Peter Daniels
Peter Daniels has won several poetry competition including the Arvon (2008) and TLS (2010). As Queer Writer in Residence at the London Metropolitan Archives in winter 2011/12 he wrote the historically accurate and obscene “Ballad of Captain Rigby”: an illustrated pamphlet of it is in preparation. He has had non-obscene pamphlets from Smith/Doorstop and HappenStance, […]
Zayneb Allak
Zayneb Allak has spent most of her working life since university as a teacher, for a short while in the UK but mostly overseas – in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. She started writing three years ago, for an MA in Creative Writing, experimenting with fiction and poetry. She is now doing a PhD […]
Sophie F Baker
Sophie F Baker has had her poetry published in various magazines including Poetry London, The Rialto, Iota, Horizon Review, Smiths Knoll, Ferment Zine and Pomegranate, and she has performed at venues around the country including Morden Tower, StAnza, Durham Book Festival and Ledbury Poetry Festival. She is the recipient of an Andrew Waterhouse Award from New Writing North (2010) and an Eric Gregory […]
Martin Kratz
Martin Kratz was born in the UK, but his mothertongue is German. His poetry has appeared in The Rialto and Magma Poetry. He collaborates regularly with the composer Leo Geyer, and their work together includes the chamber opera The Mermaid of Zennor. He lives in Manchester where he is currently writing a PhD on the […]
Kayo Chingonyi
Kayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987, moving to the UK in 1993. He holds a BA in English Literature from The University of Sheffield and an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London and works as a writer, events producer, and creative writing tutor. His poems have been published in […]
Cath Drake
An Australian from Perth lured to London in 2001, Cath Drake has been published in anthologies and magazines in UK, Australia and US. She has performed her work in cafes, bookshops, theatres, festivals, at Southbank, Tate Modern, and for unsuspecting passers by. Cath runs writing workshops to charge up creativity and has experience working with […]
Alison Winch
Alison Winch was featured poet in issue 51 of Magma, and has been published in The Rialto, Iota, South Bank Poetry, among others. She is currently based in London and reads regularly on the poetry scene. She enjoys collaboration and is putting together her first collection.
Helen Evans
Helen Evans graduated from the Creative Writing M.Litt. at the University of St Andrews in 2010, and worked as a tutor on its Creative Writing Summer Programme in 2011 and 2012. Her poem Night Crossing was placed third in the 2010 Manchester Cathedral International Religious Poetry Competition. She is one of the writers for Sphinx […]
Maria Fusco
Maria Fusco writes fiction and critical and theoretical texts. She edits publications and contributes to a broad range of international visual culture magazines, books and catalogues. The Mechanical Copula, her first collection of short stories, has recently been published, and she is the founder/editor of The Happy Hypocrite a semi-annual journal for and about experimental […]
Gerry Cambridge
Gerry Cambridge is a poet with interests in print design and typography, and a background in natural history photography. His publications include three volumes of poetry and one of prose-poems. Since 1994 he has edited the transatlantic poetry journal The Dark Horse.
Clare Pollard
Clare Pollard’s fourth collection of poetry, Changeling, is is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her play The Weather premiered at the Royal Court Theatre and her documentary for radio, ‘My Male Muse’, was a Radio 4 Pick of the year.
Michael Pedersen
Michael Pedersen is a 26-year-old writer of Caledonian stock. He has released two successful chapbooks – Part-Truths (Koo Press) and The Basic Alegbra of Buttering Bread (Windfall Books) – and has a full-length collection forthcoming by Red Squirrel Press. Michael is widely published in magazines, e-zines, journals and anthologies; scrip-edits for a motion picture and is circus master/co-founder of […]