Maya will be in residence as part of Transform at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, 6-18th June. She will be creating work with director Alan Lane (of Slung Low). There will be a short presentation of work created during this residency on Saturday 11th June at 7:45pm. For further details and to download the programme click here.

Red collects poems that engage ‘red’, poems by Black British poets writing with the word “red” in mind—as a kind of leap-off point, a context, a germ—the way something small, minor, or grand might spur a poem. It offers the reader the freedom to come to whatever conclusions they want to about what writing as a poet who is also Black and British might mean.

"Perhaps the most significant thing to be said about Red is that the poets in this volume burst through any constraining label with writing that throbs and pulses and seeps and flows." Margaret Busby

"Maya Chowdhry’s voice springs directly from the soul. It is authentic, sensuous and urgent.   Although dreamlike, her poems are not vague. They rankle with precision and are fuelled by the collision of colonial and family history. Anger gives way to the generosity of love and the open-heart of humour. 
 
Her politics take us from the city to the sea, via barges and bedrooms. From spices to the post office, nothing is too small, too insignificant, to be part of her manifesto for a new, responsible observation."  
Sarah Hymas, Editor, Flax

"Back in August, Flax commissioned three poems and three short fictions from writers Maya Chowdhry, Meg Peacocke, Jane Routh, Jenn Ashworth, Annie Clarkson and Ian Seed. Then we designed posters for them.

The results are stunning (and can be seen on the website).  Below is a link to download the poster - choose from either online quality, or the higher quality so you can download and print your own version."