Category: Participants

Romalyn Ante is a Filipino-British, Wolverhampton-based author. She is co-founding editor of harana poetry, a magazine for poets who write in English as a second or parallel language, and founder of Tsaá with Roma, an online interview series with poets and other artists. Her debut collection is Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto & Windus). She was… Continue reading Romalyn Ante

Lauren is a London based poet and recent graduate, working in the City. She was runner up in the Cosmo Davenport Poetry Prize 2021 and is published in digital zine The Hythe. As a practicing pagan, her love of nature and the esoteric is infused throughout her work.

Alannah is a languages student who loves playing with words. She was a Foyle Young Poet in 2017, and in 2018 went on to win the Young Norfolk Writing Competition. Alannah has been published in The Mays Twenty Nine anthology and Hope x Monsters zine, and is co-editor of a local charity magazine.

Sylvia Legris’ poetry collections include The Hideous Hidden, Pneumatic Antiphonal, and Nerve Squall, winner in 2006 of both the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Pat Lowther Award. Among her other awards are the Cheryl & Henry Kloppenburg Prize for Literary Excellence in 2018, the Lieutenant Governor’s Saskatchewan Artist Award in 2014, and the Canada Council… Continue reading Sylvia Legris

Denise Saul is the author of two pamphlets. White Narcissi (Flipped Eye Publishing) was Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and House of Blue (Rack Press) was PBS Pamphlet Recommendation. She is the recipient of Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for her poem ‘Leaving Abyssinia’. Her first full-length collection, The Room Between Us, will be published… Continue reading Denise Saul

Kitty is in her first year studying Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge. She was commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020 and won the year 12-13 category of the 2021 GDST Laurie Magnus Poetry Prize.

Naush Sabah is Editor and Publishing Director at Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, a print periodical described by the TLS as ‘intellectually lithe and provocative’ with a ‘dynamic and incisive critical section’. Her writing has appeared in The Poetry Review, the TLS, PN Review, The Dark Horse, Modern Poetry in Translation, and elsewhere. Last year, she… Continue reading Naush Sabah

Books by JL Williams include Condition of Fire (Shearsman, 2011), Locust and Marlin (Shearsman, 2014), House of the Tragic Poet (If A Leaf Falls Press, 2016), After Economy (Shearsman, 2017) and Origin (Shearsman, 2022). Published widely in journals, her poetry has been translated into numerous languages. She has read at international literature festivals and venues… Continue reading JL Williams 

Ben Wilkinson was born in the English Midlands and lives in Sheffield. His poems and criticism regularly appear in national publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, The Poetry Review, The Spectator, and the Times Literary Supplement. His debut collection of poems, Way More Than Luck, was published by Seren in 2018 and won a Northern… Continue reading Ben Wilkinson

André Naffis-Sahely is the author of The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin UK, 2017) and the editor of The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (Pushkin Press, 2020). His second collection, High Desert, will be published by Bloodaxe Books in June 2022. He is from Abu Dhabi, but was born… Continue reading André Naffis-Sahely