Winner of several International Writing Fellowships, including the Hawthornden Award, and the Ledig Raholt Fellowship.

Parm Kaur has also been commissioned by NESTA, BBC Radio 3 and the Arts Council of England. Her work has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3, featured on Womens Hour on Radio 4, and featured on BBC 2 Television.

Her latest publication is available in print and digital format.

Public Readings

Parm Kaur has read her work at national and international venues around the world including:

London    

  The Barbican Theatre, Victoria Miro Gallery, Whitechapel Arts Gallery, Poetry Society Café, Southwark Cathedral, Trafalgar Square, Victoria Embankment Gardens, Cobden Club, Battersea Arts Centre. Various schools, colleges, universities, and conferences

International     

Bowery Club, New York (2005), Trans Halle Europe Theatre Conference, Copenhagen (1996), Chez Friends, San Francisco (2005), The Sahitya Academy, Delhi (2001) Mahatma Gandhi International University (2001), IHC Habitat Centre (2001)

Britain                

British Council Literature conference, Swansea University, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Swindon Poetry Festival, Bristol Poetry Festival, The Pegasus theatre, Oxford, Windsor Arts theatre, Contact Theatre Manchester, APNA arts festival, Nottingham. Live theatre, Newcastle, Project One on One, Lancashire, Wolverhampton University, Swansea University –British Council Literature conference

Conferences

TransHalle Europe, European Theatre Conference Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996. Paper and presentation on the relationship between poetry and mixed media theatre performances

Writers Looking East London 1995 – presentation at 2 day conference, organised by Roti Writers

Whose theatre is it anyway?  2004 Wolverhampton University. On panel on politics of performance Form and content   paper on artistic practice presented at International Habitat Centre, Delhi 2001

What is your place? Presentation at a Writers conference at Birbeck College, London.

Talking in Tongues Poetry in Translation –  fundraised for a conference and series of readings across the city in association with the Multicultural Arts Consortium, based at Toynbee Studios, Whitechapel, London.

The importance of poetry  Paper presented at ACE, London Conference, Greenwich 2004

PRESS

Parm was first mentioned in the international press when she was studying, after successfully campaigning for a Womens Safety Bus at her university.

Since then she has been interviewed and featured in local and international press, as well as on live BBC Radio and television, including Radio 4’s Womens Hour and BBC Radio 3 The Verb, BBC2 DNAsia.

Her latest work is available online in digital versions and in print.