Polis Loizou

I’m an award-winning Cypriot writer and performer, working across various disciplines. I tend to draw on history, social politics, folklore and ‘queerness’ in all its forms. I’m available for readings, performances, workshops, interviews and chairing book events. Feel free to get in touch!

My debut novel, Disbanded Kingdom, was published in 2018 and long-listed for the Polari First Book Prize. The Way It Breaks is set in my motherland of Cyprus, as is A Good Year, a historical novella inspired by local horror folklore.

I’m also one third of the award-winning fringe theatre troupe The Off-Off-Off-Broadway Company, and a teller of folk tales from around the world.

Having recently forayed into the world of poetry via Nottingham’s GOBS Collective, I’m looking to make work that combines my different practices. This has most recently manifested in the Arts Council-funded I Was A Teenage Bisexual, a one-man horror B movie for the stage that’s a hybrid of theatrical monologue, storytelling, poetry and multimedia.

I live in Nottingham with my husband and cats.