Martha Pothen is a writer, actor and singer from Essex. She trained at the University of York (History BA) and The Royal Academy of Music (Musical Theatre MA). Martha’s credits as an actor include Predrinks/Afterparty at the Drayton Arms, Cold Feet and Bacon Sandwiches at the Hampstead Theatre, and most recently in The Visit at the Olivier Theatre, National Theatre. Writing […]

Maeve Scullion is from Pontypridd in South Wales. She studied Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. She writes about politics, spirituality, religion, history, science and identity. Her experience as a mixed race writer, with an Irish mother and an Indian father has informed this work.

Elaha Walizadeh is a domestic violence advisor and educator working with victims and survivors of domestic and sexual abuse for Britain’s largest gender based abuse organisation; Refuge. She is also the co-founder of Afghan Women in the Diaspora (AWD), a collective of Afghan women across the globe whose mission is to challenge patriarchal customs and […]

Kokil Sarah Isaac is a playwright and screenwriter. She studied philosophy at King’s College London and was a member of the Royal Court’s Critical Mass Group and Kali’s Discovery Programme. Credits include “Two Hearts” (Pleasance Theatre/ Bristol Arnolfini) and “The Tribe” (Kali Monologues). She has been longlisted for the Sultan Padamsee Award for Playwrighting and […]

Alia Bano is an Evening Standard and Critic’s Circle award winning playwright. Her plays include SHADES performed at the Royal Court Theatre; HENS for SkyArtsLive and PARWANA which was performed at the Wexner Centre, Ohio in Oct 2019. She has written for children’s TV and is currently working on new material for TV.

Internationally acclaimed Bapsi Sidhwa is an award winning Pakistani novelist striving above all to bring women’s issues of the Indian subcontinent into public discussion. Bapsi was raised in Lahore, Pakistan. She now lives in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore. Her 5 novels: Cracking India,The Pakistani Bride, The Crow Eaters, An American Brat, and Water, have been […]

Amber Lone is a writer from Birmingham, completing her MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck. Amber has written for theatre and radio and is currently developing a short film and editing her first novel as well as making an embarking on writing for television

Nadene Ghouri is a multi-award winning journalist specialising in human interest and human rights issues. She is a former correspondent of both the BBC and Al Jazeera English and today is a freelance broadcaster and reporter working for BBC current affairs and leading publications including The Guardian and Mail on Sunday. She is the co-author […]

Sonia has successfully combined a legal career alongside her work as a writer. She developed her first play, Behna, as part of Kali’s ‘Giving Voice’ Festival (Soho Theatre) and it went on to be performed and later toured as a site-specific production in association with Birmingham Rep and Black Country Touring. She was Artist in […]