MichaelAthey is a Northumbrian poet who recently completed his MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at UEA. He was awarded Runner Up in the 2024 Young Norwich Creative Awards and Highly Commended in the 2023 Terry Kelly Poetry Prize. His work features in PulpPoetsPress and UEA’s 2024 Creative Writing Anthology.
KathrynO'Borne lives in Dorset, where she works for a local charity. Last year, one of Kathryn's poems was long-listed for the National Poetry Prize, and she has also been short-listed in the Bridport Prize. Kathryn's poem "Hyde Park" appeared in the Rialto, and several of her poems featured in Dreich magazine.
KayFeneley has been living and writing in London for two decades, mostly as a civil servant but also writing poetry to make sense of life as a disabled, neurodiverse woman. She was shortlisted in the 2024 Bridport Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Wildfire Words and London Grip.
Jen Feroze: lives by the sea in Essex. Her work has appeared in publications including Magma, Poetry Wales, Acumen, Northern Gravy, Berlin Lit, And Other Poems and Butcher's Dog. She won the 2024 Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition with her book 'A Dress With Deep Pockets', which was published in March 2025
LucianaFrancis (neé Saldanha), originally from Brazil, moved to the UK in 1998. Her debut poetry pamphlet, ‘Travel Writing’ (Against the Grain Press), depicts time as distance and poet as time-traveller. Her poetry was featured in the inaugural Poetry London Presents, and it appears in Magma, Butcher’s Dog, The London Magazine (online), among others.
ElizabethLoudon’s debut novel A Stranger In Baghdad was published in 2023 (Hoopoe, AUC). Her work has appeared in, among others, Trampset, Blue Mountain Review, Amsterdam Review, Saranac Review, Whale Road Review, Southword, North American Review, and Denver Quarterly. After 25 years in Massachusetts, she now lives in southwest England.
MeredithMacLeodDavidson is a poet and writer from Virginia, currently based in Scotland. Meredith's poetry can be read in The London Magazine, Puerto del Sol, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, The Boiler, Gutter Magazine, trampset, and elsewhere.
RoyMarshall used to be a nurse. He now enjoys working in adult education. Roy's publications include The Sun Bathers (2013, shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Prize) The Great Animator (2017) and After Montale (2019). A new collection, Light Work, is due from Shoestring Press later this year.
KatrinaMoinet is a Wales Book of the Year short-listee for their debut pamphlet Portrait of a Young Girl Falling (Hedgehog, 2024). Katrina's prizewinning pamphlet The Art of Silence and a third pamphlet, with Atomic Bohemian, are forthcoming in 2025. Katrina features in Raw Lit, Poetry Wales, Mslexia Best Women's Short Fiction 2024 and won Globe Soup Short Story Prize. Poetry Wales named Katrina 'one to watch'. @kmoinetwrites
SitronPanopoulos is a Greek poet and educator living in London. Prior to writing poetry, he developed a play for the Arcola Theatre Lab and released music under the moniker Sitron F. His work has appeared in Seaford Review and anthologies by Toothgrinder Press and Carnival Press. He is currently a student on the Writing Poetry MA at the Poetry School.
VictoriaPunch is a voice coach and researcher interested in voice, silence, and translation. She has work published in Poetry, Poet Lore, Mslexia, Magma, Under the Radar, Journal of Italian Translation, and Gods and Monsters (Pan Macmillan 2023). Found on Instagram @victoriapunch_
MaryShackleWilson, currently studying an MA at the Poetry School, has come to poetry through performing folk music. Approaching words as an instrument to be learned, improvised and played, Mary is interested in the Venn diagram of lyrics and poetry and the soundscapes that can be evoked in spoken and written forms.
OenoneThomas is a poet, psychotherapist, and chocolate maker, brought up in South Wales and southern Spain, and now at home in the south east of England. She is Poet in Residence for the Cuckmere Pilgrim Path 2024/25. Oenone is a graduate of Poetry School London’s Writing Poetry MA. Her poems are widely published in magazines and anthologies, she has been shortlisted for the Live Canon International Poetry Prize, longlisted in the National Poetry Competition, and highly commended in the Sound of the Year Awards. Her first pamphlet, Self-Portrait as Scallop Shell, is published this summer.’
HanaWilde is a writer and visual artist in Scotland. Hana's work has appeared in The Madrigal, Northwords Now, Swim Press, Motherlore, the Arts Territory Exchange and The Learned Pig.
