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Rosalind Adam is a Leicester, UK, writer. She has had many women’s magazine stories and articles published and has co-ordinated several Heritage Lottery funded writing projects. These include Jewish Voices, a memory-based project which resulted in Rosalind’s first published book in 2008. In the same year she had a picture book, Bathtime Rap, published by Franklin Watts. Using her history background, she went on to write two children’s history books, the most recent being The Children’s Book of Richard III. Her poetry has been published in a number of anthologies, including Welcome to Leicester, and on online poetry sites. In 2018 she won the G. S. Fraser poetry prize for Fresh Canvas and was awarded a distinction for her MA in Creative Writing at The University of Leicester. Rosalind blogs at rosalindadam.blogspot.com and tweets as @RosalindAdam. 

Sharon Black is from Glasgow and lives in a remote valley of the Cévennes mountains in France. Her poetry is published widely and she has won prizes for her work including the Guernsey International Poetry Competition 2019 and The London Magazine Poetry Prizes 2019 and 2018. She has published 4 full collections of poetry and a pamphlet, Rib (Wayleave, 2021). Her latest collections are The Last Woman Born on the Island (Vagabond Voices, 2022), set in Scotland and exploring the landscapes and heritage of her home country, and The Red House (Drunk Muse, 2022), set in her adopted homeland of the Cévennes. Since 2016 she has been editor of Pindrop Press. www.sharonblack.co.uk

Wendy Brandmark writes short stories and novels. She won the Bridport prize for the short story, and her collection of short stories, He Runs the Moon: Tales from the Cities, was longlisted for the Edgehill Prize. Her stories have appeared widely in journals in Britain and America including Riptide Journal, North American Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Stand Magazine. Her last novel, The Stray American, was shortlisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. She has had writing residencies at the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, and has been awarded a fellowship at Hawthornden. She’s a tutor on the Oxford MSt in Creative Writing. She is working on a new collection of short stories. 

Jason Brennan returned to his hometown of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, after living in Melbourne Australia. While in Australia he hosted a poetry workshop and had poems published in a number of magazines, including the literary and cultural  journal ‘Overland’ (issue 177),  and contributed two poems for the Going Down Swinging CD (issue23), one of which was a collaboration with Australian screen composer and producer Cornel Wilczek. He was interviewed on Melbourne Triple R’s, radio show ‘Aural Text’ by the broadcaster and writer Alicia Sometimes and also read one of his poems out, live on air.  His work featured in award nominated animator Nik Kallincos’ ‘Restriction Site Poetics’ animation. He has been published in a number of UK magazines including, Anon the anonymous submission magazine. He is currently working on a collection of poems about historical landmarks in his home town. 

Sean Chapman is a British writer living in Cornwall beside the capricious Atlantic Ocean and amongst the blur of a blue Whippet and a red fox Labrador. His prolonged and wayward adolescence included working in a Taiwanese astrophysics department, on a Salford mental health ward, running a rum bar on the Liverpool docks and in a Manchester disability support office, before washing ashore in a Cornish surf shop. Between daydreams of cowboy adventures and surfing escapades he writes poems, which have appeared or are forthcoming in Marble Poetry, Raceme, Squawk Back, Prole, Dreich, Fenland Poetry Journal, Quince, The Pomegranate London, The Opiate, Allegro, Anti-Heroin Chic and others. He can be found on twitter: @seanchapman_1 

Judy Darley is a British fiction writer and journalist who can't stop writing about the fallibilities of the human mind. Her stories are widely published by literary anthologies, magazines and websites, including Cypress, The Mechanics' Institute Review and The Cabinet of Heed. She is Flash Fiction Editor at Reflex Press. Judy is the author of short story/flash fiction collections Sky Light Rain (Valley Press) and Remember Me To The Bees (Tangent Books). You can find her at http://www.skylightrain.com; https://twitter.com/JudyDarley. 

I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and have lived in Kildare for the last twenty years or so. I've had lots of different jobs from programmer to corporate detective and been terrible at all of them. I have always enjoyed writing but only started submitting around three years ago so I was very late to the party. It's gone alright though and I've a few books and chapbooks behind me. Now it's just a case of waiting for the billions to start rolling on in. 

 Mike Doherty. Born in 1954. Can I really be that old? The last year of rationing after the Second World War. I seem to have lived through a lot but always looked within for the words to explain my condition. We are islands assailed at every turn by conflict. Poetry has been my comfort and comforter and other peoples words have been my inspiration. Faith and love ultimately will get me through the prose of life. Poetry is and will be, the blessing. 

