Tanya // Write To Life

Tanya is another member of ‘Write to Life’ – the creative writing and performance group of Freedom from Torture (established in 1997, the longest-running refugee-writing group in Britain, and the only one specifically for survivors of torture.) She explains what writing means to her, how it helps the healing process – and she reads some of her work: her piece ‘Surviving Covid – and then the brook dried up’. And earlier in the programme, her poem called  ‘Treasure’.

The Write to Life creative writing group have some great projects up on the site including:  alphabet of poverty, An A-Z of Poverty a really powerful description of the asylum process – and a series called ‘Lost And Found’ – a combination of speech, song and recorded sound performed by a cast from Iran, Cuba, Uganda and Burundi.  

And again you can find all these at Freedom From Torture.

A huge thanks to Tanya for being part of this episode, and to the Arts Council of Ireland for their continuing support.