Mouth Mek Fi Nyam Showcase

Artists

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  Dr Marl’ene Edwin

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  Dr Marl’ene Edwin

  Marl’ene Edwin is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a Senior Fellow of the HEA and also a Churchill Fellow. Her research interests are Caribbean Creole Languages and Oral Literature. She is Programme Convenor for the MA in Black British Literature and the Academic Lead for the Goldsmiths Equity Awards.

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  Joan Anim-Addo

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  Joan Anim-Addo

  Joan is a creative writer of several genres including theatre, poetry and the short story. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose writing has engaged Lewisham for decades. Founding the Caribbean Women Writer’s Alliance, she spearheaded ‘Lewisham Literature Festival: A Celebration of Black Writing’, 2003. Her Longest Journey: A History of Black Lewisham continues to inform and inspire action borough-wide and beyond. She is co-founder of Goldsmiths’ Creative and Life-Writing postgraduate programme which has produced many inspiring contemporary UK writers. She has recently co-founded and is at the heart of The Black British Writers and Scholars Alliance. She is Director of the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies, and Emeritus Professor, Goldsmiths University of London. She is the UK’s first Black Professor of Literature. She was born in Grenada.

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  Leone Ross

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  Leone Ross

  Leone Ross is a novelist, short story writer, editor and educator. Her third novel, This One Sky Day (Faber) was nominated for the Women’s Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Ondaatje Prize, the BOCAS Prize — and named a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her short fiction has been widely anthologised and her first short-story collection, Come Let Us Sing Anyway, prompted the Times Literary Supplement to call her ‘a pointiliste, a master of detail…’. In 2021, she won the Manchester Prize for Fiction for a single short story. She has judged the Mslexia Magazine, VS Pritchett Award and Bridport Prize writing competitions, in the short story category. Ross has taught creative writing for 27 years, up to PhD level, and presently works as a freelance writing mentor. She is the editor of Glimpse: A Black British Anthology of Speculative Fiction, published in 2022 (Peepal Tree).

  Photo credit: (C) Hayley Benoit

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  Debbie Alleyne

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  Debbie Alleyne

  Debbie Alleyne was born to Guyanese parents, whilst they studied in England during the 1960s. She’s recently retired from a career in accounting, and now blends married live with parental caring responsibilities. She is currently exploring the joy of reclaiming her voice in words and capturing her blended British Caribbean heritage in poetry.

   

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  Jacqueline Codrington

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  Jacqueline Codrington

  Jacqueline Codrington was born to Jamaican parents. She is the author of 4 poetry collections and a fiction chapbook. Her work has also been published in several anthologies. She has a passion for giving a voice to the voiceless and amplifying untold stories.