bloodaxe’s Staying Human and more. Nadine was named in Jackie Kay’s International Literature Showcase selection, with Kay writing: ‘Hers is a powerful, unforgettable new voice.’