Haia Mohammed is a 22 year old student and poet, and the author of The Age of Olive Trees (Out-Spoken Press, 2025), called “a pamphlet of candid honesty and bravery” by Oluwaseun Olayiwola in The Guardian. Max Porter has called her poetry “the most important work being written in the world today,” while Zeina Hashem Beck writes that her poetry “documents, questions, and resists.” She is from Gaza.
Edward Adonteng is an essayist and poet from South London. Published as a Contemporary Ghanaian Poet (Contemporary Ghanaian Writers Series 2024), his poetry considers themes of time, identity and humanity, as well as a reckoning with self. His work has been published in CING Magazine and Make it Plain. He is currently working on his debut collection.
Ethan Chua is a Chinese-Filipino poet, translator, and community organizer. Their poetry and translations have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and are published or forthcoming in Poetry, AGNI, Poetry Northwest, The Journal, Five Points, Asymptote and The Florida Review. Their chapbook, Sky Ladders, won the 2022 Frost Place chapbook competition. Their graphic novel, Doorkeeper, is available in Philippine bookstores.
Noah J is an interdisciplinary poet, performer and critic based in London of mixed Arab heritage. Her writing often explores the boundaries between human and unhuman, interrogating the poetry within biology, automaton, and nature.
She was an editor and co-wrote a column on diaspora poetry for Zindabad Zine, and is an alum of Roundhouse Resident Artists and Barbican Young Poets. She is also an alum of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, Apples and Snakes’s The Writing Room and T.S. Eliot Prize Young Critics. Her work has been featured at Love Supreme, We Out Here, 05: Redacted, Shubbak, Camden Inspire and Bloomsbury Festivals, as well as in Ink, Sweat and Tears, orangepeel, Hecate, and Kalopsia mags.
Abu Leila is a winner of the Bridport Prize, and a winner of the London Writers Awards and a Barbican Young Poet. Their work, preserving family histories of anti-colonial resistance, was shortlisted for the 2024 Wasafiri new writing prize and won the 2024 Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Prize. Their poetry has been published in the Bad Betty Press anthology “Field Notes on Survival”, recreated as a stone carving at the Bloomsbury Festival and performed in Kolkata, India with the Queer Muslim Project. They are currently working on their first novel. Abu Leila hopes to see the fall of imperialism and capitalism in their lifetime.
Bidhya Limbu is a Nepali-Singaporean writer and early-career bereavement care researcher living in London. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Hajar Press, The Quarter(ly), Midway Journal, and elsewhere. She is a Brooklyn Poets fellow and has received support from the Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop. She is a student of grief.
Nat Norland is a London based poet and theatremaker. She has writing forthcoming in Death Kit magazine, and was shortlisted for the 2024 Aesthetica Creative Writing award and 2021 Jane Martin poetry prize. Her work with theatre company ‘why this sky’ was shortlisted for the 2025 Untapped award, and she has been nominated for an Off West End award for sound design. Her writing is concerned with violence, the trans body, car accidents and talking animals.
Tayiba Sulaiman is a writer and translator from Manchester. She completed an Emerging Translators Mentorship with the translator Jamie Lee Searle in 2024. Her own writing has appeared in Prospect Magazine, Briefly Write, PEN Transmissions and World of Interiors.
Tajiyah Sulwana Tajuddin is a Singaporean poet, voice educator, and performance-maker working across sound, language, and embodiment. She is part of the Barbican Poets programme, with work published in Between Queer Teeth: A Queer Anthology. She graduated with Distinction from the MFA in Voice Studies: Teaching and Coaching at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. A recipient of the Margetta Bundy Education Award and the LBKM Scholarship for Excellence in the Arts, her practice explores poetry as breath, resistance, intimacy, and disruption; amplifying voices that challenge silence and reimagine how stories are spoken.