Seni Seneviratne, born and raised in Leeds, is of English and Sri Lankan heritage. Her work as a poet and performer is widely acclaimed. She has given readings, performances and workshops in UK, US, Canada, South Africa and Egypt.

ShareMark Mace Smith was born in London and now lives and works in Manchester. He is a poet, actor, photographer, painter, publisher, percussionist, events manager and political activist. He facilitates art therapy workshops in painting, poetry and spoken word performance. He also runs beginners lessons in hand drumming and beatbox. Mark is the Commonword Northern [...]

ShareFat Roland is a short story writer and was commended in the 2011 Manchester Fiction Prize.   His prop-laden prose performance is full of dark humour and pathos. As part of the #Flashtag writing collective, he is the co-editor of the smut anthology Quickies: Short Stories For Adults.   In his spare time, he writes [...]

ShareAnn Wilson (aka Ann the Poet) is a South Cumbria based poet who performs and delivers creative writing and performance workshops. She has performed her poetry, stand-up and music in theatres and at festivals and events throughout the UK since 1995. She’s the host of the Spoken Word Open Mic at the Brewery Arts Centre [...]

ShareMike Watts is a writer/spoken word performer from Hull. His first anthology ‘Coming to a street near you’ was released last year. He is also the co-founder of ‘Write to Speak’ Yorkshire’s only theatre based spoken word event. This year will see him make his Edinburgh debut along with fellow performers Joe Hakim and Ruth [...]

‘Amanda Milligan’s poetry comes close and sings to you, passionate and real and dreamy. Personal politics about the revolution of love and the barricades of loss…’

ShareDaniel Carpenter has had his words in Shoestring Magazine, Rainy City Stories, blankpages, Quickies, and most recently on Metazen. He co-runs Bad Language and is Fiction Editor for blankpages. His stories have been described as “serendipitous”.

ShareNici is a writer and editor with Manchester based writing collective, Bad Language, where she co-ordinates live literature events and edits anthologies of new writing. She has work published on Pgymy Giant, 330 words, Shoestring Magazine, Dead Ink and was shortlisted in the Flash Mob Writing Competition as part of Chorlton Arts Festival 2011. She [...]

ShareBeth is currently studying for a Masters at Oxford University, and is working on a thesis about romanticism and the countryside in modern literature. She is the winner of the Grazia Young Writers Competition 2011, and recently came second place in a national poetry competition run by the Greenheart foundation (part of the Wigan and [...]