Nov 30th Unity Words, Wakefield
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Salena Godden: Author of literary childhood memoir Springfield Road which was successfully crowd funded and
published with Unbound in 2014 and author of Fishing In The Aftermath: Poems 1994-
2014 published with Burning Eye Books, marking twenty years of poetry and performance.
New short fiction Blue Cornflowers was shortlisted for the 4th Estate and Guardian short story
prize in June 2016. Shade is the title of Godden's contribution to The Good Immigrant which was crowd funded in record time and will be published by Unbound on September 22nd 2016.
Salena Godden is one of Britain's foremost poets and a regular performer at literary festivals nationally and internationally. She's appeared as guest and writer for BBC radio programmes such as The Verb, Saturday Live, Loose Ends, Fact To Fiction and as poet in residence on BBC World Service programme Click. Salena has written and presented several arts documentaries, these include Seaside On The Rocks for Channel 4, Stir it up - 50 Years Writing Jamaica and Try A little Tenderness - The Lost Legacy of Little Miss Cornshucks both for BBC Radio 4. Widely recognised as a trailblazer for fellow performers, Salena Godden is a true renaissance woman, her stage presence is distinctive, her performances are electrifying, intensely powerful and full of laughter and warmth.
Salena Godden is one of Britain's foremost poets and a regular performer at literary festivals nationally and internationally. She's appeared as guest and writer for BBC radio programmes such as The Verb, Saturday Live, Loose Ends, Fact To Fiction and as poet in residence on BBC World Service programme Click. Salena has written and presented several arts documentaries, these include Seaside On The Rocks for Channel 4, Stir it up - 50 Years Writing Jamaica and Try A little Tenderness - The Lost Legacy of Little Miss Cornshucks both for BBC Radio 4. Widely recognised as a trailblazer for fellow performers, Salena Godden is a true renaissance woman, her stage presence is distinctive, her performances are electrifying, intensely powerful and full of laughter and warmth.
2016 Books:
Poem
My
Tits Are More Feminist Than Your Tits
published in the Untitled
Two
anthology edited by Neu
Reekie.
London fiction The
Camden Blood Thieves
was published in The
Unreliable Guide to London
with Influx
Press Commissioned
essay Shade
by
Salena Godden is included in The
Good Immigrant
edited by Nikesh
Shukla,
published by Unbound.
And various poems are published in the Word
Life
10th anniversary anthology, published and launched 30th September
2016.
Cahier Africain is a feature film documentary produced by award winning Swiss director Heidi Specogna with English narration by
Salena Godden. The Cahier Africain World Premiere was at Locarno Film Festival August 2016 where
the film was awarded the Premio Zonta Club Locarno award which is given to the film which
promotes a better justice and social ethics by the Jury of the Semaine de la critique, Locarno. Film trailer: https://vimeo.com/130997211
In other film news this year, Salena Godden played a small part in Brakes which premiered at Edinburgh Film Festival 2016. Brakes is an Independent UK debut comedy directed and written by Mercedes Grower and it stars Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt and many familiar faces of British comedy. Film trailer: https://vimeo.com/164458037
In other film news this year, Salena Godden played a small part in Brakes which premiered at Edinburgh Film Festival 2016. Brakes is an Independent UK debut comedy directed and written by Mercedes Grower and it stars Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt and many familiar faces of British comedy. Film trailer: https://vimeo.com/164458037
Waiting For Godden: www.salenagodden.com
BBC archives, poems & songs: https://soundcloud.com/salena-godden
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