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Their poetry has been published in Full House, Spellbinder, and elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586df6ebfc7f8b19f99d5a/896c107e-6668-42e9-b3fd-b4b8f691bc36/Sam+Cavendar+Lit+Sync+6.jpeg Meet The Team - Make it stand out Caleb Parkin, Bristol City Poet 2020 - 22, is published widely including in The Guardian, Poetry Review, The Rialto and he was guest poet on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please. He holds an MSc Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes and tutors for Poetry Society, Poetry School, Arvon and elsewhere. Publications: ‘Wasted Rainbow’ (tall-lighthouse); 'This Fruiting Body (Nine Arches Press, longlisted for the Laurel Prize), ‘All the Cancelled Parties’ (Bristol Ideas), ‘The Coin’ (Broken Sleep). From 2023, he’s a practice-as-research PhD candidate at University of Exeter, as part of RENEW Biodiversity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586df6ebfc7f8b19f99d5a/1622644948545-BIM3ZYBPT193R3X922SN/TJ+Dema+pic+Petra+Rolinec1+2.jpg Meet The Team - Make it stand out Tjawangwa Dema is an award-winning poet, events manager, and educator. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. Tjawangwa is an alumna of the HarperCollins Author Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. She has been shortlisted for Bristol City Poet and won the Sillerman First Book Prize. She has given readings in over twenty countries and worked collaboratively with fellow poets, musicians, scholars, dancers, as well as theatre and film-makers. Tjawangwa co-produces the Africa Writes – Bristol festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586df6ebfc7f8b19f99d5a/4b5f99f3-249c-4e91-a5b1-68e5854e151a/me.jpg Meet The Team - Make it stand out Martin Rieser is both a poet and visual artist. His interactive installations based on his poetry have been shown around the world, including Understanding Echo shown in Japan 2002, Hosts Bath Abbey 2006, Secret Door Invideo Milan 2006, The Street RMIT Gallery Melbourne 2008/ISEA Belfast 2009, Secret Garden, Phoenix Square 2012/Taipei 2013 and RUR at Glyndebourne in 2014 for REFRAME at the University of Sussex. His published work has appeared in Poetry Review and the Write to be Counted anthology, Magma Magazine 74, Morphrog 22. He runs the Stanza poetry group in Bristol and has edited and published two Group collections with Tangent Press: Calyx and The Weather Indoors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586df6ebfc7f8b19f99d5a/1622645436067-0UT1M9EOLGAX2ZKLYP8H/Edson+Burton.jpg Meet The Team - Make it stand out Dr Edson Burton is a writer, historian, programme-curator and performer based in Bristol. Between, 1998-2003 Edson was the lead curator for Black History Month Bristol as part of his role as Kuumba Centre librarian. He has curated the Arnolfini take over Afrometropolis 2017, The Late Night Blues for the Architecture Centre (2018), Bristols Got Soul for Colston Hall. His academic interests include: Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Black History in the USA, Cultural continuities between Africa & the New World. 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Bristol Young City Poet Creating opportunities for young people in the city to be creative and share their perspectives and stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586df6ebfc7f8b19f99d5a/1690372857041-M5JG59GDXJ9UFBDQR1OG/Altoma+%28Lyra+%2723+performance%29.jpeg Bristol Young City Poet - Altoma Elwasila Altoma was one of the two inaugural Bristol Young City Poets. She was 14 when she started writing poetry during lockdown when the BLM movement began. “I felt so many different emotions at the same time and I didn’t know what to do. I was stuck at home thinking about these injustices all the time. It was everywhere. So finally one day I just randomly decided to turn all those emotions into poetry.” As Young City Poet, Altoma performed at Bristol Beacon’s grand reopening event, at two annual Lyra Festivals, live on ITV News, and was a finalist for the Bristol Young Heroes Award 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586df6ebfc7f8b19f99d5a/1690372856976-AZPSFRXE0R2PJ1ROKO4J/Nara+%28Lyra+%2723+performance%29.jpeg Bristol Young City Poet - Nara Pring Nara was one of the two inaugural Bristol Young City Poets. She took on this role at just 15 years old, writing poetry that is personal to her own