Claire Harnett-Mann is a Birmingham-based writer raised on council estates now largely demolished. Her current work includes Crossing Place, an eco-industrial pamphlet shaped by working-class life, gendered space, and the afterlives of erasure in Britain’s built environment. Her essay Built to Forget You appears in Bread Alone (Indie Novella, 2026). https://claireharnettmann.com/ Insta: @‌clairehmwriter Bluesky: @‌clairehmwriter.bsky.social

Maria Jastrzębska was born in Warsaw, Poland and came to the UK as a child. Her fifth collection is Small Odysseys (Waterloo Press). She co-edited Queer in Brighton (New Writing South). Her work is translated into Polish and Romanian. She translated Justyna Bargielska’s The Great Plan B (Smokestack Books). https://mariajastrzebska.com

Aoife Lyall is a poet and printmaker. Her collection Mother, Nature (Bloodaxe, 2021), was shortlisted for the Scottish First Book Award 2021, and The Day Before was published in 2024. Her poems have inspired art, music and sculpture across the UK and beyond. Her work focuses on queerness, motherhood, emigration, and legacy. BramblewoodStudioArt Insta: @‌aoife_lyall Bluesky: @‌aoifelyall.bsky.social

Jade Mutyora is a York based poet and writer of fiction for children and adults. Jade’s poetry appears in Fourteen poems, Spelt Magazine, SINK, Lolwe and others. Her fiction won Nottingham Writers Studio’s 2020 short story competition, was shortlisted for Northern Writers’ Awards in 2023 and 2024, and Longlisted for the 2024 SI Leeds Literary Prize. Insta: @‌jademutyorawriter Bluesky: @‌JadeMutyora.bsky.social

Katrina Naomi is the author of Battery Rocks, (Seren, 2024), which won the Arthur Welton Award and the Holyer an Gof award for Poetry. Katrina is a recipient of the Keats-Shelley Prize. Her poetry has appeared on Poems on the Underground and on BBC Radio 4. She recently published the pamphlet dance as if (Verve, 2025). Before poetry, Katrina worked in human rights. She has a PhD from Goldsmiths and lives in Cornwall. www.katrinanaomi.co.uk Insta: @‌katrinanaomipoet

Ilse Pedler lives in Cumbria and works part time as a veterinary surgeon. She has a pamphlet and collection with Seren and a new collection, We'll Meet You There, a collaboration with poets Alice Willitts and Hilary Watson with Dialect Press. She is the poet in residence at Sidmouth Folk festival, facilitates Dove Cottage Poets at Wordsworth Grasmere and is one of the editors of Bending the Arc a magazine of Thrutopian writing. www.ilsepedler.com

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Teddy Webb is a poet, essayist, and graphic designer based in Brighton. Her work focuses on themes of lesbian culture and reclaiming our connection to the natural world under capitalism, and has been published in The Seaford Review, Writer’s Hour Magazine, and Butch-Femme Press. She is one of four poets on the London Library Emerging Writers Programme for 2025/2026. acrossthestacks.substack.com Insta: @‌soundssofwords

Jessie Williams is a freelance journalist and writer focused on international affairs, humanitarian issues, women’s rights, and culture. Her reporting has taken her around the world, from Ukraine to Syria, Iraq to Armenia. She has been published in The Guardian, TIME Magazine, The Sunday Times, New Lines Magazine, Financial Times, and others. Her writing has been recognised in the British Journalism Awards, the Wallace House Center for Journalist’s Livingston Award, and Spread the Word’s London Short Story Prize, among others. www.jessiewilliams.co.uk Insta: @‌jessiewill