Daniela Esposito was born in South London. She is studying Screenwriting at The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She has been published in Mono, Tears in the Fence, Bandit Fiction, the Templeman Review, Dream Noir and Writer's Block magazine. In the spring, her work will be published in Litro (US) and The Stand. She has also been long-listed for the Bridport Short Story Prize and the Brick Lane Short Story Prize. 

I am a writer of poetry and creative non-fiction from Halifax, West Yorkshire. In 2019, I won the Cassandra Jardine Memorial Prize with The Telegraph, and in 2020 I won two awards in the Walter Swan Poetry Prize. At present, I am studying an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths University, funded by the Isaac Arthur Green scholarship. My current work-in-progress is a narrative non-fiction about deafness and dementia. 

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Amy Gordon’s family lived in London when she was very young and one her earliest memories is of the London fog of 1952. She has published ten books for young readers, among them When JFK Was My Father (Houghton Mifflin) and The Gorillas of Gill Park(Holiday House) After a career of teaching theater skills to middle school students, she pursued an MFA in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in the Massachusetts Review and the Blue Nib, among other places. She published her first chapbook, Deep Fahrenheit, in 2019 with Prolific Press. Gordon currently lives in Western Massachusetts on the Connecticut River. 

Sheena Hussain is a British Pakistani poet, essayist and cancer advocate from the UK. A non-practising immigration lawyer who turned to poetry after receiving a cancer diagnosis. Subsequently, she self-published a collection of poems, whilst recovering, titled “Memories of a Poet, My Road My Recovery”; her latest book includes “Covid-19 Poems from a Pandemic”.  She is the founder of Poem:99, a national children’s poetry competition.  She is widely anthologised.  She is a member of Inscribe-Peepal Tree Press’s writer’s development programme and the recipient of the DYCP Award from ACE, 2021.  You can find her at www.poetrybysheenapoetrybyname.com  on Instagram @poetrybysheena 

Terence John lives in Scotland and writes full time, as he has done since studying politics and philosophy,  working in the City of London and for the Ministry of Agri-culture in Wales.   He was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize  2018  and  also the Poetry Society's Geoffrey Dearmer Award 2019.His poems have appeared else-where,  or are  forthcoming, in Orbis, The London Magazine, Acumen, Glasgow Re--view  Of  Books,  Stand Magazine,  The North,  The Poetry Review,  Sarasvati,  Blue Moon Literary and Art Review  (USA), Poetry Salzburg Review  and regularly online throughout the USA at medium.com 

Emma Jones is a freelance art and non-fiction writer. Emma was previously Curatorial Assistant at Tate Modern, where she specialised in photography. Curatorial credits include solo displays on Graciela Iturbide (2019), Ernest Cole (2020) and Sejla Kameric (2022). Recent writing credits inlcude contributions to the book publication Photography: A Feminist History (2021) and the magazine L'essenzial Studio Journal V.4 (2022).  

 Joshua Jones is a queer, autistic writer and artist from Llanelli, South Wales, now residing in Cardiff. He has been published by Poetry Wales, Broken Sleep Books, Welsh Arts Review, and more. He has been commended by the Poetry Society, shortlisted for the Rhys Davies Short Story Prize, and came third in the Reflex Fiction Flash Fiction Prize, Winter 2021. His 'poetic installations' cover various mediums including video, paint, text and objects, and have been exhibited at Glynn Vivian Gallery, Turner House, Umbrella Gallery and others. He is the Director of Dyddiau Du, a DIY community library and art/lit space in Cardiff. His debut short story collection, Local Fires, will be published by Parthian, September 20

Breda Joyce’s poetry has been shortlisted for the Anthony Cronin and Over the Edge Awards and for the Fish Lockdown prize 2020 and commended in the Fool for Poetry Chapbook competition 2019. She won the Judith Aronson competition UCC. Breda’s poetry appears in Poems for Pandemia, The Honest Ulsterman, Kilkenny Broadsheet, Crannóg, Crossways, Skylight 47, Bangor Literary Journal, The Quarryman, The Galway Review, A New Ulster, Dodging the Rain, Tales from the Forest and The Waxed Lemon. Her first collection Reshaping the Light will be published by Chaffinch Press in 2021 

Josh Lefkowitz received an Avery Hopwood Award for Poetry at the University of Michigan. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, New Poetry from the Midwest 2019, Washington Square Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Electric Literature, Rattle, and many other places including journals in Canada, Ireland, Germany, Australia and Hong Kong. His poems have been read aloud on NPR and the BBC, as well as printed on the side of a bus in Nashville, Tennessee. He lives in New York City. 

