![]() JJ Bola reads regularly at shows and festivals across London/UK such as Tongue Fu, Vocals & Verses, Chill Pill, The Round House, Ventnor Fringe, Glastonbury etc as well as Universities SOAS, UCL, Oxford, Lincoln, University of Birmingham, and a mini tour of the US West Coast in 2015/16, LA, Da Poetry Lounge, UCLA, Stanford University and Merrit College in the Bay Area, San Francisco and Oakland, where he won the Oakland Poetry Slam. Creating the increasingly popular adage, ‘ hype your writers like you do you rappers’, he believes that the true purpose of poetry (art) is to expose the reality of this world and how to, most importantly, survive it. JJ Bola’s work is centered on a narrative of empowerment, humanization, healing of trauma as well as discovery of self through art, literature and poetry. He is an MA Creative Writing student (Kit de Waal Scholar), Birkbeck, University of London (2017) and Spread the Word Flight 1000 Associate (2017 ). His debut novel No Place to Call Home (OWN IT, 2017) will be out this June. His third, WORD (2015) is his most comprehensive poetry collection. He has published three books of poetry Elevate (2012) and Daughter of the Sun (2014). ![]() ![]() JJ Bola is a Kinshasa born, London raised writer, poet, and educator. ![]()
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