Join us for an online book launch event!
All SBWN events will adhere to our Safer Spaces Policy. You can learn more about our policy here.
This session is open to Black writers & writers of colour* and to white/non-BPOC writers and attendees.
Come and help us celebrate authors who have recently self-published/published with an indie publisher. We are excited to come together to enjoy their work!
This event features authors Michael Fellowes and his novel Scarlet and the White, poet Mohammed Salihu with his poetry collection Voices from the Soil: Wounds and Wisdom, and Yasmin Hanif with her picture book Abdullah’s Bear Needs a Name!
Katie Goh is the host for this event.
Tickets: £10/£6 for members| £12 for Allies and Friends of SBWN
A limited number of data and carer/childcare bursaries are available for attendees, or if you require a free ticket, request a bursary by completing our form. No one is turned away due to lack of funds!
Cancellations
If you have registered for a ticket but are unable to attend, please let us know ASAP so we can offer it to another person on the waitlist. Thank you!
Access
Before participating in this online event, please note the following:
- The event will take 2 hours with comfort breaks.
- We have a number of data and child/carer bursaries available – please email us at scottishbpocwriters@gmail.com.
- BSL interpretation provided.
- Event is hosted online using Zoom (link will be sent to participants closer to the date).
- This event will not be recorded.
- To participate you will need an internet/wi-fi connection, a desktop or mobile device to join by audio and/or video and writing materials/device.
- You may mute your mic/switch off video, or take a break at any time.
- This event is open to ALL (regardless of racial and/or ethnic background) Please see the Allies and Friends of SBWN ticket option.
- No one turned away due to lack of funds, please email us for assistance.
Questions? Email scottishbpocwriters@gmail.com.
Author Q&As
Want to know more about our authors?
Check out our Q&As where they share their inspirations, writing processes, and creative journeys! Just click on the images below:
Featured writers
Michael Fellowes lost his hearing as a teenager and pushed himself through an inaccessible education system. He workshopped and performed with New Breed disabled people’s theatre company and performed in a BBC Radio Play in Does He Take Sugar? He worked for decades as a disability and D/deaf arts project manager with a range of organisations including The Audience Agency, Shape Arts London, Accessible Events and DaDaFest.
Michael has been training adults in D/deaf and disability related topics since 1998. From 2021-2024 he was a member of Creative Scotland’s Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) group.
He is educated to MA level with further professional training in Adult Learning – City & Guilds 6302 and NVQ3 British Sign Language. Michael is an accredited tutor for Mental Health First Aid England and Scotland’s Mental Health First Aid (SMHFA). A lifelong Science fiction and Fantasy writer, his first novel – Scarlet and the White – (Love develops between a Black and a deaf teenager, trapped alone on a secret Antarctic expedition, after an ancient lethal infection escapes), is now published.
Mohammed Salihu is a Nigerian poet based in Scotland and the author of Voices from the Soil: Wounds and Wisdom. His work explores identity, migration, grief, and resilience, weaving universal themes with deep cultural roots. He has performed at the Paisley Book Festival and the George Floyd Memorial, and his poetry has been published in Brittle Paper, Fahmidan, and is forthcoming in Rowayat, among other publications.
Yasmin Hanif is a writer, poet and educator. She has had several poems published including her first piece, ‘Daisy’s Mum’ by Cranachan Publishing in their Stay-at-Home anthology. She was shortlisted for the Kavya Arts Prize in 2023 for her story, which became her debut picture book, Abdullah’s Bear Needs A Name! (Floris, 2025). She was a writer in residence at a school, working to promote diversity and inclusion within children’s writing and publishing, which won the SAMEE Aspiring Writers Award and the Scottish Education Curriculum Innovation Award 2022. She has had 8 short stories published as part of the project.
Image credit: Hannah Rounding
Host
Katie Goh (they/she) is a writer and editor. They are the author of Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange, (Canongate), and The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters (404 Ink). Katie’s essays, journalism and criticism have appeared in publications including Port, the Guardian, Wasafiri, Gutter, Vice and gal-dem, and they are an editor for Extra Teeth magazine. Katie’s writing has been shortlisted for the Kavya Prize and the Anne Brown Essay Prize, and won a Saltire Award. They grew up in the north of Ireland and live in Edinburgh.