John T. Leonard is an award-winning writer, English teacher, and poetry editor for Twyckenham Notes. He holds an M.A. in English from Indiana University. His previous works have appeared in Poetry Quarterly, december, Chiron Review, North Dakota Review, Roanoke Review, Punt Volat, High Shelf Press, Rappahannock Review, Jelly Bucket, Mud Season Review, The Blue Mountain Review, Genre: Urban Arts, Stonecoast Review, and Trailer Park Quarterly. He lives in Elkhart, Indiana with his wife, three cats, and two dogs. You can follow him on Twitter at @jotyleon and @TwyckenhamNotes. 

I’m a single parent living in Devon, UK. I’m working towards my first collection, Wolf Daughter, about the impact of parental suicide. I also have several other poetry books and pamphlets in development. One of the wonderful things about being an artist is that you can transform grief and suffering into something meaningful, beautiful, funny or helps to connect people who may be disconnected, alienated and inarticulate.

I have been published widely including or upcoming in Atrium, Lighthouse, Magma, New Welsh Review, Prole, Proletarian Poetry, Stand, Under the Radar and the 84 Anthology etc. I rarely enter competitions (I’m poor) but, with Gram Joel Davis, I won 1st prize in the Cheltenham Poetry Festival Compound Poetry Competition 2015; was Highly Commended in the Prole Laureate competition 2015; one of the Exeter Poetry Festival Competition winners 2015; and longlisted in The Rialto Poetry Nature Competition 2018. Twitter: @hannahl1n

Martina Reisz Newberry is the author of 6 books of poetry. Her most recent book is BLUES FOR FRENCH ROAST WITH CHICORY, available from Deerbrook Editions. She is the author of NEVER COMPLETELY AWAKE ( from Deerbrook Editions), and TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME (Unsolicited Press). She is also the author of WHERE IT GOES (Deerbrook Editions). LEARNING BY ROTE (Deerbrook Editions) and RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE: Collected Poems (Red Hen Press). 

She has been included in "The Sixty Four Best Poets of 2018" (Black Mountain Press/The Halcyone Magazine editorial staff). 

Newberry has been included in The Cenacle, Cog, Blue Nib, Braided Way,Roanoak Review, THAT Literary Review, Mortar Magazine, and many other literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. Her work is included in the anthologies Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Moontide Press Horror Anthology, A Decade of Sundays: L.A.'s Second Sunday Poetry Series-The First Ten Years and others. 

She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo Colony for the Arts, Djerassi Colony for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Disciplinary Arts. 

Passionate in her love for Los Angeles, Martina currently lives there with her husband, Brian, a Media Creative. 

Mary Paulson's writing has appeared in Slow Trains, Mainstreet Rag, Painted Bride Quarterly, Nerve Cowboy, Arkana, Thimble Lit Magazine, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Metaworker Literary Magazine, Months to Years, First Literary Review-East, Speckled Trout Review, Fleas on the Dog, Chronogram, Swamp Ape Review, Pine Hills Review, Backchannels, Discretionary Love, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Poetica Review, Orchards Poetry Journal, Sparks of Calliope and DASH Journal. Her chapbook, Paint the Window Open was recently published by Kelsay Books. She resides in Naples, FL where she is working on completing a full-length poetry collection 

Joanne Rush is an award-winning short story writer, a poet, and an academic. Her work has been published in anthologies and journals including Best British Stories, Northern Gravy, and Ghost: 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On. Joanne’s lives in a tiny cottage in Wiltshire, England, where she is currently editing her debut novel - a tale of art, identity and secrets.

Website: JoanneRush.co.uk

Twitter: @jonicolarush

Hilary Watson is a poet from South Wales. She studied at the University of Warwick and was a Jerwood/Arvon Mentee. Her poems have appeared in Magma, Poetry Birmingham and The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse. She was shortlisted for the Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2018 and the inaugural I'll Show You Mine Prize 2019 and the Verve Festival Prize 2020. On Twitter @poetryhilary 

Marjory Woodfield is a New Zealand teacher and writer. She’s been published by the BBC, Atrium, Orbis, The Pomegranate London, takahē, Flash Frontier, and others. She has won the New Zealand Robert Burns Competition, and been placed in the Hippocrates Poetry Awards Yeovil, Ver and John McGivering writing competitions. She is currently recipient of a Cinnamon Press mentoring bursary and winner of the 2021 Flash Frontier Winter Writing Award.