Durre Shahwar

Durre Shahwar is a writer and the Co-Editor of Gathering, an essay anthology on nature, climate, the landscape by women of colour. She is currently working on her first sole-authored book, a sample of which was shortlisted and highly commended for the Morley Lit Prize 2022. It is a narrative non-fiction book on the themes of language, identity, and belonging as a Pakistani-Welsh person. Durre is repped by Nelle Andrew at Rachel Mills Literary Agency. Durre is a Wasafiri Magazine Writer-in-Residence. She is Future Wales Fellowship Artist, undertaking a year of creative research around climate change with Arts Council Wales and Natural Resources Wales. Durre is an AHRC-funded PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Cardiff University and University of Bristol, as part of which she had taught undergraduate Creative Writing modules and become an Associate Fellow of Higher Education.Nasia Sarwar-Skuse is a writer and PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Swansea University. She has been working as a creative writing facilitator for three years and is passionate about the presence of authenticity in literature by ethnic voices and its intersections with diaspora, gender, and memory. Nasia was awarded the Writers’ Bursary by Literature Wales in 2019. Her work has appeared in a number of publications.