life and seeking to reflect other young people in the city. “My poetry has helped me find the words to voice my experiences in life, and my experiences as a young poet have given me somewhat of a confidence boost as it feels like my poetry is even more real. It’s been an amazing opportunity for me to gather the courage to perform. As Young City Poet, Nara performed at an International Women’s Day event at City Hall, at two annual Lyra Festivals, live on ITV News, and was a finalist for the Bristol Young Heroes Award 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586df6ebfc7f8b19f99d5a/f0ba2796-220a-4d7f-bae1-73bbf538c76a/Deanna.jpeg Bristol Young City Poet - Deanna Rodger Deanna Rodger is a former UK Poetry Slam Champion who has recently written and performed commissioned pieces including ‘Bigger Than Sport’ for BBC1’s Sports Personality of the Year, ‘Black History Matters’ for BBC Sport 2020 and ‘If’ which was read by Serena Williams for International Women's Day 2021. Deanna has over ten years of facilitation experience and has designed long term programs for schools and youth centres such as Active Citizens (British Council and Lyrix Organix), Creative Facilitation Training (Roundhouse) and Black Lives matter homepack (Hamilton Trust). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586df6ebfc7f8b19f99d5a/1bd8984c-5d74-4cc2-ad13-d1f44513289f/Nara+and+Altoma+%28ITV+shoot%29.jpg Bristol Young City Poet - Bristol Young City Poet Creating opportunities for young people in the city to be creative and share their perspectives and stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586df6ebfc7f8b19f99d5a/1690372857041-M5JG59GDXJ9UFBDQR1OG/Altoma+%28Lyra+%2723+performance%29.jpeg Bristol Young City Poet - Altoma Elwasila Altoma was one of the two inaugural Bristol Young City Poets. She was 14 when she started writing poetry during lockdown when the BLM movement began. “I felt so many different emotions at the same time and I didn’t know what to do. I was stuck at home thinking about these injustices all the time. It was everywhere. So finally one day I just randomly decided to turn all those emotions into poetry.” As Young City Poet, Altoma performed at Bristol Beacon’s grand reopening event, at two annual Lyra Festivals, live on ITV News, and was a finalist for the Bristol Young Heroes Award 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586df6ebfc7f8b19f99d5a/1690372856976-AZPSFRXE0R2PJ1ROKO4J/Nara+%28Lyra+%2723+performance%29.jpeg Bristol Young City Poet - Nara Pring Nara was one of the two inaugural Bristol Young City Poets. She took on this role at just 15 years old, writing poetry that is personal to her own life and seeking to reflect other young people in the city. “My poetry has helped me find the words to voice my experiences in life, and my experiences as a young poet have given me somewhat of a confidence boost as it feels like my poetry is even more real. It’s been an amazing opportunity for me to gather the courage to perform. As Young City Poet, Nara performed at an International Women’s Day event at City Hall, at two annual Lyra Festivals, live on ITV News, and was a finalist for the Bristol Young Heroes Award 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586df6ebfc7f8b19f99d5a/f0ba2796-220a-4d7f-bae1-73bbf538c76a/Deanna.jpeg Bristol Young City Poet - Deanna Rodger Deanna Rodger is a former UK Poetry Slam Champion who has recently written and performed commissioned pieces including ‘Bigger Than Sport’ for BBC1’s Sports Personality of the Year, ‘Black History Matters’ for BBC Sport 2020 and ‘If’ which was read by Serena Williams for International Women's Day 2021. Deanna has over ten years of facilitation experience and has designed long term programs for schools and youth centres such as Active Citizens (British Council and Lyrix Organix), Creative Facilitation Training (Roundhouse) and Black Lives matter homepack (Hamilton Trust). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586df6ebfc7f8b19f99d5a/def21c64-c206-421c-93a0-4b467d077c80/Caleb.jpg Bristol Young City Poet - Caleb Parkin Caleb Parkin is the third Bristol City Poet (2020-2022). He won second prize in the National Poetry Competition 2016, the Winchester Poetry Prize 2017 and various other shortlists. His educational work is extensive, tutoring for Poetry Society, Poetry School, Cheltenham Festivals, Arvon and First Story. 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