Barbara Barnes is an actor and poet. Her poems have appeared in The Interpreter’s House, Poetry London, Under the Radar, Butcher’s Dog, Brixton Review of Books, Ambit, Arc Poetry, The Alchemy Spoon, Perverse and Black Iris. Her collection ‘Hound Mouth’ was published by Live Canon in 2022.

Cindy Botha was born and raised in Africa and now lives in New Zealand. She started writing at nearly 60 while caring for her mother, a dementia-sufferer. Her poems appear in journals and anthologies in NZ, Australia, the USA and UK.

Alan Buckley is the author of two pamphlets and the collection ‘Touched’ (HappenStance 2020); his second collection will be published in 2025. His poems have been commended in the Forward and Bridport prizes. He was a founding editor of ignitionpress, and has taught for both First Story and Arvon.

Christian Donovan lives in Pembrokeshire.  Last year she retired from work as a guide at Carew Castle.  In the past she has been a dairy farmer’s wife, and a Welsh language tutor. She started writing poetry a long time ago but has only recently started submitting to competitions and magazines.

Tessa Foley’s debut poetry collection, ‘Chalet Between Thick Ears’ and follow up, ‘What Sort of Bird are You?’ were published by Live Canon, and was a previous winner of their International Poetry Prize. Her third collection, ‘Try to Find Me’ was published in 2024 by Live Canon. She has been recognised in the Ware Poets Competition, Charroux Prize and Arts University Bournemouth Poetry Competition. Tessa works at the Poetry School in London. Instagram: @tessafoleypoet www.tessafoley.com

Natasha Gauthier is a Canadian journalist and poet living in Cardiff. She is in the 2024-25 cohort of Representing Wales. Her work has appeared in Poetry Wales, Acropolis, Amphibian and Black Iris, among others. She won second prize in the 2024 Welshpool Poetry Competition. Natasha runs Tiger Bay Poetry readings.

Rebecca Goss is a poet, tutor and mentor living in Suffolk. She is the author of four full-length collections and two pamphlets. Her latest collection, Latch, was published with Carcanet in 2023.'

Lesley James is a Welsh teacher and writer. She’s a recipient of the Representing Wales Award 2024-25. Her debut chapbook is A Walk With Scissors. Other work can be found in a variety of anthologies and journals including Spelt and iambpoet. She also writes up-beat poetry for children.

Vanessa Lampert is editing 10 poems about Wellbeing for Candlestick Press. She was recently highly commended in the Ware, Winchester and Verve prizes and came 2nd in the Charm and Waltham Forest competitions. She has poems recently published in The Rialto, The London Magazine, Basket Magazine and forthcoming in Poetry London. 

Glyn Maxwell is a poet, playwright and teacher. His latest books are ‘New and Selected Poems’ (Arrowsmith, USA, 2024), ‘The Big Calls’ (Live Canon, 2023) and ‘How The Hell Are You’ (Picador, 2020) which was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. His Substack site Silly Games To Save The World is a weekly magazine of poetry, politics, psychology, philosophy and games. He is Head of Studies on the Writing MA at London’s Poetry School.

Katrina Moinet is published in annie, Mslexia, Raw Lit, The Postgrad Journal, Firmament, and Ffosfforws. Katrina's second prize-winning pamphlet with Hedgehog Press launches in 2025. Katrina won Globe Soup's Short Story prize. 
Katrina holds an MA in creative writing with distinction from Bangor University and runs Blue Sky open-mic night.
@KMoinetwrites | katrinamoinet.com 

Brandon Shane is a poet and horticulturist, born in Yokosuka Japan. You can see his work in trampset, the Argyle Literary Magazine, Berlin Literary Review, Acropolis Journal, Grim & Gilded, Heimat Review, The Mersey Review, among others. He would graduate from Cal State Long Beach with a degree in English. 

Judith Shaw  won Hasting Book Festival Sussex Prize for Poetry in 2023, was placed in Caféwriters Competition 2023 and shortlisted for the 2022 Gingko Prize and AONB Best Poem of Landscape. Her work has appeared in magazines including Frogmore Papers. She has a Masters in Writing Poetry (Newcastle University/Poetry School). 

Paul Stephenson’s debut collection ‘Hard Drive’ was published by Carcanet in 2023. It was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award and is shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize. He has three earlier pamphlets: ‘Those People’ (Smith/Doorstop, 2015), ‘The Days that Followed Paris’ (HappenStance, 2016), and ‘Selfie with Waterlilies’ (Paper Swans Press, 2017). He helpsheklps programme Poetry in Aldeburgh. Website: paulstep.com / Instagram: paulstep456 / X: @stephenson_pj

Ben Verinder holds an MA in Writing Poetry from The Poetry School and Newcastle University. His debut pamphlet, ‘Botanicals’, was published by Frosted Fire in 2021 and his second, ‘We Lost The Birds’ by Nine Pens in 2023.  He is the winner of the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year Award for 2024/5.