Priyanka Moorjani, also known as PM, is a writer across disciplines.
Her poetry has been published in Spoken Word London’s Anti-Hate Anthology and the King’s College London’s Creative Writing Society’s Anthology Voices, as well as widely online. In 2020, she won the Queer@King’s Prize for her prose-poem The Persistence of Memory. And in 2019, she placed 3rd in the UK National Slams. She received a first-class distinction in her MA in Creative Writing and Publishing from the University of Lincoln with the Guardian, and was recently a Roundhouse Slam semi-finalist.
Freelance Writing & Projects
Why I stopped wearing foundation via HerCampus
Workshops & Commissions
Low Key Poetry with PM – Harrow Arts Centre (2021)
1-hour show commissioned by Harrow Arts Centre, including a poem about the Centre.
Poetry As Mindfulness: Workshop – Sapphic Writers Collective (2021)
A workshop designed around using poetry as a tool to be present and an alternative form of journalling. Run in collaboration with Sapphic Writers.
WAVES: Commission – Poems by Post (2021)
Poetry commission including video performance & editing.
Poetry & Mental Health: Workshop – Generation Hope (2021)
Delivered a workshop introducing young people to spoken word poetry, encouraging them to write their own pieces about experiences in their life as a tool to improve mental health.
Exhibitions/Shows
To The Future (Virtual Graduation) – HerCampus (2021)
My performance of my poem ‘I feel like an adult when’ was featured as part of HerCampus’s international Virtual Graduation Ceremony for the class of 2021.
Queer Contemporaries – Short Supply, Manchester (2020)
My poem ‘Dear Poetry/This Poem’ was included in an online exhibition ‘Queer Contemporaries’. Included an interview with Short Supply.
Just Being Me – Migration Matters Festival, Sheffield (2022)
I performed my 45 minute show, ‘Just Being Me’ at the festival, opening for Lemn Sissay.
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