Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield Presents: Cut Colllective

Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield as its first reading into the Autumn 2023 Series presents: CUT COLLECTIVE. Diamond LT4, UoS.

Ethel Maqeda is a Sheffield-based Zimbabwean British writer and graduate of the University of Sheffield’s MA Creative Writing program. With a passion for foregrounding unheard narratives, her work draws inspiration from African women’s experiences, at home and in the diaspora.

She uses prose fiction and non-fiction to explore issues of home, black womanhood, African women’s struggles and triumphs over experiences of racism, colonialism and global exploitation. She is currently writing a creative non-fiction collection exploring Southern African women’s practice of Ubuntu in the diaspora.

Ethel’s stories have appeared in various journals, including Short Fiction: The Visual Literary Journal, Isele Magazine, Wasafiri Magazine, and the University of Sheffield’s creative writing journal Route 57) and in anthologies, Volume-3 (Palm-Sized Press), We are not Shadows (Folkways Press), Wretched Strangers (Boiler House) and Verse Matters (Valley Press).