Sarah Barnsley

was a winner in the Poetry Society Members' Poems Competition (autumn 2018), and shortlisted in the Live Canon Poetry Competition (2018) and for the Bridport Prize (2018, 2010). Publications include The Fire Station (Telltale Press, 2015), and, as an academic, a selection of literary criticism. She lives in Hove.

Valzhyna Mort

 was born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Factory of Tears and Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press, 2008 and 2011). Mort has received the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry Magazine, and the Burda Prize for Eastern European authors. Her new book, Music for the Dead and Resurrected, is forthcoming from FSG.

Kaleem Hawa

won the 2019 White Review Poet's Prize. He writes about films and books.