Smashing It

Sabrina Mahfouz is a British Egyptian playwright, poet and screenwriter. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the recipient of the 2018 King's Alumni Arts and Culture Award, a Sky Arts Academy Award for Poetry and a Fringe First Award. Mahfouz is currently writing the biopic of legendary `Godfather of Grime', Wiley, for Pulse Films. She is also the co-founder of the Critics of Colour Collective which helps ensure fairer representation in UK arts criticism. Mahfouz edited The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Writer, a Guardian Book of the Year, and has published eight works of drama with Bloomsbury. She lives in London. www.sabrinamahfouz.com

Introduction by Sabrina Mahfouz

Ten Crack Commandments, Madani Younis

Little Rass & Coming in from the Cold, Raymond Antrobus

Resolutions for the Common, Black, Queer, Young Kid (and anyone else who may need it) Travis Alabanza

Strength Thy Name is a Working-Class Woman, Maxine Peake

That's How It Was (an extract), Maureen Duffy

Diversity vs. Representation, Riz Ahmed

My Rockstars, Hassan Hajjaj

Spun: Making a Debut Hit Play, Rabiah Hussain

Stories Not Stats, Kerry Hudson

gutter girls, Joelle Taylor

Playing the Part, Michaela Coel

Am I Working-Class or Am I Just Black?, Emma Dennis-Edwards

Cohort, Fran Lock

In the Boot of a Car, Chimene Suleyman

Pluripotent, Jenni Fagan

London Underground, Courttia Newland

Lyrics to Light the Way, Wiley

Family Question Time, Omar Hamdi

Dear British Theatre, David Loumgair

Box Clever, Monsay Whitney

Money Money Money, Bridget Minamore

A Tailor's Son, Marvell Fayose

All Eyes on Me, Paul McVeigh

Entry Points, Sabeena Akhtar

Jeremy Corbyn At the Doctor's Surgery and Separation Has Its Own Economy, Anthony Anaxagorou

Q&A with Novelist, Malorie Blackman

You Wretched Men, Rebecca Strickson

Broken Biscuits, Salena Godden

I Move, I Tell, Aakash Odedra

The Economy of Sisterhood, Lisa Luxx

Smashing the Class Ceiling, Joelle Taylor

Applying for Arts Funding: A Guide, Sabrina Mahfouz