Birmingham-born Nubia Assata is already a budding creative with a blossoming future, despite being just 19 years old. She launched her debut book, a poetry anthology titled Silent Screams, at just 16. Released in 2020 during the pandemic, the anthology explores the black experience through the eyes of a teen girl. 

Internationally renowned Criminologist, Educator and Theatre Director Dr Martin Glynn said of Nubia and her work: 

“Despite being young, Nubia displays a maturity of purpose in her writing, combined with an important ‘call to arms’ to anyone who believes in addressing important issues concerning blackness, politics and identity.” 

Nubia widened her literary remit further with her second book, What Is Next For Us?, writing to make black political discourse more accessible to a wider audience. 



In the summer of 2023, she curated The Raining Always Starts When You Go Away, mixed-media artist Dersim Sakalauskas’s second independent exhibition in Portobello, London. Nubia also wrote the supporting art analysis to tie tangible narratives to each piece, to help with the audience’s personal interpretation of the pieces. 

This year Nubia was offered a Soho House Fellowship, and through that has organised events including an exhibition of a photography anthology book she wrote the content for, and a talk with celebrated professor and public speaker Kehinde Andrews.

“I plan to have established my own publishing house and have my own gallery in Accra, Ghana and in my home country of Jamaica.”