Jacqueline Ennis-Cole open-mic and book launch event. Private Invite Only

Jacqueline received a Spread The Word Commission Award in Autumn 2023. Recent readings include Lewisham Literature Festival, Autistic Shuffle, Devereux and with Poem Brut at Rich Mix and a Hundred Years Gallery. They received an Arts Council Project Award in 2024, to co-facilitate a series of free poetry workshops at CLR james Library and VFD for LGBTQIA+ communities and to produce a diverse and intersectional poetry anthology hatred is a bitter fruit. 

The co-host will be Venus - a martial artist, writer and performer from Harlesden. A sex worker for many years, her work is a reflection of her experiences with unconventional notions of power, strength, sensuality, subversion and the concept of embodiment as knowledge. She is a recent graduate with a BA in Politics, Philosophy and History, and is founder of Sex and Rage, a sex worker led organisation resisting stigma and shame through sex education. 

Our other co-host will be our own Lyall Hakaraia.