Complete Index of Contributors
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Sean Addicott is a sound artist whose work explores ambient, drone, noise, and electro-acoustic music forms. Their work explores an overarching creative desire; to remove digital limitation from the practice of musicing, compositionally contradicting chaos and order, to return to the wild. They have performed across the UK, and released on UK Label Outsider Art. Rewilding Machines is a composition, performance, and recording project that explores live improvisation and ‘machine rewilding’ through unpredictable sound library recall and aleatoric digital signal processing. The inspiration came from the philosophies of Pete Michael Bauer, exploring embracing wildness and letting go of the domestication of the digital audio workstation, embracing the contradiction of chaos and order in composition. The project is the latest iteration of an overarching creative desire; to remove ‘digital limitation’ with a view to ‘return to the wild’; to live outside of limitation of digital predictability, and return to the heart of the practice: emotion. Bandcamp | Live Session
Sophia Argyris is of British-Greek origin, born in Belgium. Her work has appeared in 14 Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, Poetry Wales and Under the Radar. She has been placed in the Verve Festival competition, commended in the Mslexia competition, shortlisted in the Live Canon, Poetry Wales and Ware Poets competitions. She is author or Heronless (Palewell Press, 2025) and her pamphlet Blood Tundra is forthcoming with Broken Sleep Books in 2026. Website | Instagram
Paul atten Ash is the pen name of Bristol, UK-based Paul Nash. He has been published by Acid Bath Publishing, Acropolis Journal, After..., BBC Radio 6 Music, Beaver Magazine, Broken Sleep Books, Butcher’s Dog, Dark Mountain, Dreich Magazine, Dust Poetry Magazine, Full House Literary, Ghost Light Lit, Gothic Keats Press, Magma Poetry, Salò Press, Seaside Gothic, Shooter Literary Magazine, Sídhe Press, Spelt Magazine, Under The Radar, among others. Prize shortlistings include: Alpine Fellowship (2023) and Ginkgo (2022, 2021). His debut pamphlet, Searchlight Seasons, was published by Atomic Bohemian in October 2024. Links
Jamie Ashworth is an environmental historian from Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. Their Masters thesis focused on forest management and colonial exploitation in the Wairarapa area of Te Matua Taiao. Their interests include public responses to environmental change and the literary culture surrounding Aotearoa's landscapes. Their research also hopes to shed light on the complex relationships between human societies and their natural surroundings, especially in the context of colonial expansion and resource utilisation. Currently, they are engaging with the TIARA project hosted by the Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand, helping to preserve and highlight the rich and varied history of gender and sexual minorities throughout Aotearoa and beyond. ORCID | Bandcamp
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Anna Bailey is a writer, singer and material culture historian from North Yorkshire. Her work explores the intersections of place, materiality and nostalgia. Anna is a graduate of the V&A/RCA MA History of Design programme, where she received the Gillian Naylor Essay Prize for outstanding material culture research. Instagram | Website
Lara Band is an archaeologist and creative practitioner whose work explores climate, heritage, and more-than-human worlds. She combines film, sound, and site-based participatory practice with research, bringing archaeology into dialogue with environmental and ecological change. As well as curating a week long programme showcasing sound for CHAT (Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory conference) she has shown work at the Small File Film Festival, Ramsgate Festival of Sound and at many international conferences. Instagram | Bluesky
William Basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for nearly five decades in NYC and California. Employing obsolete technology and analogue tape loops, his haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life and resound with the reverberations of memory and the mystery of time. His epic 4-disc masterwork, The Disintegration Loops received international critical acclaim and was chosen as one of the top 50 albums of 2004 by Pitchfork Media. The Temporary Residence deluxe LP box-set reissue from 2012 was awarded best re-issue of the year and a score of 10 on Pitchfork. Website | Instagram
Tessa Berring lives in Edinburgh. Her poetry has been published by a variety of journals and small presses. She has three short poetry collections - Bitten Hair and Folded Purse, from Blue Diode Press, and Joke Book from The Silent Academy. She also has a couple of pamphlets - Cut Glass and No Flowers, Dancing Girl Press, and Putty, If a Leaf Falls Press. Her work is often concerned, or stems from, 'feeling' language as something delicate but weighted, visual but opaque.
Blanck Mass (Benjamin John Power's electronic solo project) began in 2011 with a self-titled album on Mogwai's Rock Action label. His track Sundowner was performed in collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra at the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony. After releasing White Math/Polymorph on Oneohtrix Point Never's label, Power toured with Sigur Ros and appeared in Ben Wheatley’s modern psychedelic classic A Field in England. His second album Dumb Flesh (2015) was followed by soundtrack work and the EP The Great Confuso, in collaboration with the legendary Genesis P. Orridge. The critically acclaimed World Eater (2017) established Blanck Mass globally, leading to production work for Editors. His 2019 album Animated Violence Mild further expanded his audience by blending metal and electronic elements. Power's film scoring career took off with the Ivor Novello award-winning soundtrack for Calm with Horses (2020). During the COVID-19 pandemic, he released the improvised Mind Killer and In Ferneaux albums. Recent projects include scores for Ted K, the documentary Gazza, Floodlights, and The Rig, with a second season commissioned for 2025. Instagram | Website
Amanda Bloom is a writer in West Texas with work in SLICE, The Rumpus, The Offing, The Yale Review, FENCE, and elsewhere. She is currently querying Findings, her first collection of poetry. Instagram | Website | X
Corinna Board teaches English as an additional language in an Oxford secondary school. She grew up on a farm, and her writing is often inspired by the rural environment. Her work has appeared in various journals, most recently in Magma 90: Grassroots and Poetry News. Arboreal, her debut pamphlet, was published in January 2024 by Black Cat Poetry Press. Corinna was recently shortlisted in the 2024 Magma pamphlet competition judged by Niall Campbell. Instagram | Bluesky
Tom Branfoot is a poet and critic from Bradford, and the writer-in-residence at Manchester Cathedral. He won a Northern Debut Award for Poetry in 2024 and the New Poets Prize 2022. He organises the poetry reading series More Song in Bradford. Tom is the author of I’ll Splinter (Pariah Press, 2021), This Is Not an Epiphany (Smith|Doorstop, 2023) and boar (Broken Sleep Books, 2023). He has written reviews and criticism for Poetry Review, Poetry London, Magma, Wild Court and elsewhere. His poems have been published by Bath Magg, SAND, Oxford Review of Books, Wet Grain, Ludd Gang, and Berlin Lit among other publications. Instagram
Steven Brown is an artist working in various media, currently concerned with how things age, change, renew and retain purpose as we live our lives in the world. Instagram
Natalie Bühler is an emerging writer, poet, editor and arts administrator living and working on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in Melbourne, Australia. She has a particular interest in non-human animal communication and the animal gaze, which she explores through poetry and nonfiction. She is the Program Administrator for Red Room Poetry, one of the founding editors of The Marrow poetry journal, and is currently studying a Master of Creative Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Melbourne. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cordite, Tint, Hills Hoist, Blue Bottle Journal, boats against the current, swim press and the Tinted Trails and Tell Me Like You Mean It anthologies. Instagram | X
Buoy is Based in the UK, where they run the independent label Bonded Music. Buoy is looking to collaborate with artists, videographers, poets and spoken word artists alike. Hideaway (Full Album) | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
Jamie Burbidge has worked as an illustrator for the past 14 years. During his time as an artist his work has featured in exhibitions alongside the likes of Banksy, Obey and K. Geiger. He specialises in fine blackwork tattoos with a focus on flora and fauna. Instagram
Jacob Burgess Rollo is a poet from Dorset. His work features in The London Magazine, The Little Review, Fourteen Poems, Outcrop Poetry, Seaford Review, The Madrigal, and elsewhere. He was commended in The Poet's Workshop's Poetry Prize 2025.
