How do you classify…
1. Yourself as a writer? Writer of Colour
2. Your genre? Poetry stage Theatre, Film and Non fiction ( identity, race, trans-racial adoption)
3. Your published work? Ungrateful – A Paper Daughter. Foreign Goods (Oberon Books anthology of Beitiwh East Asian playwrights) British East Asian Plays (Aurora Metro Books) Elevator Falsh Fiction anthology from BAMe writers (Comminword) Shot In The Dark flash fiction anthology (Commonword Crocus) Perpetual Child An-Ya project, Dear Wonderful You Qn-Ya project, Letters to Adopted and Fostered Youth, The Dance is New
4. Your current writing? Currently working on my first theatre commission for Komola Collective the re-writing of Shaharzad
5. Your ideal reader? Anyone who reads anything I’ve written is my ideal reader! I hope my work will interest a wide demographic of gender, age and race
6. Your aspirational influences as a writer who write in your genre and why they are beacons for you? Inua Ellams poetry and stage Sebstian Barry Stage TS Elliot, Dylan Thomas, Slyvia Plath, Stevie Smith and Peter Porter poetry, Theatre Harold Pinter, Beckett and early David Hare
7. Other books similar to yours? oh god poetry I was cf to Emily Dickinson
Please provide a list of words which describe your genre and areas of specific interest as well as specifically linking to your published book and which relate to your current areas of writing interest.
Identity Race Belonging British East Asian Cultural Dislocation Loss Trauma Memory Blackhumour
Lucy is published in our Anthology ‘The Dance is New’, available now on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2NG92A8
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