Lindy Newns lives in Manchester, UK where they can be seen jogging along the Bridgewater Canal trying to rhyme. They appear at open mics around the city and facilitate Mostly Manchester, an online Stanza group. […]

Konstandinos (Dino) Mahoney lives between London and the Greek island of Aegina. He won publication of his second collection, THE GREAT COMET OF 1996 Foretells, in the Live Canon Collection Competition 2021. His first collection, […]

Kristina Diprose co-runs the Rhubarb open mic in Shipley, and co-edited its anthologies Un/Forced and Seconds. She won the inaugural Oxford Canal Festival poetry competition in 2024, has been shortlisted in the Wolverhampton Literature Festival, Ginkgo Prize and […]

Inga Piotrowska is a Polish poet based in Manchester, UK. Her debut poetry collection was published in Poland in 2018, marking the beginning of her literary journey. In 2023, she was shortlisted for The Bridport […]

Mark Connors is an award winning writer, creative writing facilitator and publisher from Leeds, UK. Mark has had over 300 poems published in magazines and anthologies. His debut poetry pamphlet, Life is a Long Song was published by OWF Press in 2015.

Kathy Miles lives in West Wales. Her work has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, and her fifth full poetry collection, Vanishing Point, was published by Palewell Press in April 2024.  She was the winner of the 2024 Frogmore Poetry Prize, and is a previous winner of the Bridport Prize.

Safa Maryam is a poet and doctor from the North. Her work has appeared in Dear Damsels, Mslexia, Medical Women, and Anthropocene amongst others. Most recently her work has been anthologised in Thresholds (Butcher’s Dog Publishing 2024) and COAL (Smith|Doorstop 2024).

Jen Feroze lives by the sea in Essex. Her work has appeared in publications including Acumen, Under the Radar, Butcher’s Dog, Poetry Wales, Black Iris, Magma, And Other Poems and Berlin Lit.

Rachel Cleverly is a poet, playwright and producer. Her debut pamphlet, Prickle, is forthcoming with flipped eye publishing. She is a Barbican Young Poet and an Old Vic Theatre Maker.

Tim Relf’s work has appeared in such titles as The London Magazine, The Rialto, Under the Radar, The Interpreter’s House, Banshee, Acumen, Bad Lilies, Stand, The Spectator and The Friday Poem.

Debi Knight is a Neuro-diverse poet and short story writer based in West Yorkshire who considers herself a lifelong student. She writes the life she sees and feels around her – exploring connections between humans, nature and the effects of modern life on all.

Jane Burn is an award-winning poet, artist, poet and hybrid writer. She is a working-class person with autism. Her work is widely published and anthologised. Her current collection, The Apothecary of Flight, is published by Nine Arches. 

The final collection in Ralph Dartford’s ‘Recovery Trilogy’ sees the poet meditating on the tragic death of his beloved brother, Joseph, and how he lived in the mythical house of England: a nation of waving flags seen through soft focus sunlight.

Penny Sharman started writing poetry in her fifties. She is inspired by wild landscapes and relationships between the seen and unseen. She is a published poet, photographer, artist and therapist. Penny has an MA in Creative Writing from Edge Hill University, has had poems published in The North, Mslexia, Candlestick Press and many others.

Caleb Parkin, Bristol City Poet 2020 – 22, has poems in The Guardian, The Rialto, The Poetry Review and was guest poet on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please. He has three pamphlets.

Tommy Sissons is a novelist, poet, playwright and educator based in London. He is the author of the polemic ‘A Small Man’s England’, and the novel ‘Cautious, A Boat Adrift’.

Andrea Holland has two collections of poetry, ‘Broadcasting’, which won the Norfolk Commission for Poetry and ‘Borrowed’ (Smith/Doorstop) a first-stage winner in The Poetry Business contest. Individual poems appear in journals and anthologies.

Wendy Dossett lives in rural Eryri. She’s fascinated by the experiences classified in some forms of Buddhism as craving, desire and aversion. She’s drawn to earth-bound and narrative sources of healing and hope that fully acknowledge the realities of suffering and inadequacy.

Matt Gilbert is a freelance copywriter. Originally from Bristol, he currently gets his fill of urban hills in South East London. He has had poems published by Acumen, Atrium, Finished Creatures and The Storms among others. He also writes a blog about place, books, poetry and other distractions at richlyevocative.net.

Hannah Stone lives in Leeds, where she is involved in various community poetry events, including as convenor of the poet-composers forum for Leeds Lieder, compere of the monthly Wordspace open mic in Horsforth and free lance work as poet-theologian for Leeds Church Institute as well as events at East Leeds Community FM Radio.

Steve Denehan lives in Kildare, Ireland with his wife Eimear and daughter Robin. He is the author of two chapbooks and five poetry collections. Winner of the Anthony Cronin Poetry Award and twice winner of Irish Times’ New Irish Writing, his numerous publication credits include Poetry Ireland Review and Westerly.

Joe Williams is a writer and performing poet from Leeds. His latest book is ‘The Taking Part’, a short collection of poems on the theme of sport and games, published by Maytree Press.

Hilary (she/her) was born, raised and lives in the Far North of England – though she has been to other places. She writes fiction and poetry for children and adults, runs workshops and does collaborative projects.

Rob Walton is a working class writer from Scunthorpe, who now lives in Whitley Bay.  His poems, flash fictions and short stories for adults and children have appeared in various anthologies and magazines in the UK, USA, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand. 

Carson Wolfe (they/she) is a Mancunian poet and winner of New Writing North’s Debut Poetry Prize (2023). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming with Rattle, The Rumpus, The North, New Welsh Review, and Evergreen Review.

Di Slaney lives in Nottinghamshire where she runs livestock sanctuary Manor Farm Charitable Trust and independent publisher Candlestick Press. She was the winner of The Plough Poetry Prize 2022 and Slipstream Open Poetry Competition 2023.

Rosie Garland is a writer and singer with post-punk band The March Violets, Rosie Garland has a passion for language nurtured by public libraries. Her poetry collection ‘What Girls do the Dark’ (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the Polari Prize.

Sam Szanto lives in Durham. Her collaborative pamphlet, ‘Splashing Pink’ was recently published by Hedgehog Press and is a Poetry Book Society Winter 2023 Pamphlet Choice. Her pamphlet ‘This Was Your Mother’ was one of the winners of the 2023 Dreich Slims Contest and will be published in 2024.