Amahra Spence. Photo credit: Sharron Wallace
Amahra Spence said, “I have spent most of my working life building infrastructure and creating opportunities for other Black artists, writers and creators. But writing was always my first love and I’m often stealing moments to write around the fullness of life, community organising and motherhood. With the Roland Rees Bursary, I can write. I can gift myself time. I can continue in the lineage of Black writers who bring about new worlds in which we get to exist in our wholeness. To be recognised by my peers and enabled to do this is the honour of a lifetime.”
