While hundreds of youth centres in the UK have been shuttered in the last decade, the doors to Coram’s Fields remain open. This is an ode to the centre and its staff, written by people who are grateful to have passed through. Illustrations by Tamara-Jade Kaz.
Author: Nkenna Akunna
Nkenna is an Igbo playwright and performer from London. Her work has been staged in the UK and USA, and she is a winner of the 2021 Rosa Parks Playwriting Award and 2021 Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award from The Kennedy Center, the 2021 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Playwriting, and the 2021 Papatango Prize. Nkenna is currently an MFA candidate in Playwriting at Brown University and she is represented by Alex Rusher at Independent Talent.
Nkenna has been writing and editing for Skin Deep since 2015, and has lead on our online editorial work, including our written interview series Skin Deep Meets. She is currently based in New York and missing London every day.
Email: nkenna at skindeepmag dot com / Twitter: @nkenna_akunna / Insta: @nkenna_akunna
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