Leeds Young Authors

Leeds Young Authors Creative writing program for young writers and mentorship training. The lead in poetry slam and live performance in the UK with the Sunday practise

The project was developed with the aim to stimulate a love for poetry and literature as a whole among inner-city young people. LYA now meet weekly at the Host Leeds Media Centre in Chapeltown, where the group was originally started, to study poetry, word power and performance skills. Formed in September 2003 by Khadijah Ibrahiim, LYA have been performing their brand of hard-hitting, fast paced poe

try not only locally, but as the first non-Americans in the Brave New Voices competition in Los Angeles 04, San Fransisco 05, New York 06, San Jose 07 & Washington DC 08, & we were 2nd place winners in the hometown of slam poetry CHICAGO 09!! LYA were the 1st UK team to be selected to be part of the BNV future Corp in Los Angeles 2010 & also represented in San Francisco 2011. Our work has extended across the UK, Gambia and the Caribbean...

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