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Rahila Gupta will lead a writing workshop.

Rahila Gupta is a freelance journalist, author and activist. She is Chair of Southall Black Sisters, a group which has campaigned for and supported black women escaping violence and chair of The Nihal Armstrong Trust which provides grants to children with cerebral palsy for cutting edge equipment and services.  Her poems and short stories have been published in several anthologies. Her books include: a collection of essays she edited, ‘From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters in 2003;’ ‘Provoked,’ the story of a battered woman who killed her violent husband and she co-wrote the screenplay of the film which was released in 2007; Enslaved,’ on immigration controls, was published in 2007. Her play, a monologue in verse, ‘Don’t Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong,’ ran in London, Edinburgh, New York, and four cities in India between 2012-14 and was nominated for a number of awards. She has written for the Guardian, New Humanist, New Internationalist and openDemocracy among other magazines, journals and websites. She and Beatrix Campbell are collaborating on a book, ‘Why Doesn’t Patriarchy Die?’  She has edited and contributed to ‘Turning the Page’ (2019), an anthology of writings by the Southall Black Sisters support group.  She is a Royal Literary Fund writing fellow.