The actress and writer Marsha Hunt established the Saga Prize in 1995 to recognise the literature emerging from 'indigenous black Britons' experiences.
[5][6] The prize ran for four years and closed in 1998 [7] Some Kind of Black (1997) centred on the youthful adventures of its British-born Nigerian protagonist, Dele, in London.
Traynor described her novel as "a semi-autobiographical account of a foster child on a white northern working class council estate and her experience of hospital life as a nurse in Liverpool.
Her play A Cold Snap was placed second in the 2008 Alfred Fagon Award,[15] and was subsequently produced in 2011 as Keeping Mum, at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre as part of Write Now 2.
[16] Bernard and the Cloth Monkey was republished in 2022 as part of a collection of rediscovered works celebrating Black Britain curated by Bernardine Evaristo.