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CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. The books they have written include The Book of Frank (2010), Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (2021), Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (2024), and a new and selected volume You Don’t Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis (2023). They received the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and other grants and awards. They teach at the Sandberg Art Institute and De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Website | Instagram
Sonnie Carlebach is a sound and performance artist living in London. He is the artist in residence at Brompton Cemetery and teaches adults with profound SEND. He seeks to produce contemplative and mystical experiences that point contradictions beyond themselves through the mediums of sound, body, and mind. He has a ghost dog called Herbie and is learning to draw. Website | Instagram
Claire Carroll lives in Somerset, UK, and writes experimental fiction about the intersection of nature, technology, and desire. She is associate editor at Lunate Journal and an AHRC-funded PhD researcher at Bath Spa and Exeter Universities, where she explores how experimental writing – particularly short stories and prose-poetry – can reimagine how humans relate to the natural and non-human world. Claire’s writing has been published by journals including The White Review, The London Magazine, 3:AM, Short Fiction Journal and Gutter. Claire’s collection of linked short stories, The Unreliable Nature Writer was released in June 2024 by Scratch Books, and examines the interconnection of climate anxiety, surviving late capitalism and dealing with personal loss. The Unreliable Nature Writer | Instagram | X
Richard A Carter is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture at the University of York. Carter’s academic practice investigates the more-than-human dimensions of technical activities, objects, and environments.
Danielle Celermajer is a Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Sydney, Deputy Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and lead of the Multispecies Justice project. Their research focus today is on Multispecies Justice, or how the concepts, practices and institutionalisation of justice needs to be transformed to take into account ecological realities and the ethical standing of all Earth beings. Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future | X
Susan Charkes is a poet and writer in Pennsylvania, USA. She has two poetry chapbooks, Nursling of theSky (Plan B Press, 2024) and sp. (The Operating System, 2017). Her poems have been published in a variety of spaces including Amethyst Review, Magma, Cider Press Review, Clade Song, and elsewhere. Susan also also writes fiction and nonfiction. Her essay, The Power of Placement, was included in Rooted 2: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction (Outpost19,2023). Website
Eden Chicken [Short Story] [Poem] (they/them) is a queer poet whose work often explores hybridity, from textual forms to divergent identities and coexistences with(in) nature. Having recently graduated from University of East Anglia’s Poetry MA, they have been published by new words {press}, the engine(idling, Seedlings, Metachrosis, fifth wheel press and more, featured on The Poetry Society’s website, nominated for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards, and shortlisted for The Free Verse Prize 2025. Instagram
Helene Johanne Christensen is a Danish writer and artistic researcher. She writes poetry, prose, and essays. She has published two poetry collections, Sammenfald (2021) and BLÅ (2018) at Forlaget Gladiator. Her poems and essays have been published in several journals. She is particularly interested in bodily knowledge, collecting and categorisation, the relationship between the human and the more-than-human, words and world, thought and matter, and how knowledge is created and perceived. Teaching is an important part of her practice, often in the form of site-specific writing workshops with a focus on developing a greater sensibility and attention towards the surroundings and the other(s). She holds an MA in comparative literature and museology (2017). Website | Instagram
Phoebe Coco is a London based interdisciplinary music artist interweaving environmental themes with music, songwriting and singing practices. Her work has been featured on BBC 6 Music, Radio 4, and BBC Radio 2, such as her EP I am Not a Machine and album My White Horse & I. Her practice highlights how contemporary and folk music can reflect environmental themes and inspire ecological shifts in our behaviour, research which she shares on a monthly radio show The Phoebe Coco Eco Show on Voices radio and informs the devising and development of The Tree Song Project, which celebrates trees through musical installation, song and tree walks. Phoebe Coco uses music and singing as an artistic device for community building, information sharing and hope building to uplift and unite audiences. Linktree | Instagram
Dana Collins is a poet based in Norwich, UK, whose work tends to dismantle the body and poke at all the parts. Her work can be found in Ink, Sweat & Tears, the Young Poets Network, Graphic Violence, and Viridian Door. Instagram
Emma Constantine creates work interested in creative movement, play and the human form. Her body interacts with space and natural forms in a spontaneous manner. Natural objects become static dance partners and vast landscapes become a platform for the body to move in. Emma is passionate about the natural world and hopes that her work challenges and inspires our own relationship to nature, as well as displaying the vast beauty and uniqueness that exists in it. Emma studied Fine Art at Loughborough University and now works as a full time mum with two children and expecting a third. She has exhibited locally in Leicestershire and internationally in Australia. Website | Instagram
Cities & Memory / Stuart Fowkes is a sound artist and field recordist from Oxford, UK, is the founder of Cities and Memory. From a background of more than 15 years using field recordings to give context to musical composition, he created Cities and Memory in 2015. He has recorded many of the field recordings and produced many of the project’s reimagined sounds, and curates contributions to and partnerships with the project from all over the world. Cities and Memory has been exhibited in a series of installations both in the UK and internationally, and Stuart has spoken on sound and related issues at conferences across Europe. Cities and Memory is also an active live performance, performing highlights from the project with live visuals. Website | Spotify | Instagram | X | Youtube | Facebook
