Working with communities in Pontypridd and Cardiff through creative writing, walk-and-talk workshops, and riverbank storytelling, the project encourages participants to share experiences of environmental change and care. Conversations with ecologists, historians, and folklore specialists will expand the scope of the project during the year. The project will culminate in a hybrid, polyvocal work connecting audiences to the river’s stories, fostering kinship, stewardship, and belonging.
Meet the Writer
Nasia Sarwar-Skuse is a prize-winning writer, editor, and artist whose practice explores place, culture, community, politics, and justice through a decolonial lens. Her work is grounded in long-term, relationship-led partnerships with communities and cultural institutions, often through socially engaged and collaborative practice. She was Lead Artist on Perspective(s), a decolonisation project at St Fagans National Museum of History, working in close partnership with the museum to interrogate representation, power, and institutional narratives. Nasia holds a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from Swansea University, funded by the Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarship (SURES). Her doctoral research focused on colonialism/decolonisation, Partition, migration, and their intersections with archives, gender and memory. She won the 2023 Queen Mary (Wasafiri) Writing Prize and is Co-Editor of Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (404 Ink). Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Wasafiri, gal-dem, Peaks of Colour, Visual Verse, Just So You Know: Essays of Experience (Parthian Books), In The Kitchen (Dahlia Books), and Lumin Press.