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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Poems from the Black in White Poetry Competition 2024. Contains 38 new poems by Charlotte Shyllon and 29 contributing poets, including 3 guest poets’ poems and the 27 winning and highly commended poems from the Black in White Poetry Competition 2024. Foreword by Dr Dawn Edge, Professor of Mental Health & Inclusivity and Academic Lead…
Sharing Stories, Shaping Societies
The Girl From Niue
Poems from the Black in White Poetry Competition 2024. Contains 38 new poems by Charlotte Shyllon and 29 contributing poets, including 3 guest poets’ poems and the 27 winning and highly commended poems from the Black in White Poetry Competition…
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Poems from the Black in White Poetry Competition 2024.
Contains 38 new poems by Charlotte Shyllon and 29 contributing poets, including 3 guest poets’ poems and the 27 winning and highly commended poems from the Black in White Poetry Competition 2024. Foreword by Dr Dawn Edge, Professor of Mental Health & Inclusivity and Academic Lead for ‘Race’, Religion and Belief, University of Manchester.
Black in White shares poems and opens minds about racism in the workplace and childhood. It was established in 2020 when, stirred by George Floyd’s killing, Charlotte Shyllon wrote a book of poems called Black in White about some of her experiences of racism. Black in White now runs an annual poetry competition open to all people of colour and allies to elicit their stories. So far, it has published four anthologies, including all the winning and highly commended poems. The Girl from Niue is the fifth book in the series, featuring poems from the 2024 competition, and is named after the winning poem in the workplace category.
Author Charlotte Shyllon
Charlotte is a senior business professional with nearly three decades’ experience working primarily in communications and business development. Following the killing of George Floyd in 2020, she wrote her first book of poems, Black in White, to share some of her experiences of racism in the corporate world. She then ran a poetry competition for four years to elicit other people’s stories about workplace and childhood racism.
In 2024, she set up The Transforming Words Foundation to expand this work and now uses her diversity and inclusion expertise to bring insight and illumination to these important issues. Charlotte is a British Sierra Leonean and is mum to two adult children.