Rhona Eve Clews Whether crawling on her belly across a field filming with a lo-fi lens or gathering voicenotes about people’s relationships with mouths, Rhona’s work explores the overlapping ecosystems of intimacy, ‘bodies’, animism and aliveness, and is rooted in the felt physicality of outdated technology, darkrooms and light-sensitive materials. As an artist, ecologist, and Taoist practitioner she draws upon the vulnerability and vitality of growing up a dyspraxic working-class hippie to re-situate photography, writing and film into expanded, somatic, eco-feminist practices and contribute to wider ecologies of care. Self-taught in art until 33, she studied Psychology, then Photography, before an MFA in Fine Art at Slade. She frequently teaches, speaks, and co-curates on art, psychology and ecology and has shown at LUX, Café Oto and Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center (USA). Rhona is a lively member of two art collectives and a co-founder of The More-Than-Human Book Club roaming between the living world and Barbican library, London. Instagram | The More Than Human Bookclub
Kim Crowder is published in numerous magazines including The Rialto, The New Statesman, Envoi, Gilded Dirt, Skirting Around – also forthcoming in Wet Grain and Causeway. She is a 2025 recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for poetry. In 2024 she participated in the Edwin Morgan Trust’s Clydebuilt 16 poetry mentoring scheme. Her professional and academic background spans anthropology and visual art. PhD in Visual Anthropology (Goldsmiths, 2012). MA Research Methods (Goldsmiths, 2007). MA Textile Culture (Norwich School of Art and Design, 2004). Based in rural NE Scotland. Website | Instagram
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Ginny Darke is a Welsh poet based in Bristol, England. She has been shortlisted for the Poetry Wales Award (2025) and was a Foyle Young Poet. Her poetry has been published with The Stinging Fly, And Other Poems, and Basket Magazine amongst others. Website
E.R. De Siqueira is a poet and translator originally from Brazil. He read English at UFMG. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2023. Works have appeared in Magma, Under the Radar, The Interpreter's House, Wet Grain, Anthropocene Journal, and in the anthologies Responses to Untitled (eye with comet)(c.1985) by Paul Thek’ and ‘Mein schwules Auge - My Gay Eye’. Instagram | X
Ella Duffy is the author of Greencombe (Hazel Press, 2024), New Hunger (The Poetry Business, 2020) and Rootstalk (Hazel Press, 2020), which was longlisted as a Poetry School Book of the Year 2020. Her work has appeared in The Poetry Review, The London Magazine, The Rialto, Ambit and Poetry Ireland Review, among others. Ella's poetry has appeared in athologies including 100 Queer Poems, Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency and Buzz Words: Poems About Insects. She is the editor of botanical poetry anthology, Seeds & Roots (Hazel Press, 2022), and has been a guest editor for Butcher’s Dog and Magma. Website
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Stephen Emmerson is a writer and artist. His books include: A Piece, Family Portraits, and Poetry Wholes - all published by If P Then Q. A Box of Ideas, and Gallery - both published by Timglaset, and Big Song published by Broken Sleep Books. His most recent book flight is out now from Guillemot Press. Website
Lindsay McLeod Espinoza is a Scottish somatic educator and writer living in the mountains of Andalucia in southern Spain. Her writing explores the full human ingenuity of embodied being as a participant in nature. She’s undertaking research into patience and tenacity as she waits to recover from long covid and get back to writing. Her work has been published in the Dialect anthology and long-listed for the Rialto prize and Poetry London Presents. Instagram
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Jessica Foley is a PhD student working on ageing in tropical butterflies. Her sound-based science outreach project The Tape of Life takes inspiration from composers such as William Basinski and The Caretaker and has been selected for exhibition at Green Man Festival and the British Science Festival, among others. Her poetry has been published in Icarus, The Honest Ulsterman, Púca Magazine, and Impossible Archetype.
Forestry Commission [see Andert Tijsma & Sie Medway-Smith]
Rikuto Fujimoto 藤本陸斗 is a sound artist, composer and pianist. He was born and raised in Kyoto and studied composition at Tokyo University of the Arts. Rikuto has previously produced multimedia art that combines video and synthesised sonics, and in a very short space of time completed a significant series of commissions as an arranger and producer, remixing other artists' songs and producing sound logos for radio stations, fashion shows, film scores and galleries. Rikuto’s style ranges widely, from aggressive electronics to meditative ambient to quiet classical pieces. In the past, he’s drawn inspiration from 'duality, light and shadow, the coexistence of the man-made world with nature, a fluidity, and how colour relates to sound. In 2024, he released his solo album Distant Landscapes on Fatcat Records. Instagram | Website
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Willow Gatewood is an environmental scientist, interdisciplinary artist, musician, and storyteller from endless hills of rural Virginia. Their work lies at the intersections of art, science, and technology, and it is their passion to connect people to the ecologies around them and find wonder in the more-than-human realm. Willow's work has been featured in publications including Grand | the journal of One Grand Books,The Purposeful Mayonnaise, and Rachel Carson Council's website, among others, and they have performed at festivals including Earth Celebrations Ecological City, NYC, and Deep Water Literary Festival ('22, '23, and '24), Narrowsburg, NY. Recently, their first poetry collections, tangerine and Salt, were published by Bottlecap Press, LA. Always with a passion for educating and inciting playful exploration, they teach workshops in music-making with environmental sounds and biosonification, eco-printing, and other forms of biological art. Current projects include an album co-created with plants and fungi, Plant Music for Tea Parlours and poetry & print book, this is the kiss of a black hole's sister. Instagram | Website
Yanita Georgieva is the author of Small Undetectable Thefts, which received the Eric Gregory Prize in 2024. She is a recipient of an Out-Spoken Prize and an alum of the Southbank New Poets Collective. You can find her work in The London Magazine, Poetry Wales, Poetry London, and elsewhere. Website | Instagram.
