Sabeena Akhtar

Sabeena is a writer, editor and the Festival Coordinator of Bare Lit, the UK’s principal festival celebrating remarkable writers in the diaspora. She is a co-founder of the Primadonna Festival which spotlights the work of women writers, of Bare Li Kids, the UK’s first children’s festival showcasing the work of writers of colour. A keen advocate for Partition commemoration, in 2017 she partook in the BBC’s coverage of the seventieth anniversary of Indian independence and, alongside her daughter, filmed a programme on the Partition of India for children. She has since been invited to discuss the subject on various media outlets.

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