Writers

Caleb Femi

Poet. English Teacher. Photographer. Filmaker.

Janice Galloway

Work alone and/or collaborate (painters, sculptors, libretti - all comers)

Rhian Edwards

Welsh poet & single mum, twitcher & horror film nut

Andrew McMillan

Young poet exploring masculinity and the body

Karen McCarthy Woolf

Poet, editor, critic, urban nature, collaboration and translation, diversity advocate

Vahni Capildeo

Solitary gregarious impossible animal sleeps furiously, writes devouringly, bakes cakes

Kayo Chingonyi

Lyric poet with a passion for music

Louise Welsh

genre crossing, novelist, librettist, enquiring, political, feminist, sociable-loner, bookworm  

Denise Mina

Curious reader, book-loving, flâneause, cyclist, angry-loner, collectivist socialist

Laura Dockrill

baby. granny. annoying. optimistic. potato-eating. writing. drawing. talking. colourful.

Raymond Antrobus

Widely published poet & spoken word educator. Exploring deafness, identity & emotional literacy

Nikesh Shukla

Author, novelist, diversity champion, filmmaker, average rapper

Emma Jane Unsworth

Novelist and screenwriter. Northerner. Romantic. Likes wine. GSOH

Kerry Hudson

Scottish, queer, working class novelist. Loves to perform, travel, teach

Ifor ap Glyn

National Poet of Wales, performer; with un-Londonlike interest in languages 

Patrick McGuinness

Interested in what things look like when we're not looking

Hannah Berry

Mover. Shaker. Comic book maker

Bernardine Evaristo

Afro-British adventurer who brings unique characters and stories to life

Joanna Walsh

Fictionist, autofictionist, essayist, journalist, experimentalist

Jan Carson

Belfast based novelist and short story writer. Magic realist

Lucy Caldwell

Novelist, playwright, radio dramatist and most recently short story writer

Harry Josephine Giles

Multiplatform poet and performer, making strange, delightful and political interventions

Sophia Walker

Award-winning poet, playwright and teacher. UN and TEDx commissions

Glenn Patterson

Serial optimist

Miriam Gamble

Northern Irish poet; miniaturist; likes to see things skew

Courttia Newland

Out of the box, inner city, stylistically diverse, musically influenced 

Horatio Clare

Father, author, teacher, travel writer, university lecturer, walker, farmer 

Sabrina Mahfouz

Trying to make words that make a change, however small

Ros Barber

Emotionally lucid novelist of speculative pasts and futures

Richard Beard

Curious, experimental, mashed-up

James Meek

Human writer 

Ross Sutherland

Exploring new forms across poetry, theatre, film and radio