Fiona Glen is a writer and artist who creates across poetry, essay, experimental writing, drawing, and sound. Her work is about how we live with and within each other in an interconnected biosphere. Glen teaches art writing workshops, and she is interested in collaborative and interdisciplinary forms. Mycoglossia (2022, HVTN) – her poetry pamphlet, co-authored with Nina Hanz – animates mushroom voices. Glen's prose has been published in anthologies from Prototype, Dark Mountain and Harper Collins, and in periodicals including ArtReview, 3:AM Magazine and Aesthetica online. Website | Instagram
Jasmine Gibbs is a poet from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. She has an MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh, where she was Poetry Editor for their 24/25 anthology From Arthur's Seat. Her work can be found in Outcrop Poetry, Tenter Hooks, and Filler Zine. She is currently writing and exploring coastal ecopoetics. Instagram
Elizabeth Gibson (they/them) is a queer, neurodivergent poet in Manchester who has been the recipient of a Northern Writers' Award and a DYCP grant from Arts Council England. Poems have appeared in Atrium, Banshee, Butcher's Dog, Dust, fourteen poems, Lighthouse, Magma, The North, and Under the Radar, as well as the LGBTQ+ anthologies Joy//Us from Arachne Press and He, She, They, Us from Pan Macmillan. Elizabeth's debut collection is A love the weight of an animal (Confingo, July 2025). Website | Bluesky
Andrew F Giles [iss.1] [iss.3] writes poetry and prose, with work in many journals and anthologies. His novel Transhumance (Rebel Satori/Queer Space, 2025) is out now. Website
Will Glaser is a drummer, percussionist, composer, electronic musician, and improviser from the UK. Known for his versatility and innovative approach to music, Glaser has an eclectic mix of influences. Drawing from jazz, rock, experimental music, free improvisation, world folk traditions, electronic music and sound art practices, his work spans various genres. Often Blending acoustic and electronic elements to create unique sonic landscapes, his style is characterised by its rhythmic complexity, melodic sensitivity, and experimental edge. His 2021 album Climbing In Circles highlights his skill as a composer and his ability to combine traditional jazz structures with electronic and experimental sounds. He is a member of numerous bands including Sly & The Family Drone, World Sanguine Report, TheseTowns & Pando Pando, and has performed with artists such as Ruth Goller, Alex Bonney and Liam Noble. In addition to performing, Glaser is a dedicated educator, teaching at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Bandcamp | Instagram
Adam Gnade’s work is released as a series of books and records that share characters and themes; the fiction writing continuing plot-lines left open by the self-described "talking songs" in an attempt to compile a vast, detailed, interconnected, personal history of contemporary American life. His work is released by Bread & Roses Press, Numero Group, and Three One G. His latest book, Your Friends Will Carry You Home, will be released January 5th 2025. Website | Instagram
Rebecca Goldberg is an electronic music producer, live performer, DJ and designer from Detroit. Since her debut EP, 313 Acid Queen, she has been affiliated with the multidisciplinary arts collective, Detroit Underground. She has released high-quality music and multimedia projects spanning acid techno to experimental electronic music. Goldberg is a seasoned radio DJ having curated mixes for FM and internet-radio shows hosted across the globe. Linktree
Rebecca Goss is the author of four full-length collections. Her second collection, Her Birth, (Carcanet, 2013) was shortlisted for several prizes including the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection. She is the winner of the Sylvia Plath Prize 2022. Her latest collection Latch (Carcanet, 2023) was shortlisted for the Creative Suffolk Author Award, 2025. She works as a poetry mentor, and is a Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund, in NHS Recovery Colleges. She is current Poet in Residence for CW+, the official charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Website | Instagram
Amlanjyoti Goswami has written two widely reviewed books of poetry, River Wedding and Vital Signs, both published by Poetrywala. River Wedding was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi award. Published in journals and anthologies across the world, including Poetry, The Poetry Review, Penguin Vintage, Rattle and Sahitya Akademi, he is also a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee. His work has appeared on street walls of Christchurch, buses in Philadelphia, exhibitions in Johannesburg and an e-gallery in Brighton. He has reviewed poetry for Modern Poetry in Translation, Frontline, Yapanchitra and Review 31. He also translates poetry from Assamese into English and has read at various places, including Delhi, Mumbai, New York, Chandigarh, Boston and Bangalore. He grew up in Guwahati and lives in Delhi.
Grand River [see Aimée Portioli]
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HERE, is the latest artistic endeavour of London based musician, visual artist and designer Simon Vince. Having made music for over 20 years under various alias's, Simon’s interdiciplinary approach invites listeners to experience a multi-sensory journey through his work. Recent releases under his HERE moniker have garnered attention from notable record labels such as Wayside & Woodland, Slowcraft Records, Imaginary North and Germany’s Shimmering Moods label with future releases on the renowned WhiteLabRecs. Each release is characterised by a fusion of melancholic electronica, ambient textures, drone elements, and experimental glitch soundscapes. HERE’s music has been described as capturing an "ever-flowing ethereal soundscape that oscillates the soul of the Here & Now." Instagram | Bandcamp
Hiba Heba is a Pushcart-nominated poet from Pakistan. She is an English instructor at FAST-NUCES, Islamabad. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Wales, Fragmented Voices, Eunoia Review, The Ofi Press, and other publications. She was the first runner-up for the New Feathers Award in 2021. She has a microchap, Grief is a Firefly, published in 2022 by Origami Poems Project. Her debut poetry collection, Birth of a Mural (Golden Dragonfly Press, 2023), was named one of the best loved books of 2023 by The News Sunday. Website | Instagram | X
Hasib Hourani is a writer and educator living on unceded Gadigal Country in so-called Sydney. His debut book, rock flight was released with Giramondo (AU) and Prototype (UK) in 2024, and with New Directions (US) in 2025. rock flight won the Mary Gilmore Award and the NSWLA Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. It is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry and the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize, among others. Hasib is currently completing his second book, funded by Creative Australia. rock flight | Instagram
Joey Hollis is a disabled writer, activist and sound artist interested in a field called 'ecrippoetics' and they are researching the intersection of ‘crip','eco', and 'post-internet' in poetic form. Substack | Instagram
Howl & Jones is the collaborative name between Joshua Jones and Howl Hubbard. Through Welsh and English, text and sound, they are focussed on Welsh folklore and their relationship with the natural word, especially through a queer and neurodiverse lens. Joshua Jones (he/him) is a queer & neurodivergent writer from Llanelli, South Wales. His debut work of fiction, Local Fires (Parthian, 2023) was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize & he has been widely published and anthologised. He co-founded Dyddiau Du (Welsh for Dark Days), a library and artspace for/by LGBTQIA+ & neurodivergent folk. Howl Hubbard is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Cardiff, South Wales. They also co-founded Lone Worlds, a collective of LGBTQ+ creatives interested in building community & educational resources to encourage artistic development for queer creatives in Wales. Howl: Instagram | Bandcamp | Lone Worlds Jones: Instagram | Dyddiau Du | Local Fires
Alun Hughes is a poet and wilderness guide living in Stroud, Gloucestershire. In 2021, he was a digital writer in residence with Dialect at the Cotswold Water Park and won third prize in the Troubadour International Poetry Competition. In 2022, he was shortlisted for the Laurie Lee Prize. His poetry pamphlet Down the Heavens, is published by Yew Tree Press. Somewhere Somewhere, an album of nine poems from the collection to original soundtracks, made with the band Lensmen, is available at lensmen.bandcamp.com. He is currently working on his next collections, making poetry films and developing community storytelling events and creative writing workshops. His writing is based in nature-based practice and indigenous perspectives. Substack | Instagram | X
