Writer, performer and English PEN workshop facilitator Femi Martin is the founder of Full Circle Projects, an organisation that conducts multi-stage creative initiatives with people from marginalised communities. Ahead of the first Full Circle Projects public event, she discusses the impact of creativity in the lives of the people she works with and in her own life, and shares her hopes for the future of the project.

Read ‘My search for meaning’ here.

Keep up to date with developments at Full Circle Projects, on the website and on Facebook.

Find out more about English PEN’s work in UK prisons.

Listen to Femi Martin’s radio programme, The Achalasia Diaries, on BBC Radio 4.

Read English PEN’s Prison Writing Competition anthologies, including Running to Stand Still.

Meet the writers who lead creative reading and writing workshops for English PEN.