Miriam CALLEJA

Miriam Calleja is a bilingual poet and Maltese wordsmith. Her poetry collections, Pomegranate Heart (EDE Books, 2015), Inside Skin (EDE Books, 2016), and Stranger Intimacy (Stamparija Reljic, 2020) have been described as ‘fresh’, ‘intimate’, and ‘sensual’. She has been published in a number of journals and poetry anthologies worldwide, such as For the Silent by Indigo Dreams Publishing, Please Hear What I’m Not Saying by Fly on the Wall Press, and Magic by The Gloucestershire Poetry Society. Her work has been translated into Slovene, Greek, Romanian, French, Norwegian, German, and Frisian.

In 2017, she was recognised by the Network of Young Women Leaders as a leading female artist in Malta. In 2018 she received an honourable mention for the national poetry competition Mons. Amante Buontempo. In 2018 she was long-listed for the Troubadour International Prize. She has read at events in Malta, the UK, Italy, Germany, San Francisco, and New York.

She dedicates her time to facilitating creative writing workshops, performing and writing for performances or publications. Miriam believes that poetry and prose are tools for storytelling that encourage unity, connection, and understanding. She has great faith in collaboration as a key to communication.

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  • LUCA School of Arts
  • Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU
  • Romanian Cultural Institute in Brussels
  • Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the Kingdom of Belgium
  • Orfeu - Livraria Portuguesa
  • LOFT 58
  • It Skriuwersboun
  • Ambassade du Luxembourg à Bruxelles
  • Embassy of Ireland
  • Greenland Representation to the European Union
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Estonia to the European Union
  • Camões Instituto de Cooperação e Língua Portugal
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Union
  • Lithuanian Culture Institute
  • Instituto Cervantes Brussels
  • Mission of the Faroes to the EU
  • Yunus Emre Institute
  • Greenlandic Writers Association
  • Embassy of Sweden
  • Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren
  • Danish Cultural Institute
  • Ville de Bruxelles
  • Hungarian Cultural Institute Brussels
  • Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  • Polish Institute - Cultural Service of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brussels
  • Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity
  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura
  • Scottish Government EU Office
  • Spain Arts and Culture - Cultural and Scientific Service of the Embassy of Spain in Belgium
  • Czech Centre Brussels
  • Austrian Cultural Forum
  • Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Belgium
  • Swedish Institute
  • Commission européenne
  • MuntPunt
  • Leeuwarden Europan Capital of Culture 2018
  • Embassy of Andorra
  • Etxepare Euskal Institutua