Sophie Hughes is an artist, researcher and educator. Her work roams the boundaries between the known and the unknowable. Looking through spiritual, ecological and scientific lenses, she focuses on relationships between the human and the more-than-human world. Her work harnesses the power and sensitivity of art to explore questions such as: if the forest is our teacher, what can we learn? Her personal practice includes storytelling, poetry, movement, photography and film. In community, she is the co-founder of the Walking Trees, an ecological art collective who organise gatherings and workshops, where art provides an exploratory vehicle for addressing the most pressing ecological questions of our time. Instagram | Walking Trees Collective
Sophie Hullinger is a video artist, animator, and writer currently working between Glasgow, Scotland and Tirana, Albania. Storytelling, world-building, connection, and humor run through her varied approaches to making. Her more recent work combines experimental animation and editing with personal writings in order to create meditations on time, space, and the increasingly mind-bending and absurd reality that we share together. She graduated with her Bachelors in Fine Arts in 2020 from the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design, and has exhibited her work extensively in the United States and United Kingdom. Instagram
Rhiannon Hunter uses forms of storying through film, text, sound and installation to explore relationships between people, non-human agents and places that are formed through networks of encounter, co-existence and contradictions. She works in co-production to explore personal and collective responses to being part of an environment through engaging with 'noticing' and ‘collaging’ as methodologies for capturing fleeting interactions, connectivity and wonder that create associations across scales of experience. She engages in different forms of knowledge sharing and acquisition from sensorial encounters, casual ‘gists’, anecdotes, to working with specialists. She has been commissioned and worked with the Horniman Museum, London, Royal College of Art, South London Gallery, Signal Film & Media 2021, Festival Stoke 2020, and Estuary 21 festival. She has a Distinction MA Art & Ecology 2023, Diploma Higher Education Masters in Fine Art 2022, BA Textiles 2009, Goldsmiths, University of London. Website | Instagram
Valeska Hykel By painting directly onto the screen’s mesh, these expressive monotypes toy with the boundaries of painting within print. In them she ensures that the hand of the artist is visible and allows the scars of the process to add to their narrative. Valeska exhibited at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2022, 2023 & 2024; was Artist in Residence at Print Club London, 2023; her last Solo Exhibition was at Print Club London in June 2024. Website | Instagram
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Jayant Kashyap is the author of the New Poets Prize-winning pamphlet Notes on Burials (smith|doorstop, 2025). His poems have featured widely in journals such as Poetry, Poetry London, Poetry Northwest, and Poetry Wales. | Instagram
Nathaniel King is a poet from Cornwall, UK. His debut, Ghost Clinic, was published with Broken Sleep Books and received the 2024 Eric Gregory Award. His writing has appeared in Poetry London, The London Magazine, bath magg, Berlin Lit, Butcher's Dog and Lighthouse. He is currently studying for a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at Royal Holloway, conducting research on hauntological poetics, where he also teaches as a visiting tutor.
Yessica Klein is a Brazilian writer and artist with an MA from Kingston University in London (UK). Yessica was shortlisted for the 2023 White Review Poetry Prize, the 2022 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, and the 2017 Jane Martin Poetry Prize, as well as highly commended at Ambit's 2022 Poetry Competition, Magick. Her work appears in Banshee Lit, The Moth, Wet Grain Poetry, 3:AM, Magnum Photos, The Lighthouse Review, and more. She runs a newsletter called That Poetry Thing, which focuses on writers' desks and creative habits. Instagram
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Sean Lee is an artist, designer and music producer living in Bristol, UK. He is a collector of old encyclopaedias, lists of numbers and rain damaged fly posters. Sometimes he steals chips of spray paint from local graffiti spots and misuses library photocopiers. Sean uses found materials to make collage. Website | Instagram
Kevin Leomo is a Scottish-Filipino sound artist, curator, and chair of Sound Thought. Kevin is interested in silence, fragility, quietude, perception, and liminality. His practice has been informed by an engagement with Wandelweiser. He is the Community and Engagement Manager for the College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Glasgow, where he oversees cultural programmes including Thinking Culture, The Dear Green Bothy, the Laboratory for Civic Arts Research, and Music in the University. Kevin plays in the experimental duo Dronehopper with Simon Hellewell and is a board member for the Scottish Music Centre. Kevin co-curates the Creatives of Colour Festival with Zahra Khosroshahi. With Maria Sledmere, Kevin is one half of Project Somnolence, a practice-led research project exploring connections between sleep, ecology, and sound. Website | Instagram | Soundcloud | Bluesky
Katy Lewis Hood is a writer and researcher from the East Midlands, currently floating in East London. Their poetry pamphlets include Glitch Almanac, with Martina O'Brien (Outside Press, 2024), Bugbear (Veer2, 2021) and infra·structure, with Maria Sledmere (Broken Sleep Books, 2020). With Jac Common, they collaborate on Coneffluents, a poetic research project attuning to queer, anticolonial, and nonhuman lifeways in wetland ecologies and infrastructures. Instagram
Aidan Lochrin is a sound artist, composer, and experimental musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. Their work is heavily steeped in improvisation and the drone, and through Aidan’s work, they are deeply fascinated with the sonic ontology of place, the disintegration of the self in the modern world, and the reflection of stasis in the environmental. This revolves around producing long-form sonic & visual material and is often realised through the process of live improvisation, to ensure that the idea of temporality survives within any work, involving taking recorded material and running it through ‘disintegration’ processes; to create intense and unique audiovisual textures. In recent years, their practice has increasingly contained themes of the environment and liminality & the self with works often taking a long-form approach; using both time and space to allow both sound and visuals to develop into their own environments. Website | Instagram
Endija Lukstina is a Glasgow-based Latvian poet. Their work has been published by sincere corkscrew press as well as local zines in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Riga, and performed in various poetry nights. They are interested in the pleasure of the text, bilinguality, and androgyny. They have participated in multiple writing workshops and are currently working towards a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. Instagram
Lupo is a drummer and multi-instrumentalist who has played, recorded and written music all over the world. Alex has collaborated with and worked alongside PJ Harvey, Charlotte Harding (Faber), Charles Hazlewood and the British Paraorchestra, Bibio (Warp Records), Dubkasm (Peng Sound), Malachai (Domino Records), Babyhead (Rockers revolt), The Allergies (Jalapeno records), United Kingdoms, and the Most Trio among others. Website | Instagram
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Jen Mac (Jenna Macrory) is a Dumfries born sound artist and musician creating work that interrogates humankind's relationship with nature. Guided by Environment, her longstanding sound and art project, experiments at the confluence of sound and nature. Textile collaboration with Morag Macpherson can be found HERE | Soundcloud
Simon Maddrell (he/him/they) appears in Gutter, Magma, MODRON, Poetry Wales, SAND, Southword, Stand, The Moth, The Rialto, Under the Radar, and others. Pamphlets: 2020: Throatbone, UnCollected Press; Queerfella, Joint-winner, The Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition. PBS Selections: Isle of Sin, Polari Press, 2023; The Whole Island, Valley Press, 2023; a finger in derek jarman's mouth, Polari Press, 2024. Patient L1, Polari Press, 2025. Simon's debut collection will be published by Out-Spoken Press in Feb 2026. Website | Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky | Threads | LinkedIn | Soundcloud
