Polly Barton
Polly Barton is a Japanese translator and writer. Her translations include Where the Wild Ladies Are and The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda, Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura, and Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai. Her translation of Asako Yuzuki’s Butter was named Waterstones Book of […]
Cameron Wilson
Cameron Wilson is a Glaswegian poet, artist, editor, and birdwatcher writing in Scottish Gaelic, Scots and English. His publications include the sold-out 2023 poetry pamphlet I Wish Scotland was Real, an exploration of Scottishness through the lenses of conspiracy, neurosis, and language. This was followed up by Mull Poems, an appendix to the collection written […]
Claire Wilson
Claire Wilson is a crime writer from central Scotland. Her debut novel, Five by Five, won the inaugural Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writer Prize and was released in August 2024. The novel has since been shortlisted for the Specsavers CrimeFest debut, the Capital Crime Fingerprint Award and the Bloody Scotland debut prize. Five by Five […]
Barbara Pauline Claes
Barbara Claes is a theatre maker, writer, and performer. Writing and musicality are essential elements of her artistic practice. Her work is not confined to traditional theatre spaces—she actively seeks out collaborations in broader social contexts, often working with people in psychiatric care and other vulnerable communities. Over the years, Claes has created several notable […]
Paul Maddern
Paul Maddern was born in Bermuda and lives in Ireland. He has four publications with Templar Poetry, the latest being The Tipping Line (2018), and he edited Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry (Lifeboat Press 2018). He is the recipient of several ACNI awards and three Bermuda Government Literary Awards. He was Teaching Fellow […]
Adam Vaughn
Adam Vaughn (AV) is an Edinburgh-based writer, screenwriter, and teacher from Connecticut. They completed their Creative Writing MSc in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the From Arthur’s Seat anthology. They have placed in numerous screenwriting contests, notably as a short-listed finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition in 2020. AV is currently undertaking a Creative […]
Darcie Springall
Darcie Springall is a poet, writer, journalist, and editor based in Edinburgh. She writes poetry that explores love, loss, and transformation, capturing the tension between yearning, acceptance, and deliverance. Her work gives voice to hidden emotions, celebrates lived experiences, and chronicles compassion, reverence, and awe within the human journey. An award-winning amateur photographer (2025 European […]
Chloe Ling
Chloe Ling is a Cantonese-American writer and poet based in New York City. Shaped by a surrealist sensibility, her work explores the range of life, love, and loss, capturing both childlike wonder and the right of all to dream. Chloe holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Southern California (2020) and a Master […]
CD Boyland
CD Boyland [he/him] is a Glasgow-based poet, visual poet and editor. His debut full-length collection ‘Mephistopheles’ (Blue Diode, 2023) was nominated for a Scottish National Book Award. His pamphlets are ‘User Stories’ (Stewed Rhubarb, 2020) and ‘Vessel’ (Red Squirrel, 2022). He has published two collections of visual poetry; ‘Smc_’ (Steel Incisors, 2020) and ‘Ptchdk_’ (Trickhouse, […]
Titana Muthui
Titana Muthui is an actor and writer who writes with urgency, clarity, and conviction. A Black woman and recovering alcoholic, she creates work that is inseparable from her lived experience. Storytelling has always been her way of surviving the world, but sobriety sharpened her understanding of just how much representation matters—not only for visibility, but […]
Carole McAuley and Hunter McAuley
Carole McAauley is a Helensburgh-based writer and artist, winner of the LiveArgyll FlashFiction500 (April 2025) and multiple-time runner-up (2024–25). She contributes monthly to Bothy Blether at Jean’s Bothy and exhibited her artwork at Helensburgh Library in 2022. Hunter McAauley is an award-winning writer whose fiction has been recognised by the Scottish Book Trust (Winner, 50 […]
Elle Nash
Elle Nash is the author of the novels Deliver Me (Unnamed Press, 2023 and Verve Books, 2024), Gag Reflex (Clash Books, 2022), and Animals Eat Each Other (Dzanc Books, 2018 and 404 Ink, 2019), which was featured in the 2018 June Reading Room of O – The Oprah Magazine and hailed by Publishers Weekly as a ‘complex, impressive exploration of obsession and desire’ and the short […]