Pauline Omoboye has led on Identity Young writer’s, supporting and creating opportunites for performance. She has been a member of Manchester black women’s writer groups Blackscribe, Nailah, Arrival, Stride and Sista Talk. She has appeared in the local press, on radio, television and in many theatres and schools throughout the region. She was voted the judges’ winner of the Manchester Stage to Page Poetry Competition in 2004 which led to the publication of her first collection of poetry, Purple Mother.