Janette Ayachi

Janette Ayachi is a Scottish-Algerian poet with an MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Her poetry, prose and essays have been translated into several languages in journals and anthologies. She is the author of The Mermaid, The Girl and The Gondola (Black Wolf Edition), illustrated by Fabio Perla; Hand Over Mouth Music (Pavilion, Liverpool University Press), which won the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Award in 2019; and QuickFire, Slow Burning (Pavilion, LUP, 2024) which was shortlisted for Scotland’s National Book Awards and The Laurel Prize in 2024. She’s a regular on BBC arts programmes, performs at festivals internationally and collaborates with artists. Janette is currently writing her third poetry collection, Corpus Mysticum, for which she has been awarded a bursary from Literature Alliance Scotland and is looking for an agent for her travel memoir, Lonerlust and debut novel, Sweet Figs.