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Spoken word poet living just outside of Edinburgh. From the hilarious to hard hitting, Bartlett-McNeil enjoys writing most about the small moments of the every day, the dramatic (or otherwise!) highs and lows of her own rollercoaster ride through life. Highlights include a collaboration with whisky magnate Diageo, supporting Shane Koyczan at his Edinburgh show… Continue reading Georgia Bartlett McNeil

Born and grew up in Hong Kong, Jennifer is the author of several collections including Goldfish (Chameleon Press) and a pamphlet, Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl (Bitter Melon Poetry 2019). Her latest collection, 回家 Letters Home (Nine Arches Press 2020)—which explores the complexities of history, migration and translation—has been named the PBS Wild Card… Continue reading Jennifer Wong 

Khairani Barokka is a Minang-Javanese writer and artist from Jakarta, whose work has been presented widely internationally, and centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis. Among her honours, she has been Modern Poetry in Translation‘s Inaugural Poet-in-Residence, a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change, an Artforum Must-See, UK Associate Artist at Delfina Foundation, and Associate Artist at the National Centre for Writing… Continue reading Khairani Barokka

Nadia Lines is a 20-year-old poet based in Cambridge. She was a Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2019, and has won the Orwell Youth Prize and the Tower Poetry Competition. Her debut pamphlet, Stephen the Phlebotomist, is out May 2022 with Nine Pens Press.

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.

Rishi Dastidar’s poetry has been published by the Financial Times and BBC amongst many others. He is a fellow of The Complete Works, a consulting editor at The Rialto magazine, a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, and chair of writer development organization Spread The Word. A poem from his debut collection Ticker-tape was included in… Continue reading Rishi Dastidar