Issie Martin’s practice investigates her relationship to bodies of water and the uncertainty of eroding coastlines in atime of ecological crisis-specifically her home on the East Kent coast. Her work is influenced by hydrofeminist theory, which reimagines the human as a body of water entangled in the global water cycle. Issie considers porous boundaries and the shoreline as a site of exchange, using site-specific materials to create 'tools' to save the land and prevent flooding. Using seaweed and chalk in her series of satirical Futile Acts, Issie criticises a lack of action in the face of a changing climate. These fragile materials are, obviously, ineffective and highlight the ephemerality of both the material and our ecological stability. Website | Instagram
Rebecca McCutcheon is a poet living on the Essex coast. Her work has appeared in The Poetry Review, Propel, berlin lit, The Interpreter’s House and Seaford Review. Her debut poetry collection, Down, is published by Out-Spoken Press. Instagram
Bethan McFadden is a fine artist based in Cornwall, UK. Impermanence and different states of consciousness are recurring themes in her work and she takes inspiration primarily from nature and her own meditative experiences. She has previously presented two solo exhibitions of life-size drawings and sculptures of endangered animals, one in association with environmental charity Flora & Fauna in London, and one as part of the Big Green Week in Bristol. She has undertaken a residency in a wild animal refuge in Bolivia where she drew the animals to raise money for, and awareness of, the organisation. She has exhibited in a number of additional exhibitions in the UK and abroad, and has had illustrations published in Dark Mountain and in recent non-fiction book, The Meat Paradox’ by Rob Percival, an investigation into the complicated relationship that humans have with eating meat. Website | Instagram
Marcia Mihotich is a graphic designer working mainly for the cultural publishing sector. Alongside her commercial design practice she makes film, sound, paintings and drawings. Her films combine, semi-factual audio with original sound and alternative visual narratives – often using split screens. Design Index | Youtube | Instagram
Zana Mody is an English PhD candidate at the University of Oxford where she researches the relationship between gender and landscape in postcolonial Indian literature and art. Born and raised in London, she has always been curious writer and photographer. Her work—academic and creative—is invested in fostering interdisciplinary dialogues between literature and the visual arts. Instagram
Annie Morad is an internationally exhibited artist, musician and lecturer. Their research is presented in book chapters, articles, conferences and symposiums. Their art practice incorporates: music; installation; photography; painting; drawing; performance; video and sound. They also play tenor saxophone. Annie produces artwork that considers interaction, interconnection and encounters with non-human species. Website | Instagram
Kit Monteith is a musician and filmmaker with a special interest in audio-cartography and audio-historical interactions. He performs as a percussionist with the bands Foals and The Yaw and has directed film projects featuring many prominent artists such as Max Richter, Yann Tiersen, Everything Everything, Mykki Blanco and Bombay Bicycle Club to name but a few. Kit has also released a number of albums under his own name and as part of the groups Trophy Wife, Jonquil and IOE AIE. Website
Dan Moore is a keyboardist, composer and sound artist based in Bristol. Working inthe fertile spaces between jazz, classical and electronic music, he has recorded and toured with artists including Damon Albarn, Adrian Utley, Charles Hazlewood's Paraorchestra, Seb Rochford, Neil Davidge, The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble, the Britten Sinfonia, Andy Sheppard, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Beth Orton, Roni Size and Tony Allen. Website | Instagram
Jeremy Moors is a musician, artist and engineer. After spending time in Paris running a record label Jeremy returned to the UK where he has cultivated his own brand of deep modular synthesis, releasing music under his own name and as part of the groups Paddox, Dagga Domes, IOE AIE and Dheltra. He's also collaborated closely with visual artists Jane Haigh and Francesco Miniati to create a number of acclaimed audio visual performances. Instagram
Simon Moreton is an artist working across prose, poetry, collage, comics, and drawing. He is interested in how the things that happen to us, the histories of the places we live in, and how we remember things, shape who we are. His first pamphlet of poems, Gardening Beneath a Falling Piano, was published by Bored Wolves in 2024. Other work includes his regular zine series Minor Leagues, and the books Now is the Time to Know Everything (2023 self-published), WHERE? (2021 Little Toller), and Plans We Made (2015 Uncivilised Books). By day he works as Associate Professor of Creative Economies at UWE Bristol. Website | Instagram
JLM Morton is from Gloucestershire in South West England. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry Review, Rialto, Berlin Lit, Anthropocene, Magma, Mslexia, The Sunday Times and elsewhere. Highly commended by the Forward Prizes, she is also the winner of the Laurie Lee and Geoffrey Dearmer prizes. Her first collection is Red Handed (Broken Sleep Books, 2024). Red Handed explores the global connections in the English countryside through the lens of colour and the raw materials of the textile trade, moving through to an exploration of ancient rites and rituals along the course of a river which Morton swam-walked and trespassed along one summer. Website | Instagram
Ina Morken is a writer and director tracing silver linings of humour in contemporary tragedy, with a focus on women’s stories. Graduating from Film and Tv at the University of Edinburgh before working in the Scottish factual entertainment industry, she moved to Berlin for love in 2022 and has been based there since. Website | Instagram
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Camilla Nelson is a British language artist, small press publisher, creative programmer and freelance academic currently working towards developing an "Experimental Ecology of Line". She has a PhD in Performance Writing from Falmouth University/Dartington College of Arts (2012) and now teaches mostly online. Her work explores the materiality of language in page-based poetry, soundwork, installation and performance. She is founding editor of Singing Apple Press, a Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University (2023-2025) and member of the Place Collective | Website
Taylor Nuttall is a composer, artist and sound designer. His work is often a hybrid of influences often incorporating found sounds. Taylor trained as a visual artist including paint, sculpture, photography, installation and digital media. Recently Taylor has been focussed on live improvisation producing ambient electronica and generative sound design. Soundcloud | Bandcamp | Instagram | Website
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Mary Paterson is a writer and curator based in London. She makes art with communities in public spaces, and is currently Head of Arts for a series of London hospitals. She writes mainly for performance, and her work has been performed around the world including with Live Art DK (Copenhagen), Wellcome Collection (London) & Arnolfini(Bristol). Her poetry has been published by Poetry Magazine, 3am Magazine, & Cutbow Quarterly.
Ben Pester’s first story collection Am I in The Right Place came out in 2021 with Boiler House press. He has stories in Granta, Lunate & The London Magazine. He is the author of the novel The Expansion Project (Granta 2025). He lives in London. Website | Instagram
Verity Platt is a Manchester based writer of short-fiction, screenplays and poetry. Her writing seeks to interrogate our connection to the land and how we stay with and stray from the places and people who birthed us, exploring bodies, fertility and motherhood across all natures and forms. Her short story Tripe was commissioned by Levenshulme Old Library for the You Are Here project in 2024.
Aimée Portioli (Grand River) is a Berlin-based Dutch-Italian composer and sound designer who records and performs as Grand River. Portioli makes experimental electronic music with rich emotional colours. Her work, influenced by minimalism and ambient music, is atmospheric yet rhythmically complex, incorporating a wide range of contemporary compositional and production techniques.
