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  • Jade Prince

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    Jade Prince hails from Essex, England and currently resides in Leeds. Her work has been published in Ink, Sweat & Tears, Poetry & Audience, and PEN Transmissions amongst others, and she currently holds a place with The Writing Squad. She has a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing and a MA in Postcolonial Literary and…

  • David McGovern

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    David McGovern is an Irish artist and writer. He works with video, poetry and performance to create space for reflection and speculation. Themes in his work include care, queer identity, desire and rejection. His writing has been published in The Stinging Fly and Fourteen Poems. In 2022 he was awarded the Arts Council’s Next Generation…

  • Liam Strong

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    Liam Strong (they/them) is a queer neurodivergent cripple punk writer who has earned their BA in writing from University of Wisconsin-Superior. They are the author of the chapbook Everyone’s Left the Hometown Show (Bottlecap Press, 2023). You can find their poetry and essays in Vagabond City and new words {press}, among several others. They are…

  • Mark Ward

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    Mark Ward is the author of Nightlight (Salmon Poetry, 2023) and five chapbooks: Circumference (FLP, 2018), Carcass (7KP, 2020), HIKE (Bear Creek, 2022), the interactive branching sonnet, Faultlines (voidspace, 2024) and most recently, I Was a Teenage Exorcist (Chaps Poetry, 2024). Forthcoming books include Masters, an ekphrastic chapbook responding to dead queer male painters’ work,…

  • Kevin McLellan

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    Kevin McLellan is the author of: Sky. Pond. Mouth. (winner of the 2024 Granite State Poetry Prize selected by Alexandria Peary); in other words you/ (winner of the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection selected by Timothy Liu); Ornitheology; Tributary; Round Trip and the book objects, Hemispheres and [box] which reside in several special collections including the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University. Kevin…

  • Isobel Dixon

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    Isobel Dixon (she/her) is a Northern English writer, born and bred, currently living in Lancashire. Much of her poetry is sapphic and locationally focused as often she queers the Lake District. Isobel was shortlisted for the Litfest and Wayleave Press Pamphlet Competition and has been published in CAKE Magazine and the Wordarium Journal. When not…

  • Kate Schneider

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    Kate Schneider is a writer, artist and library worker living in Dublin. Her poetry has been published in Ambit and Hotel amongst others. They hold a PhD in English Literature from the University of Cambridge exploring fictions of inhabitation in the architectural and written experiments of postwar Britain. Their pamphlet DELI POEM was published by Sunday’s Print…

  • C. Julian Jiménez

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    C. Julian Jiménez (he/they) is a Queer, Puerto Rican/Dominican writer. They hold an MFA in Acting from The New School. Playwriting awards: New Dramatist Residency (Class of 2027), Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop Fellow at The Lark (2019/2020), Pipeline Theatre Company PlayLab (2017 & 2018), LaGuardia Community College’s LGBTQ History Project Grant (2018), Queens Arts Council Grant…

  • Caleb Simon

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    Caleb Simon is a queer poet and maths student who can be found skulking about at open mics in Bath or empty fields in Worcestershire (depending on the time of year). His work can be found in And Other Poems, Propel, and on the Young Poets Network.

  • Jahan Khajavi

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    Jahan Khajavi (b. Fresno, 1986) is ‘the best kind of pervert’ (Farid Matuk) who composes ‘wildly amusing and explicit queer poetry’ (Hamish Bowles, Vogue) ‘with elements of swagger and sex’ (Rob McLennan) that ‘luxuriates in the labor of the real’ (PJ Lombardo, Tripwire) and ‘juggles truly absurd comedy and frank body talk with overwhelming tenderness and genuine corporeal…