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 […]
Liz Berry
Liz Berry received an Eric Gregory Award in 2009. Her poems have appeared in magazines and on Radio 3. Her debut pamphlet, The Patron Saint of Schoolgirls, was published in 2010. She is an Emerging Poet in Residence at Kingston University and a 2011 Arvon/Jerwood mentee
Ros Barber
Ros Barber is the author of two volumes of poetry with Anvil, the most recent of which was a Poetry Society Recommendation. Her novel-in-verse The Marlowe Papers, a fictional autobiography of Christopher Marlowe, will be published by Sceptre in 2012.
Andrew Philip
Andrew Philip was born in Aberdeen in 1975 and grew up near Falkirk and studied linguistics at Edinburgh University. The Ambulance Box, (Salt 2009) included several poems that relate to his son’s death shortly after birth. He is interested in Scots and Gaelic as well as English.
Michael Kavanagh
Michael Kavanagh is a Canadian who has lived in England and Scotland for over ten years. His poetry for children has been published in the anthologies Read Me At School (MacMillan) and Michael Rosen’s A-Z, The Best Children’s Poetry From Agard to Zephaniah (Puffin). He edits the children’s poetry magazine The Scrumbler.
Kate Potts
Kate Potts was born in South London in 1978. She worked in music publishing before training as a teacher. Her pamphlet Whichever Music (tall-lighthouse, 2008) was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. In 2009 she received an Arts Council award towards her first collection Pure Hustle (Bloodaxe, 2011). […]
Edward Mackay
Edward Mackay is a poet living and working in east London. His work has been published in journals and anthologies, including Stand and The Rialto. His poetry was shortlisted for the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize (2011), commended in the Emerge Escalator competition (2010) and shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award (2009). A pamphlet is forthcoming […]
Jacqueline Saphra
Jacqueline Saphra organises the successful ‘Shuffle’ poetry readings in London and is one of the editors of UK poetry journal Magma. Her first collection The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Festival First Collection Prize. She has a whole previous incarnation as a playwright and was also a very successful participant in […]