Stephanie Powell is a poet based in Naarm / Melbourne. Her latest collection of poems is Invisible Wasp (Liquid Amber Press, 2024). Her work has been translated into Braille, Spanish and published widely. Website | Instagram
Dan Power is a poet, and founding editor of Trickhouse Press and the AI Literary Review. His most recent collection, Memory Foam (Doomsday Press, 2023) was a collaboration with OpenAI’s GPT-3. Dan’s work can be found in Spam, Pain, and Footprints: An anthology of new ecopoetry. Dan was shortlisted for the 2024 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Instagram | X
Chris Powici lives in Perthshire, Scotland where he writes poems and essays. He has taught creative writing at The University of Stirling and The Open University, and is co-editor of New Writing Scotland. Chris is one of the people behind Paperboats (paperboats.org), a group of writers campaigning for action on climate change and other ecological threats. His latest poetry collection is Look, Breathe (Red Squirrel Press).
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Lucy Radcliffe is an Irish-born and raised writer based in the city of Derry. Her writing commonly consists of themes such as identity, belonging, place, colonisation and womanhood. Coming from a proud nationalist background, Radcliffe has recently achieved a bachelor’s with honours in Creative Writing and Drama. During her time at university, she published her first short poem collection, Bleeding Beauty (2024) which holds an emphasis on the experiences of women and girls alike. Instagram
Zoë Ranson is a language poet, interested in the sounds of things. Zoë’s tendencies are interdisciplinary prose poems as performance, as plays; novels distilled to poems. Work appears in Hobart, The Lonely Crowd, Lighthouse Journal and performed at Omnibus, Stratford East and Soho Theatre.
Eleanor Rees’ pamphlet collection Feeding Fire (Spout, 2001) received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and her first full length collection Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, UK and the Irish Glen Dimplex New Writers’ Award. Her second collection is Eliza and the Bear (Salt, 2009). In 2015, Eleanor published a long pamphlet Riverine (Gatehouse, 2015) and a third collection Blood Child (Pavilion, 2015). Eleanor’s fourth collection of poetry The Well at Winter Solstice (Salt, 2019) received a Northern Writers’ Award 2018. Selections of Eleanor’s poems have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Lithuanian, Slovak and Romanian. (Versopolis, 2016, 2019). Her fifth collection is Tam Lin of the Winter Park (Guillemot Press, 2022). Dr Eleanor Rees is senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool Hope University and lives in Birkenhead on the Wirral peninsula, UK. Website
Meg Reynolds is a poet, artist, and teacher from New England. An instructor in writing and humanities at Vermont Adult Learning in Burlington, her work has been published in a number of literary journals including Mid-American Review, RHINO, The Offing, Iterant, Prairie Schooner, New England Review and the Kenyon Review. A graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program, her poetry and comic work has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and once for Best the Net. Her first collection of poetry comics, A Comic Year, was published in October 2021 from Finishing Line Press. Her second collection, Does the Earth, was published in May 2023 from Harpoon Books. Reynolds also serves on the Board of Sundog Poetry, a nonprofit organisation committed to providing and expanding poetry programming for all Vermonters. Reynolds' poetry was published in Best New Poets 2023. Website
Zain Rishi is a writer and bookseller from Birmingham. He won the 27th Annual Ware Poets Competition, placed third in the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Poetry Wales Award 2024-25. His work has been published in magazines such as Gutter, Propel, Wildness and Fourteen Poems. His debut pamphlet, Noon, is forthcoming with The Emma Press in February 2026. Instagram
Susan Richardson's fourth collection of Poetry, Words the Turtle Taught Me, emerged from her residency with the Marine Conservation Society and was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award. Her work of creative nonfiction, Where the Seals Sing, a deep dive into the lives of Atlantic grey seals, is published by William Collins. Website | Instagram | Bluesky
Louise Romain is an anthropologist, an imagination activist and a podcast producer. She works towards the protection of Indigenous rights and the flourishing of multi-species justice. On her show Circle of Voices (available on Spotify-Apple-Soundcloud), she releases immersive listening journeys, short stories and spoken word, crafted as invitations to dream deeper into thriving futures, where humans remember their place and responsibility in the circle of life. She is passionate about bringing the sounds of the living world (eco/bioacoustics) to more ears and hearts, and uplifting stories of resilience in times of collapse, crisis and renewal. Website | Instagram
Sam Rye is a poet and editor originally from the North East of England and now based in Manchester. He is the co-editor of scant, a poetry and photography print magazine that explores ideas of transience and sparseness in our current moment. His poetry and essays have been published/are forthcoming in Anthropocene, Propel Magazine, Butcher's Dog, and Still Point. His debut poetry pamphlet Skeleton Reservoir Function is forthcoming with death of workers whilst building skyscrapers. Instagram
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Julie Sampson is a poet and independent writer/researcher now living in Somerset. She has a PhD on writer H.D., from The University of Exeter, and is currently completing a book about Devon landscape and women writers. Her poems have been published in a variety of magazines and featured in several competitions. She has three collections - Tessitura (Shearsman, 2014); It was when it was when it was (Dempsey and Windle, 2018); and Fivestones (Lapwing, 2023). Website | Instagram
Jane Scobie’s work is deeply rooted in the rural landscape and the sea shore, it addresses themes of reparation and communication between species in the context of environmental threat. Her interdisciplinary practice challenges species hierarchies and questions our relationship with nonhuman entities. She has an MA in Arts and Science from Central Saint Martins, UAL. Recent work Ear of the Sea and Other Stories (2024) was nominated for NOVA 2024 and shortlisted for Maison/0 This Earth Award. Recent exhibitions include at BOTH Gallery, Ground Work Gallery for Art and Environment and outdoor sculpture in Gas Holder Park, London, and at Wild Ken Hill, rewilding and regenerative farm, in West Norfolk. Website | Instagram
Hudson Scott is a British songwriter, producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his genre-blurring sound and distinctive trumpet-driven arrangements. Drawing from a rich background in classical brass, electronic production, and experimental pop, Scott crafts emotionally resonant music that bridges the organic and the synthetic. Now based in London, Hudson Scott first gained recognition in his hometown of Oxford in the late 00's as a band member of Youthmovies and Jonquil; and as a collaborator and touring musician with artists like Foals, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Songhoy Blues bringing his trademark brass flourishes and textured synth work to international stages. His solo work showcases a cinematic approach to songwriting—layering analog synths, live drums, and intricate horn lines into lush, immersive soundscapes. His compositions often explore themes of memory, melancholy, and transformation, underpinned by his evocative trumpet melodies. In addition to his solo endeavours, Scott has played a pivotal role in shaping the sonic landscape of Charlie Cunningham's music. He co-produced Cunningham's 2019 album Permanent Way, and produced 2023's Frame, contributing to the music's introspective and atmospheric qualities. Their partnership has been instrumental in crafting a sound that resonates with authenticity and emotional depth. Whether performing live or producing in the studio, Hudson Scott remains a dynamic force in contemporary music, continually pushing the boundaries of genre and sound. Instagram
