Lorna Callery-Sithole

Lorna Callery-Sithole is an award-winning, working-class, multi-disciplinary poet, visual artist, storyteller, editor and Slam Champion from Pollok. The author of three collections to date, her poetry is about unsilence; themes include class, poverty, gang culture, racism, enslavement, loss, love, motherhood, disability and mental health.
Alongside partner-in-rhyme Wendy Miller, she co-founded Versaye! spoken word cabaret in 2003 showcasing emerging talent alongside established writers. Lorna is Founder and Director of the award-winning Art Riot Studio (www.artriotstudio.com) and Art Riot Press (www.artriotpress.co.uk), Scotland’s newest, fiercest, indie press platforming marginalised voices across poetry, prose, visual art, and hybrid forms.