Zahra Airall is a writer,

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activist, film maker and playwright from

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. She is a founding member of the organisation Women of Antigua and is one of their executives. She is the director of the Sugar Apple Theatre in

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. She has written plays such as ''The Forgotten'', which was performed in the Caribbean Secondary Schools Drama Festival by Antigua Girls' High School. Airall is one of the contributors to ''She Sex'', a collaborative book with sections written by different Caribbean women. She also writes short stories such as "The Looking Glass". She wrote a specially commissioned monologue for

Heather Doram Heather Doram is an Antiguan artist, actor, activist and educator, who is the designer of Antigua & Barbuda's national costume. In 2002 she was awarded the Grand Cross of the Most Illustrious Order of Merit (Antigua) in recognition of her lifet ...

Awards

She has won multiple awards at the National Youth Awards (Antigua), including the award for literary arts in 2016.

References

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