our writers

We work with writers who deem themselves as ostracised from traditional publishing routes. This could be for a number of reasons - their gender identity, social class, skin colour, sexuality… The list goes on. What we care about is the stories they want to tell - we give air and amplification to real, authentic accounts. You can learn more about them on their book pages - please click through to see what they’re about.

  • A woman is sitting with her head resting on her hands. She is looking into the distance and smiling. Her hair is tied up in a bun.

    Emma Conally-Barklem

    Life and grief - all wrapped up in two beautiful books

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  • A woman is looking into the camera and smiling. She has long blonde straight hair.

    Bex Hainsworth

    Femininity through poetry, drawing on the power of nature

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  • A woman with short hair is looking into the camera. She is wearing glasses. Her shirt collar looks like a spider web and is fastened with a bow.

    Gemma Lees

    Gypsy pride and Northern humour make a powerful combo for the ages

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  • A man with a beard is resting his chin on his hand. He is wearing a shirt with palm trees on it and glasses. Behind him is a wall with art on it.

    Joe West

    Queer passion and Mancunian wit, channelled into visceral poetry

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  • A person with a large quiff in their hair is looking into the camera with their chin resting on their fist.

    George Parker

    Queer-crip-genderfuckery and evocative challenge to normalcy

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  • A small child has their hair in a ponytail and has glasses painted on their face. They are smiling.

    Art Rowley

    A whole life story in four poetic acts by this exciting Northern voice

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  • A person with hair that is dark on one side and light on the other is wearing a t-shirt with a frilly heart on the front. They are looking directly at the camera.

    goodnighttheskye

    Leeds-based fae poet and slam champ with a taste for adventure

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  • A person with short hair is speaking into a microphone and holding a mobile phone. They are wearing a patterned coat.

    The Hellpoet

    Please be seated for your Alternative Sermon; The Hellpoet hath arrived

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  • A young, white person with cropped dark hair and glasses is sitting in front of a wall of leaves. They are wearing a blazer and large earrings in the shape of the moon.

    Steph James

    Radical queer existence with a pinch of neurodivergent defiance

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  • A white woman with long dark hair, parted to the side, is looking directly into the camera.

    Candi Martin

    Political, spiritual, Northern and magical

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  • A woman with shoulder-length dark hair is looking directly into the camera. She is wearing a jumper and a necklace. She is smiling.

    Helen Rice

    Not your mother, but a damn good poet

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  • A person with short dark hair is stood against a warehouse wall. They are wearing metal-rimmed glasses.

    Quigley Cryan Brockbank

    Body horror with a surrealist twist

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  • A person with short hair is looking directly into the camera. They are smiling subtly. Their hand rests beneath their face.

    Ash Bainbridge

    Gynaecological care from a trans perspective, and the 2024 Student Midwife of the Year

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  • A person with a shaved head is wearing a patterned jacket and scarf. They are standing in front of a brick wall.

    Reanna Valentine

    Sussex charm that’s queer AF to boot

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  • A woman with short light hair has glasses on her head and is leaning against a brick wall. She is wearing dungarees.

    Fiona Hutchings

    Sheffield steel with a dash of wit - this poet refuses to be labelled

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  • A man stands with his hands by his sides, looking at the camera. He is smiling. He has short dark curly hair. He is wearing a shirt and chinos.

    Nathaniel Lloyd Richards

    A well-travelled, philosophical poet with a lot to say

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  • A woman is looking away from the camera. She is using her hand to hold her long-curled hair off her face. She has a tattoo on her forearm.

    Snehal Amembal

    Do you want love or a love story? Beautiful poetry from a beautiful soul

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  • A man with short blonde hair is smiling at the camera. He is stood in front of a brick wall.

    Dorian North

    Northern grit all the way from the US of A

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  • A man with dark hair and a bear sits with his head resting on his fist. A pint of beer sits next to him. He has a tattoo on his bicep.

    James Walton

    As Northern as a pie barm with the stories to back it up

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  • A woman wearing glasses is looking into the camera. She is wearing a black scarf.

    Jen Corcoran

    Socialist, feminist, gorgeous and gobby

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  • A woman with short blonde hair is reading from a book. She is wearing all black.

    Alice Godliman

    Self-confessed spooky bitch

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  • A man with short dark hair and facial hair is in the woods. He is wearing a sweater and looking off camera.

    James Jackson

    The original new new romantic

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  • A man with short curly hair is standing in front of a microphone and smiling. He is wearing a paisley patterned shirt.

    John Clifford

    Do you ever feel like a snow globe?

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  • A person with long hair in a ponytail is looking into the camera and smiling. They are wearing a top that shows their shoulders.

    Elspeth Wilson

    A mortal body with a taste for pop culture

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  • A woman with short dark hair in a bob is stood in front of a micriphone and smiling.

    Emily Cooke

    Lancashire vigour that will tear your heart out if you let it

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  • A woman with long dark hair is stood in front of a wall, staring directly into the camera.

    Caitlin Kendall

    Maiden, mother, crone - and absolutely brilliant wordsmith to boot

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  • A person is sat with their hands in their lap. They have long hair and facial hair. They are smiling.

    Daniel Skentelbery

    The first and only member of the Monmouth Film Re-enactment Society

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  • A man is standing against a lamp post. He is wearing a blazer and flat cap and glasses.

    Charlie Parker

    A defiant millennial man with a lot to say about society

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  • A person with long dark hair is speaking into a microphone and holding a mobile phone.

    Caitlin McKenna

    Everything you ever needed to know about love

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  • A person with shoulder-length hair is looking into the camera and smiling. She is wearing make-up with wings across the lids of her eyes.

    Scarlett Ellson

    A young poet with a deft grasp of what it means to be consumed by emotion

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  • A person with short hair, wearing a shirt and blazer, is standing with their hands waving in the air.

    Eddie Jones

    Romantic poetry with a genderfuckery twist

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  • A woman wearing a floral top is standing with her hands by her side. She has shoulder-length brown hair and is smiling.

    Laura Lewis-Waters

    Radical vulnerability and a knack of pin-pointing the sharpness of grief

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  • A woman with long blonde hair is wearing a floral dress and sitting, smiling at the camera.

    Ellen Clayton

    Love, sex and nostalgia - what more could you want?

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  • A woman with long blonde hair is smiling at the camera. She has freckles.

    Rebecca Kenny

    Where all of this began: the poet who broke her back

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