BIOGRAPHY

Sunnah Khan is a multi-talented award-winning Scottish Pakistani poet, filmmaker and creative facilitator.

Her debut pamphlet I Don't Know How to Forgive You When You Make No Apology For This Haunting was published by Roughtrade Books in 2020. Her poems have appeared in Poetry London and The Rialto and she was shortlisted for the Aesthetic Creative Writing Award 2024. She has performed her work nationally and internationally most recently at The Tate, London and Common Guild, Glasgow.

 

In 2022 she was selected for Moniack Mhors Connect & Collaborate International Residency & performed at Lagos International Poetry Festival. In 2021 she won a commission to reimagine Scottish myth for Historic Environment Scotland and worked  to create and perform a piece in collaboration with a classical dancer and sitar player. She was also commissioned and collaborated with a perfumer on an immersive performance guided by smell for Winter Notes at Chiswick House.

 

As a creative facilitator she has worked with communities across the country. In 2025 she worked with Edinburgh International Book Festival's communites project offering 6 weeks of workshops to inpatients at Royal Edinburgh Hospital CAMHS Unit. In 2022 she was awarded funding to design and run 6 weeks of workshops with teenage survivors of sexual violence and clinical psychologists by Women of the World Festival for whom she curated their work into a film which was showcased at Shameless Festival at Battersea Arts Centre alongside a panel discussion on reclaiming the lost voice in therapeutic space.

 

Formerly part of the poetry collective 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE. The collective came together in 2017 and was published with Femzine (2018) and Roughtrade Books (2020) taking a 5 star sell out show to the Edinburgh Fringe.  The collective opened for T.S Eliot prize winner Roger Robinson at Stoke Newington Literary Festival (2019), performed and responded to the Tate's winter commission (2020), performed at the British Library (2020), London Literary Festival (2021) and were commissioned to create work for Quentin Blake Exhibition at The Foundling Musuem (2021) , performed at festivals including Byline & Prima Donna and were featured in Vogue UK 2020.

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Sunnah is also a writer and freelance documentary director and producer having worked across the BBC and Channel 4 in production and development from Dispatches - Born Homeless, BBC Two’s Generation Gifted  to developing shows for Netflix, and Vice Studios.