26 Sept, 10.00 - Louisa Adjoa Parker in conversation with Flora Cruft
Louisa Adjoa Parker is an RSA Fellow and writer of English-Ghanaian heritage, based in the Southwest. Her work has been widely published, and she is author of four poetry collections, including Salt-Sweat and Tears (Cinnamon Press), How To Wear a Skin (Indigo Dreams), and She Can Still Sing (Flipped Eye), as well as a short story collection Stay with me (Colenso Books). She has been highly commended by the Forward Prize; twice shortlisted by the Bridport Prize; won the US Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing; and her poem, ‘Kindness’, was commended by the National Poetry Competition. Her memoir of life as a mixed heritage teenager in the Devon is forthcoming with Little Toller Books.
Louisa has also written books, exhibitions and essays on ethnically diverse history in Dorset, and as well as writing, she works as an equity, diversity and inclusion consultant.
Louisa will share some of her lived experience as a woman of English and Ghanaian heritage in Lyme Regis and how her writing supported a deeper sense of connection with self, others, place and nature. She will also share some of her Dorset-inspired poems.