Join us during Book Week Scotland for our Radio show
We’re excited to present our radio show for Book Week Scotland 2025 featuring three incredible writers!
This intimate radio show celebrates resistance, solidarity and friendship. Writers Esraa Husain, Etzali Hernández, and ACE V!S!ON will share work they rarely showcase during performances and have time to explore what friendship and solidarity mean to them as forces for positive change.
Listen in for fresh and inspiring works from writers and highlight the possibilities, friendship, connection and coming together in a shared struggle and joy, open for us as we challenge oppression in a powerful way. The radio show is hosted by Titilayo Farukuoye.
The show will go live on our website during Book Week Scotland.
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Read on below to learn more about each guest writer and our hosts
Guest speakers
Esraa Husain (any pronouns) is a creative writer, community organiser and researcher based in Glasgow. Their writings are published online and in print in SINK, Lumpen, The Other Side of Hope, SKINNY, Scottish BPOC Writers Network, Gutter, Somewhere for Us, The Bottle Imp amongst others.
Etzali Hernández is a nonbinary Latinx poet, coder, and DJ. They have published work in the 2022 Mixtape: Writers of Colour, Ascend Magazine, Poetry and Settled Status for All, and Fierce Savage: A Queer Words Anthology. Etzali has also co-curated projects like the Queer Disabled Loss podcast, the Sore Loser zine, and Grief Offerings: (End of) Life Wishes. In 2022, Forest Publications released their first poetry pamphlet, from murky waters, we rise. You can find them on instagram at @topimorita and on their website.
ACE V!S!ON is a Scottish-Malawian artist, equally as comfortable communicating freestyle/spoken word on open-mic stages as they are lacing eloquent rhyme with experimental rhythms, often inspired by themes of grief & Ioss, refinement of love, and the universal human condition.
Titilayo Farukuoye (they/them) is a writer, educator and organiser based in Glasgow. Their work addresses social justice and community care and is informed by rights and cultural leaders like Assata Shakur and Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. Titilayo co-directs the Scottish BPOC Writers Network and is a winner of the 2022 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Their poetry pamphlet In Wolf’s Skin is available with Stewed Rhubarb Press and Titilayo’s book But We Did: Dismantling colonialist myths towards collective liberation is forthcoming with 404Ink/Saraband.
Access
- A transcripts will be available for the recording and include an audio description as well as any visual descriptions.
- Closed captioning is available on video clips.
- Show notes will also be included.
- Please email us at scottishbpocwriters@gmail.com to add any access requirements.
Book Week Scotland
Book Week Scotland is an annual celebration of books and reading, supported by Creative Scotland and SLIC. This year features a blended programme of events and activities for all ages. Find out more and see what’s on here.