Rupa Wood is a British-Bengali writer and researcher exploring the philosophy of miracles. Her current work explores a reconceptualization of redeemable time using plastic poetic language as a foundational construct for new diasporic ontologies. She is published by journals and anthologies including The Ash Anthology by The Oxford Poetry Society, The London Magazine, The Mays and The Oxford Review of Books. rupawood.com

Emily is a 22-year-old poet and English teacher from Nottinghamshire. A graduate of Christ’s College, Cambridge, she was poetry editor for The Mays and a Mslexia Poetry Competition finalist. Her work has appeared in Hive South Yorkshire anthologies and The Mays. She writes about the space between people and the world. Emily Freeman

Meesha Williams grew up on Noongar Boodja, now known as Western Australia. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter exploring First Nations Australian literature. Her writing has been recognised in competitions including The Oxford-BNU Creative Writing Award, The National Poetry Competition and the Mslexia Women’s Poetry Prize.

Leatrice's writing focuses on mental health, belonging, and mis/communication. Originally from NYC, she moved to the UK to complete a master's degree at Oxford University and has lived here since. She released her debut poetry collection, Yearbook Signing (Reconnecting Rainbows), in January 2026. Elsewhere, her writing has appeared in Blood + Honey, Corporeal, Feast Zine, and Magnolia, among others. She have been a featured reader at the Oxford Di-Verse Poetry Festival, Oxford Indie Book Fair, and Benjamin Franklin House, and have run writing workshops via the Oxford Poetry Library and various community outreach initiatives. Most recently, she was highly commended for both the Femmesocial Press poetry prize and the Enfield Poets poetry prize. Leatrice

Domenic is a California-born, Manchester-based poet whose writing often focuses on urban phenomena and the quotidian. He works primarily in open and syllabic meter.

Jinhao is a lover. They are curious of the quiet and unheard; believe that poems can carry the non-weight of hearts. is a Barbican Young Poet and an alumnus of Southbank Centre New Poets Collective 2021-2022. They are currently making their first pamphlet. Their work appeared in POETRY, Poetry Review, Harana, Bath Magg, Gutter Magazine and fourteen poems and various anthologies. You can find them @xie.jin.hao on Instagram. 

Thembe Mvula is a South African/British poet, screenwriter and facilitator. An alum of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, Barbican Young Poets, and the inaugural Obsidian Foundation retreat, Thembe’s work often unpacks, laments and celebrates all that is tied to home, relationships and self. Her debut poetry pamphlet, We that Wither Beneath, was self-published in 2019 with funding from Arts Council England. Listed in top 52 books of the year by the Poetry School, We that Wither Beneath was also shortlisted for the Melita Hume prize. Thembe’s poetry has recently appeared in Part of a Story That Started Before Me (Penguin Random House, 2023), Before Them, We (Flipped Eye Publishing, 2022), The Black Anthology (10:10 Press, 2021) Magma magazine issues 77 and 83. ThembeMvula

Wendy Allen is in the final year of her practice-based Creative Writing and Art History PhD at MMU where she is also a tutor. Her debut pamphlet, Plastic Tubed Little Bird, was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2023. Her latest works include Portrait in Mustard (Seren Books, 2024) and Art Sundays, with Galia Admoni (Salo Press, 2025). 

Lisa Blackwell is a writer and performer. Her fiction has appeared in journals, anthologies and online, most recently in The Lonely Crowd, The Aleph Review, Lahore, and is forthcoming with Stand magazine. Her first prose poetry chapbook, How it will happen, was the Three Trees Portfolio Award winner 2022 (published by Maytree Press). Her poetry has appeared in The Rialto, 3AM Magazine, Shearsman, Lighthouse Journal and The Pomegranate London, as well as the Popogrou Anthology (Kingston University Press) and Footprints: An anthology of new ecopoetry (Broken Sleep Books). She has performed her own work at literary events in Oxford, London, Berlin and Brussels, and has collaborated with other artists to produce performances for the European Poetry Festival since 2021. She has a Master’s in Creative Writing from University of Oxford, and is a graduate of RADA/King’s College London, where she gained a Master’s in Text and Performance Studies.

I have had a not-exactly-linear journey from medical school to comparative literature, history and English at Oxbridge, moving from knowing what I wanted to accomplish into a space of the unknown. But, to phrase it in the words of Lewis Carroll: “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” I am not that Tumblr, I promise. Having started with gender theory, postcolonialism, and psychoanalytic theory, my current interests include scents, communication networks, and materialities. Speaking of which: I have found a passion for sewing, particularly historical costumes (albeit rather on an amateur level).

Jacob Burgess Rollo is a poet from Dorset, UK. His work is featured or forthcoming in The London Magazine, The Little Review, Fourteen Poems, Basket, and elsewhere. He was commended in The Poet's Workshop's Poetry Prize 2025. Jacob Burgess Rollo

Eleanor Wilders is an artist and poet currently studying a masters in Contemporary Art Practice at The Royal College of Art. Wilders is known to perform her vignettes for a range of audiences including The European Poetry festival, The Royal College of Art and The National Gallery. She recently held a summer residency at The Bouda Gallery in London with her collective ‘In Parentheses Language Artists’ where they held six events under their ‘The Sun Can Be’ exhibition. Wilders has a few published works, a chapbook from Sampson Low titled ‘Offal’, a short poetry collection with 3AM Magazine ‘NIGHT TERRORS’, and is part of a collective chapbook also by Sampson Low called ‘A Z and two OO’s’. She has a chapbook coming out this summer ‘I can swim, I just don’t want to’ with Stone Corpse Press.