Ghanaian poet, speaker and cultural architect Emma Ofosua will tour three literary venues across England this September, beginning in Nottingham on 12 September, moving to London on 17 September, and concluding in West Yorkshire on 26 September. She will headline the Optimist’s Incomplete event at the D.H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum in Eastwood, Nottingham, where she will deliver a performance staged by Sevhage. The next stop is Big Mouth Poetry’s open‑mic spoken word night at The Village Table in Croydon, London, where she will headline the session from 6:30pm to 10:00pm. The tour will finish at the Old School Room in Haworth, where she will sit on a panel with fellow writers Tabitha Bast, Barsa Ray and Priscilla Adepa as part of the Literary Sisters from Accra to Bradford event at the Brontë Women’s Writing Festival.
“Poetry is the cell of all art forms,” Ofosua said, “and gives language to our shared human experience.” Her appearances reflect her ongoing engagement with West African literary and cultural tradition on international stages, following her participation in the Literary Sisters Residency that paired writers across Accra and Bradford in dialogue with the works of the Brontë sisters.
Ofosua, founder and executive director of Tuniq Africa and the All African Women Poetry Festival, and managing editor of Hadithi Magazine, has built literary infrastructure across the African literary landscape for over half a decade. She was named among the 100 top writers and received the Most Promising Writer Award from Pa Gya!, sponsored by the EU Delegation to Ghana. Her poem “Reclamation” was nominated for Best of the Net in 2024, and her debut fiction appeared in the Perfect Place Anthology (Smartline Publishers, 2025).
She is also set to release her debut spoken word album, Mid‑Shed, in October 2026, adding a recording‑artist dimension to her UK appearances.
