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