Poetry Competition 2026 Awards & Book Launch

Name: Poetry Competition 2026 Awards &amp; Book Launch
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Event Date: October 31, 2026

Join us on Saturday 31 October, 5-9pm at Stephens House & Gardens (Drawing Room).

Special guest: Deputy Mayor of Barnet, Councillor Humayune Khalick.

Tickets: £15, Children 10-15: £5, under 10 free.

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Poetry Competition 2026 Awards & Book Launch

Join us on Saturday 31 October, 5-9pm at Stephens House & Gardens (Drawing Room), 17 East End Road, Finchley, London N3 3QE.

Hosted by The Transforming Words Foundation
Special guest: Deputy Mayor of Barnet, Councillor Humayune Khalick

Programme

5-5.45pm: Refreshments, open mic session.
6-8pm: Book launch, awards ceremony, poetry readings, live music, guest speakers, raffle.
8-9pm: Book signing, new book sales.

Nearest tube: Finchley Central • Buses: 13, 125, 143, 460 and 326
Limited car parking available nearby.

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.