Shalmika Sivakumar is a creative writing graduate (MA, Nottingham Trent University) and an aspiring educator who loves finding romance hiding in mundane moments and turning them into stories. She’s currently writing her debut romance novel, Peach Soda, and reaches for poetry whenever inspiration or a good trip away catches her off guard.
Since moving to Nottingham, she’s found her creative home through Speak Easy, which has kept her close to her writing roots. Two years as social media intern for Nottingham Poetry Festival taught her to tell stories across every kind of media and she’s since grown into her role as Speak Easy’s Comms Coordinator. She’s happiest working behind the scenes!
Nottingham has shaped Shalmika as much as she’s grown alongside it, through festivals, workshops and unforgettable little moments of people coming together. That sense of belonging is exactly what draws her to the Youth Advisory Board: she’s keen to learn how events are built from the ground up, get stuck into the ideas and everything in between that helps creating a space where young creatives feel welcome, connected, and part of something bigger as she does.
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