Zena Edwards

It’s been ten years since we last welcomed Zena to Hastings Storytelling Festival – she is a writer, poet performer and educator whose 30 year career explores storytelling, environmental poetics and urban resilience.

Founder of Poets Built It and the Nature Persists Poetry Project, she is a leading EcoPoet whose advocacy includes work with Culture Declares and Julie’s Bicycle.

An interdisciplinary artist, she has collaborated with creatives including Theaster Gates, Ackroyd and Harvey and Akram Khan, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem
Performed in 2023.

7pm
Hastings Museum & Art
Gallery, Bohemia Road
TN34 1ET

Tickets: £7

Book online:
https://www.hastingsstoryfest.org.uk/2026