Photo by Naomi Woddis
Dorothea will be helping Kirkgate Market find its voice in To Market, To Market.
Dorothea Smartt is Co-Director of INSCRIBE, the Black & Asian writer development project housed by Peepal Tree Press, Leeds. She has a specific responsibility for YOUNG INSCRIBE, a programme supporting young writers over 18 years of age. Dorothea is also a respected poet/live artist and facilitator, with an international profile, two published collections, and several commissions and residencies to her credit.
Described as ‘accessible and dynamic’, her poetry appears in several journals and ground-breaking anthologies, including Bittersweet (Women’s Press, 1998), The Fire People (Payback Press, 1998), Mythic Women/Real Women (Faber, 2000), IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (2000), and A Storm Between Fingers (Flipped Eye, 2007).
She continues to work in schools, run workshops and perform in Britain and abroad. She is poetry editor of Sable (a magazine for new writing by Black writers), while currently researching and developing new works and working towards her second full collection.
You can find out more about INSCRIBE and YOUNG INSCRIBE here.
To Market, To Market
Leeds Kirkgate Market is alive with movement, from the bustling shoppers to the trade routes that trace their way to Yorkshire from all over the world. The gifted writers of Young Inscribe will seek out the stories of Kirkgate’s people: from Victorian characters like ‘Cheap Jack’ and Mr Marks & Mr Spencer to the traders...
