Ethel Maqeda

Ethel Maqeda is a Sheffield-based Zimbabwean British writer and theatre and creative writing facilitator. With a passion for foregrounding unheard narratives, her work draws inspiration from African women’s experiences, at home and in the diaspora. She writes prose fiction and non-fiction to explore issues of home, black womanhood, African women’s struggles, and triumphs over experiences of racism, colonialism and global exploitation.

Currently, Ethel is working on a project with Forced Entertainment to support and encourage young people to develop their contemporary performance skills and also writing a creative non-fiction collection exploring Southern African women’s practice of Ubuntu in the diaspora.

Ethel’s stories have appeared in various journals, including  Short Fiction: The Visual Literary Journal, Isele Magazine, Wasafiri Magazine, and the University of Sheffield’s creative writing journal Route 57) and in anthologies, Volume-3 (Palm-Sized Press), We are not Shadows (Folkways Press), Wretched Strangers (Boiler House) and Verse Matters (Valley Press).