Four poems from a digital residency

Princess Arinola Adegbite or P.A.Bitez is a poet, lyricist, MIF artist, and filmmaker from Manchester. She has won Slambassadors, chosen by Joelle Taylor (2017), BBC Words First (2020), One Mic Stand (2021), Commonword’s Going Digital Film Competition (2021), and Manchester Creative of the Year (2021). Commissions include BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds, Manchester International Festival, Selfridges, Slam-O-Vision, HOME, Brighter Sound, and the University of Cambridge. Her poems appear in the anthologies No disclaimers, Ecosystems of Fury (Young Identity’s), Where We Find Ourselves (Arachne Press), and A Poetic Declaration (Ripples of Hope). ‘The Black Box’ features on The Poetry Society website.

Akal Mohan is an emerging poet and writer currently residing in Kampala, Uganda. A number of his writings are soon to appear on online journals.

George Gumikiriza is a Ugandan poet, writer, editor and digital marketer. Winner of the inaugural 2021 Uganda Uncovered Travel Writing Competition. A fellow of the inaugural 2021 International Writing Program’s Writing and Reading Residency by African Writers Trust, to which he won a sponsorship from the University of Iowa.
He recently made the Bold 2022 long-list, and was awarded the Akosua Zimba Scholarship for the 2022 Travel Writing masterclass taught by critically acclaimed writer Lerato Mogoathle on Lolwe Classes.
He was also second runner-up for the 2018 Babishai Poetry Award. His works appear in Aster Lit Magazine, Jalada Africa, African Writers Trust, Uganda Uncovered, Ibua Journal and Babishai. When he isn’t preoccupied with literary activities, George divides his time between playing and training chess.

Jasmine Gray is a Northern writer and Writing Squad graduate with words in The London Magazine, Anthropocene, The Double Negative and others. Her debut poetry pamphlet, Let’s Photograph Girls Enjoying Life, is published with Broken Sleep Books (2019).