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For Black History month, 100 Voices brings you one of our newest contributors, Natalie Twum-Barima who shares her poem Windrush. In it, Natalie voices the people behind the journey - from Africa, via the Middle Passage and to Britain in a movin
Women's Prize longlistee Yvonne Battle-Felton shares a sneak peak of her piece for the 100 voices book, now funding on Unbound.
Women's Prize longlistee Yvonne Battle-Felton shares a sneak peak of her piece for the 100 voices book, now funding on Unbound.
"I knew I had to do it. Even if it felt like I had nothing to contribute, I would have to think of something. "Writer and editor of the 100 Voices for 100 Years project, Miranda Roszkowski realises how hard it is to talk about achievements, and
"Life continues to throw challenges and obstacles at me. But I know I can deal with them."For Louise Houghton her path was very clear from the age of four - she was destined to be in front of the camera. Her ambition, drive and a bit of luck ha
"If you just teach one person something positive, then it's worth it."When costume coordinators Amy Trend, Hannah Monkley and Amy Towle dressed as Suffragettes for the Women's March in 2017 they didn't expect the fantastic response they got, or
"If you just teach one person something positive, then it's worth it."When costume coordinators Amy Trend, Hannah Monkley and Amy Towle dressed as Suffragettes for the Women's March in 2017 they didn't expect the fantastic response they got, or
"A desert country seemed the place that best reflected our emotions."After losing their daughter, writer Sandra Arnold and her husband took to travelling to process their grief and found themselves Oman. For 100 Voices for 100 years Sandra shar
"I felt worthless, stupid and incapable. I can’t apply those words to myself anymore. "Elisabeth Alain shares her story Bruise, and explains how she has let the wounds of a past relationship heal through her writing.
"Mr Smith begrudgingly wrote ‘Good Effort’ at the bottom of the paper. I thought nothing of it."Miriam Elin Jones didn't have a habit of speaking up, until a particularly bitter injustice in sociology class changed her whole attitude. A funny a
"You’re never too old to become a fighter."Jane Riekemann is... a writer, a co-founder of a short story prize and a teacher. She didn't ever think she would add campaigner to that list but two years ago she became one. In a warm piece she talks
“I was going to try. One last time.”Emily Garside could never shake the idea that September meant new starts. So in September 2017 she took a huge leap into the unknown.For 100 voices for 100 years, she shares the story of what happens after yo
"Not a superwoman. Just a single mum."Writer Lesley Traynor reads a storming poem about the things she has achieved, as an "ordinary" woman.
"She picks up the phone and screams “Good morning my friend” before she knows who’s calling."For performer and writer Jessica Hayles there is one person who she knows inspired all of her own achievements. In a glorious piece for our Bank Holida
"I hid for a while, a satisfied Gollum, behind my precious pen."Writer and erstwhile actress Eloise Williams has always hated the sound of her voice. She has gone out of her way to hide it, choosing a literary career where she thought she was s
"She was my biggest champion. She loved and cared for me enough to be brutally honest about my work."When writer Debbi Voisey lost her friend Donna, she lost a soul mate. But it started a process of self-discovery for Debbi which she talks abou
“I found people who were eager to tell stories, not just perform.”Beth Stevens set up her blog All The Worlds A Stage at the age of 18 but it was during a production of Blue Stockings she found a community of female theatre makers that inspired
"No one is going to walk down the streets of your council estate and see your inner brilliance, and whisk you away. Don’t worry, you’ll save yourself."Alex Keelan gives herself some life lessons in a letter to her younger self, and in doing so
"I’ve often gained confidence in things I find difficult to do by organising events around them."When Jude Higgins retired at 60 it didn't remotely occur to her to stop creating opportunities to get people together and share stories. In a beaut
"I knew I had something to contribute."Sarah Jones was a student, coming to terms with a future as a teenage single mum when she became inspired to enter politics. She went on to become the first female MP ever in Croydon. She shares her story
"It’s not unusual to go through a phase of intense imaginative play - but my phase continues today, and I’m 35. "For performer, producer and Co-Director of Croydon Cycle Theatre Vanessa Hammick, performing has been her life-blood since she was
"I’m sure you’ve heard the expression Life Imitates Art..."Writer Rebecca Rouillard was thrilled when she won a prestigious award for a book in which one of the main characters has a degenerative condition. When she woke up with a numbness in h
"I'm just a mum."In a moving, honest and occasionally tongue in cheek poem, poet Antonia Seaward considers what it is to be "Just A Mum."
“In teacher training you’re encouraged to create a persona - turned out mine was Mary Poppins."After years as a jobbing actor, Olivia Chappell decided to get a Real Job. She excelled at it; and then she was transferred to a new school...A story
"It still troubles me whether it's a story I have the right to tell."When Helen Rye created a piece of flash fiction adapted from a painstakingly researched monologue in a community theatre piece she’d written she didn’t suspect it would catapu
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