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