Cafe Writers:Katherine Kilalea & Mona Arshi

Open Mic Event

Contact: cafewriters.co.uk

Katherine Kilalea was born in South Africa and moved to London in 2005 to study for an M.A. in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of One Eye’d Leigh, shortlisted for a Costa Poetry Award and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize for writers under 30. She has received Arts Council Awards for poetry and represented South Africa at the London Southbank Centre’s Poetry Parnassus in 2012.

Mona Arshi was a human rights lawyer who has retrained as a Poet. She recently completed her Masters in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of East Anglia and obtained a distinction.

Mona’s poem Hummingbird won first prize in the Magma Magazine poetry competition in 2012.She has recently been selected for ‘The Complete Works’, a national development programme funded by the Arts Council. Her collection was shortlisted by Simon Armitage in the 2012 Book and Pamphlet Competition.

Price: £2.00

Time: 7:30pm