Statement
Lorna Callery-Sithole is an award-winning, working-class, multi-disciplinary poet, visual artist, and Slam Champion from Pollok whose work has appeared in?Off-page 24 at Many Studios, St. Mungo’s Museum, Magma, Glasgow Review of Books,?New Writing Scotland, Best Scottish Poems, and?Causeway/Cabhsair.? Poetry collections: 'Pigeon with Warburtons' (Speculative Books, 2019), 'Colour Theory' (Hybrid Dreich, 2022), 'Facing Our Past: Shining the Light' (National Trust for Scotland, 2022), and 'the girl with heaven in her hair' (Hybrid Dreich, Aug 2024).
Lorna is co-founder of ‘Versaye!’?spoken word cabaret promoting emerging talent alongside established writers. She has held residencies at HMYOI Polmont and the National Trust for Scotland and she is Spoken Word Editor for the Glasgow Review of Books. Lorna’s work explores a variety of issues including working-class narratives, homelessness, racism, identity, grief and loss.
She has been commissioned to produce her debut storytelling performance ‘Inheritance’ for the Village Storytelling Festival in June 2024, an autobiographical account of two siblings growing up in Pollok in the 1980-90s reflecting on the tribalism of gang culture, community, identity, and language.
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