Akila Richards is a poet, writer and spoken word artist, performing and collaborating in the UK and abroad.
She has created work for theatre, audio podcasts, soundscapes and film, digital platforms, cultural and for artistic events.
Her most recent poems and short stories featured in ‘Witness Stand’ at Brighton Festival 22, Artist in House residency at Brighton Dome for her ongoing ‘Rest Experience’ exploration, Covert Magazine and speculative anthology Glimpse (Peepal Tree Press).
Akila’s poetry pamphlet ‘Ritual for a Mango’ is currently being edited for publication and she is writing her first novel. akilarichards.wordpress.com/
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Between 2020 and 2023, over 35 award winning, established and emerging writers worked with Writer in Residence, Alinah Azadeh, to develop and produce new stories and poetry responding to Sussex’s sublime coastal landscape, through its history and topography, as part of We See You Now.
Eleven of these writers were commissioned to record their work for the We Hear You Now audio series.
The work they produced seeks to reframe the traditional pastoral image of the English coastal landscape through a global, poetic and quietly radical lens.
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