PUBLISHED WORKS SO FAR...

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Ladybird Stories for Pride is a colourful collection of original stories celebrating Pride. Aimed at children aged four to seven for family listening, learning and the development of young minds.

Pride is all about embracing you for being you! These five stories will show children how to bring the teaching of “love is love” into their everyday lives, at home and in the playground.

Written by Gray Robert Brown, Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini, Alix Eve, Octavia Nyombi and Annie Siddons.

Join Rey, Elle, Shan and Funmi who have finally convinced their parents to let them hold their very first sleepova. As each year tugs them further into adulthood and life doesn’t pan out quite as they imagined, they struggle to hold on to a friendship that they swore would last a lifetime. A frank, funny and moving coming-of-age story, Sleepova is an ode to black women, their boundless spirits and wild dreams.

Joyful, Joyful is a colour-illustrated collection of stories and poems celebrating joy, showcasing 40 talented Black writers and artists from across the world. Curated by British Book Awards Illustrator of the Year Dapo Adeola, with a foreword by the acclaimed Patrice Lawrence. Published in 2022.

CripTales was commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on BBC Four and BBC America in 2020 to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK’s Disability Discrimination Act, which criminalised discrimination against disabled people in many areas of life.

CripTales comprises six fictional monologues portraying some very real experiences and challenge the view that having a disability is a problem or ‘not normal’. Normal doesn’t exist!

Originally commissioned by The Bunker Theatre as a critically-acclaimed festival that ran in 2019, My White Best Friend collects 23 letters that engage with a range of topics, from racial tensions, microaggressions and emotional labour, to queer desire, prejudice and otherness. Expressing feelings and thoughts often stifled or ignored, the pieces here transform letter writing into a provocative act of candour.

Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini’s coming-of-age tale smashes together 90s nostalgia, Nigerian family, East London and Sailor Moon to tell the sometimes tricky, often funny truth about growing up with a physical impairment.

In Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how they removed fatphobic influences from their daily life and found self-acceptance in a world where judgement and discrimination are rife.

Part memoir, part social commentary, Happy Fat is a funny, angry and impassioned look at how taking up space in a culture that is desperate to reduce you can be radical, emboldening and life-changing.

Award-winning theatre company PLAY champion a new approach to new writing, with an emphasis firmly on collaboration. They bring together some of the industries’ brightest and best actors, writers and directors, and starting with a completely blank slate, they have just two weeks to collaborate, devise and create brand new PLAYs. This is a selected collection of some of the best PLAYs.