Jasmin Allenspach
is an award-winning Swiss writer, educator, and theoretical physicist living in London. Speaking seven languages, she writes in English despite her mother tongue being Swiss German.Most recently, Jasmin’s writing has been nominated for the Forward Prizes 2026, the most influential awards for new poetry in the UK, and recognised by the National Poetry Competition, Magma Poetry Competition, and the Platinum Poetry Prize at the Creative Future Writers’ Award. She is a Young Trustee of the London Library, where she was formerly an Emerging Writer, and a Barbican Young Poet. Performances include major arts venues such as Southbank Centre and Barbican Centre, as well as BBC Radio.With over a decade’s experience in education and community building, Jasmin runs the grassroots writing talk series Peerclass and is currently launching the UK’s first collective for exophonic writers and researchers.Jasmin graduated top of her year with an MSc Physics from ETH Zurich, part of which she spent at Oxford. Her research seeks to unite the largest and smallest scales in our universe, not unlike her writing.When not dissecting sentences or equations, Jasmin dances classical ballet.
Interested in collaborating? Some of the hats Jasmin wears are writer, editor, educator, speaker, moderator. (She’s also quite partial to her grandad’s flat cap.)
Workshops
Hexophonic:
The Exophonic Halloween Workshop
Sunday, 1st November 2026
2-4pm (UK)
Online
£20
How do we build bridges between the living and the dead — and what does it take to burn them?No one better to answer than the bridge builders among writers: multilinguals and exophonics, who interweave and translate between languages, homelands, and identities.This Hallowmas, as the veil between the realms of the living and the dead thins, discover how your multilingualism opens up new paths into writing about the people and places we lost (in translation).Come for otherworldly writing prompts — stay for a community of multilinguals and exophonics, as we write into the beginning of winter together.
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This 2-hour Zoom workshop is best suited to intermediate/advanced writers, but beginners are also welcome. Register by Thursday, 29th October: