Taylor Edmonds
Taylor Edmonds is a writer, performer, critic and marketing & social media manager from Barry in South Wales. She recently completed her MA in Creative Writing at Cardiff University and is currently based in Cardiff. Taylor is also a team member of Where I’m Coming From, an open mic and platform for BAME/underrepresented writers in […]
Steve Whitaker
Having successfully maintained an academic interest in the Arts alongside a career in metals and engineering, Steve Whitaker has completed Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral studies over a forty year period. He has written articles and reviews for several journals and magazines, taught writing groups, and regularly gives lectures on a range of Arts and History-related […]
Emily Blewitt
Emily Blewitt is the author of This Is Not A Rescue (Seren Books, 2017) and the poetry submissions editor for New Welsh Reader. She has published poetry in The Rialto, Poetry Wales, Ambit, and The North, among others, and was Highly Commended in the 2016 Forward Prizes. She read English Language and Literature at St […]
Di Slaney
Di Slaney lives in an ancient farmhouse in Nottinghamshire where she runs livestock sanctuary Manor Farm Charitable Trust and independent publisher Candlestick Press. She has a degree in English and European Literature from the University of Warwick and an MA in Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University. She founded marketing agency Diversity in Nottingham in 1999. Her poems have been widely anthologised […]
Joey Connolly
Joey Connolly lives in London, where he edits Kaffeklatsch, a poetry journal. He recieved an Eric Gregory award in 2012, and his first collection is forthcoming from Carcanet in 2016. Publications “Poem title”, Journal Title (Volume 55.1, Summer 2019) Link: https://linktothejournaloryourpieceifavailabletoview.co.uk Book title (Poetry Wales Press, 2019) Link: http://preferredlinktosellyourbook.com Upcoming events and forthcoming publications N/A […]
Afshan Shafi
Afshan Shafi lives in Lahore, Pakistan and is a poetry editor for the Missing Slate, her collection of illustrated poetry titled Quiet Women is forthcoming in 2017. Publications “Poem title”, Journal Title (Volume 55.1, Summer 2019) Link: https://linktothejournaloryourpieceifavailabletoview.co.uk Book title (Poetry Wales Press, 2019) Link: http://preferredlinktosellyourbook.com Upcoming events and forthcoming publications N/A Further information Twitter: […]
Vala Thorodds
Vala Thorodds is an Iceland-born poet and publisher. She is founding director of the independent literary press Partus and managing editor of Sine Wave Peak. She co-edits the poetry journal Pain. Publications “Poem title”, Journal Title (Volume 55.1, Summer 2019) Link: https://linktothejournaloryourpieceifavailabletoview.co.uk Book title (Poetry Wales Press, 2019) Link: http://preferredlinktosellyourbook.com Upcoming events and forthcoming publications […]
Ryan Van Winkle
Ryan Van Winkle is a poet, editor and live artist living in Edinburgh. His second collection, The Good Dark, won the Saltire Society’s 2015 Poetry Book of the Year award. Publications “Poem title”, Journal Title (Volume 55.1, Summer 2019) Link: https://linktothejournaloryourpieceifavailabletoview.co.uk Book title (Poetry Wales Press, 2019) Link: http://preferredlinktosellyourbook.com Upcoming events and forthcoming publications N/A […]
Elan Grug Muse
Elan Grug Muse is working on her PhD at Swansea University, and is an editor at Y Stamp. She is from Dyffryn Nantlle and won the chair at the Urdd eisteddfod in 2013. Her first volume of poetry, Ar Ddisberod, was published with Barddas in 2017. Publications “Archaeology”, Where I’m Coming From Anniversary Anthology (Lumin, […]
Semyon Khanin
Semyon Khanin is a poet writing in Russian, author of books Tol’ko chto (Just now, 2003), Vplav’ (Afloat, 2013), and No ne tem (But not with that, 2017), a translator of Latvian poetry into Russian, and an editor of numerous poetry collections of Russian and Latvian poets, among them an antology Latvian/Russian poetry. Poems in […]
