Emily Frisella
Emily Frisella is a writer from the Pacific Northwest, now based in London and currently at work on her first novel. She was shortlisted for the 2017/2018 New Poets’ Prize and her essays have previously appeared in The Rumpus and The Adroit Journal. She also writes a Substack newsletter, ‘Stories I Tell Myself’.
Sharanya Deepak
Sharanya is a writer from and currently in New Delhi, India. She is also an editor at Vittles Magazine. Her work has been published in Orion, Eater, Vittles, The Audacity, Popula, Atlas Obscura, Wasafiri, Longreads, Roads and Kingdoms, FiftyTwo, The Believer and The Baffler among others. In October 2020, she won the Wasafiri new writing […]
Sarah Ward
Sarah Ward is a fiction writer and an education academic who uses creative methods in research. She has published short stories in New Writing Scotland 38 (2020), the middle of a sentence (2020) and Words about Whiteinch (2010). She won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for her novel Resurrection, Port Glasgow in 2017 and was […]
Elisabeth Reidy Denison
Elisabeth Reidy Denison is a writer and editor from Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in Prelude, RHINO, The Tangerine, and Thrush, among other places, and her fiction and poetry have twice been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. She has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, where her […]
Hannah Lavery & William Letford
Hannah Lavery is a poet and playwright from Edinburgh. Her debut poetry collection Blood Salt Spring (Polygon) was nominated for a Saltire Prize in 2022, her second collection Unwritten Woman was published by Polygon in August 2024. Hannah is the former Makar (poet laureate) for the City of Edinburgh, co-host of feminist arts podcast QuineCast […]
Catherine Simpson
Catherine Simpson is the author of one novel and two memoirs. Her third memoir Hold Fast: Motherhood, My Autistic Daughter and Me is due for publication later in 2025. Her first memoir When I Had a Little Sister: The Story of a Farming Family Who Never Spoke, was described as: ‘Superb’ (Sunday Times) ‘Riveting’ (The […]
Dan Zell
Dan Zell is a designer and writer based in Norwich, currently enrolled in the Creative Writing MA at UEA. His fiction delves into themes of identity, belonging, and solitude, exploring how these experiences are constructed through uniform, ritual, and inherited symbols, and how collective experiences and materiality shape personal narratives. Dan is the founder of The […]
Laura Haynes
Laura Haynes is a writer, editor and academic based in Glasgow. She was co-director of MAP magazine (2012-2024) and at The Glasgow School of Art is leader of the studio-based interdisciplinary Master of Letters Art Writing postgraduate programme, where she also edits The Yellow Paper: Journal for Art Writing. Laura’s writing and research is concerned with […]
Yi-An Hsieh
Yi-An Hsieh was born in Lukang, Taiwan, in 1992. She holds a Master’s degree in Chinese Literature from National Taiwan University and is a member of the Taipei Legend Studio, which is dedicated to researching and promoting local legends of monsters and mysterious happenings. Yi-An Hsieh is the author of the non-fiction titles Taiwanese School […]
Katherine Buchanan
Katherine Buchanan is an Australian poet, children’s writer and artist. Her work is inspired by the landscape and environment, as well as global environmental issues.Katherine’s first collection, ‘Leylines’, was published in 2019 by Ginninderra Press. Her second collection, ‘Sanctuary’, was completed during her writers’ residency at Varuna: The Writers House in Katoomba, NSW. Katherine completed […]
Leilani Taneus-Miller
Leilani Taneus-Miller is a Haitian-American writer based in Edinburgh. An Alexander Dixon Scholar at University of Glasgow’s creative writing programme, she writes in a variety of genres, integrating her academic and professional experience to create literature that elevates underrepresented communities. Her work has appeared in public campaigns, bookshops and anthologies. She is drawn to research […]
Tina West
Tina West is a theatre maker, writer and yogi based in Fife. Her practice includes vocal and sound production, ethnography and visual poetry. Current projects explore and investigate how absence informs presence where glimpses of past and present cultures, identities, and natural phenomena—embedded in sea scraps washed up on shorelines—can be woven together to reveal […]