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Rosie Garland has a passion for language nurtured by public libraries. An award-winning poet, novelist and short story writer, she is frontwoman for post-punk / Goth band The March Violets. Poetry collection What Girls do the Dark (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the Polari Prize & latest collection This Is How I Fight was Observer Poetry Book of the Month. Her four historical novels include The Night Brother, described by The Times as “a delight... with shades of Angela Carter”. Val McDermid named her one of the UK’s most compelling LGBT+ writers, & in 2023 she was made Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

Barry Fentiman Hall is a poet from Yorkshire based in Medway. He has written 4 collections and has had work published in Strix, Lucent Dreaming, Ink, Sweat, & Tears, Marble, Crack The Spine, and a number of others. He has appeared at Morecambe Poetry Festival, Lancaster Litfest and Canterbury Festival.

Jess Mookherjee is a widely published poet. She has twice been highly commended in the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem and her work is included in notable anthologies such as Staying Human (Bloodaxe). She is the author of two full collections, and her second Tigress (Nine Arches Press), was shortlisted for best second collection in the Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize. Her latest pamphlet is Playlists (Broken Sleep Books) and she has her third collection, Notes from a Shipwreck, has just been published by Nine Arches Press.