Colin Seddon is a multi-instrumentalist, based in Cornwall. His music draws on the ruggedness of Cornwall and his urban roots in Manchester as well as more than 30 years as a percussionist, specialising in Brazilian and Cuban music. He is currently exploring elements of sound design, both solo and in collaboration with other artists, building on the foundations of many years of experience working in a wide variety of genres and contexts including theatre, dance, carnival, soundscape, samba, rumba, jazz and EDM, including 808 State, Biting Tongues, Inner Sense, Kneehigh Theatre and Wild Works Theatre. He has an MA in Innovation in Sound in which he explored new ways for composers to collaborate with each other, in the creation of a continuously-expanding web of interlinked sounds. Linktree
Jane Spurr Is a Cornish Playwright/ performer/ theatre practitioner /filmmaker and artist. She has worked collaboratively and as a solo artist on a wide range of projects with artists, poets, dancers, actors, composers, musicians and the general public to produce highly imaginative and diverse work that often falls outside traditional settings. One of her films was part of the film and Poetry festival, Women in Word. She was part of Devonport Writers Project and has had poems published in the Women Speak Volumes booklet. Currently a mentored writer with Paines Plough and Theatre Royal Plymouth, as well as working on a writing commission in Cornwall for O-Region From The Horses Mouth. Instagram
Di Slaney lives on the edge of Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire UK where she runs livestock sanctuary Manor Farm Charitable Trust and independent publisher Candlestick Press. She was the winner of The Plough Poetry Prize 2022, Slipstream Open 2023, Four Corners 2015 and Brittle Star 2014 poetry competitions. Her poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, widely anthologised, and highly commended in the Forward Prize 2016 and Bridport Prize 2020. Journal publications include Poetry Wales, Popshot, Magma, The Rialto, The Interpreter’s House, Iamb, Raceme, Brittle Star, Long Poem Magazine, Humana Obscura and Modron Magazine. Her first collection Reward for Winter was published in 2016 and second collection Herd Queen in 2020, both by Valley Press. Her third collection Hard Graft is due early in 2025, along with pamphlet January Conversations, with Dogs, both also from Valley Press. She is Poet in Residence at Nottinghamshire Local History Association. Website | X | Instagram
Maria Sledmere is an artist, writer and managing editor of SPAM Press. She is lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde and her latest poetry collection, Cinders, was recently published by the Bay Area press Krupskaya. Other books include Woundscape (Osmosis Press, 2023), An Aura of Plasma Around the Sun (Hem Press, 2023), Cocoa and Nothing - with Colin Herd (SPAM Press, 2023), Visions & Feed (HVTN Press, 2022) and The Luna Erratum (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2021). In 2023, Maria was included in the Saltire Society's ‘40 under 40’ list celebrating ‘outstanding Scottish creatives’. Her next book, Midsummer Song (Hypercritique) is forthcoming with NoUP Press in autumn 2024. Website | X | Instagram
Alex Smalley (Pausal, Circle to Square, Olan Mill) is an ambient composer based in Weimar, Germany. His works have been widely released on labels including Barge Recording, Serein, Umor Rex, and Dauw, and have featured in dance performances and films, including the Martin Scorsese’s 2012 documentary Surviving Progress. Website
Sie Medway-Smith is an artist, writer, producer and mixer. A formidable force and a constant presence in the music industry since the mid 90’s. He works with some of the most influential and innovative artists and record labels in the industry and his work has been nominated for Mobo, Mercury's and Brit Awards and has been personally nominated at The Music Producers Guild awards for Mix Engineer of the Year. Starting his music career at 19 years old as ‘tape op’ assistant engineer at Milo Studios in Hackney, London’s East End, at an exciting time in music. Lucky to have been there with a front row seat for the birth of more than a few genres, Trip Hop, Drum and Bass, Dub Step, Broken Beat to name a few, you could say his feet were on the ground in the right place at the right time. Credits include: Björk, Massive Attack, Depeche Mode, U2, Rita Ora, Rudimental, Goldfrapp, Tricky, Arca, David Guetta, Bomb The Bass, Brand New Heavies, Roy Ayes, Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Erasure, Vince Clarke, Gang of Four, Hot Natured, Jamie Jones, Malcolm McLaren, Moby, Mick Jones (The Clash), Sly & Robbie, Unkle, DJ Shadow, DJ Krush, Luke Slater, Rashid Taha, Nigo, Goldie, and Chemical Brothers. Instagram
Kerri Sonnenberg is author of the poetry collection The Mudra (Litmus Press). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in the journals: Magma, Berlin Lit, Banshee, Tears in the Fence, Abridged, Second Factory and VOLT. Originally from Illinois, she now resides in Cork, Ireland. Website | Instagram
Iris Su is a media artist based in London. Her art practice explores trash's metaphorical and material nature as a base for seeking alternative values within existing human systems. Su is inspired by the psychological theories associated with subconscious and memory mechanisms, combining them with my experience in different social and political structures. She experiments with unconventional materials through drawing, photography, moving images, sound, interactive installations, etc. Su sees her somewhat chaotic aesthetic assemblages as a tool to interrogate the interconnectedness between individuals and systems nowadays. In the context of ‘de-trashification’, her images are intertwined with decomposing old bodies and creating new forms. Su believes such a strategy can allow an artist to explore the limits of one’s own political, social, and personal freedom beyond the constraints of ideology. Website | Instagram
Al Sundvall. Originally from Wigan, UK and now based in Gothenburg, Sweden, Al Sundvall runs the artist management company Aery. Al has worked in independent music, both on and off stage, for over 20 years and currently plays in the band Bonnacons of Doom (Rocket Recordings). Instagram | Bonnacons of Doom | Aery
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Rebecca Tamás is a poet and nonfiction writer. Her first collection of poetry, WITCH was published in 2019 by Penned in the Margins. WITCH was a Guardian, Times, Telegraph, The White Review, Irish Times, The Paris Review and BBC Radio 4 Open Book Book of the Year 2019, as well as a Paris Review Staff Pick and a Poetry Society Recommendation. Rebecca's book of environmental essays, Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman, was published by Makina Press in October 2020, and was longlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2021. Rebecca's second collection of poetry is forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions. She works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing, at City St Georges, University of London.
Kate Tattersfield is a librarian living in London. She writes fiction, poetry and music, and plays the flute in Hackney Community Orchestra. Her writing has been published in various zines and journals, such as Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers, Between Shadows Press, Myth & Lore and Peculiar Mormyrid. Chapbooks she has self-published recently include The Rime of the Middle-Aged Drunkard (a retelling of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) and The Keyhole Limpet’s Revenge. She’s currently working on her first mystery novel. Soundcloud | Instagram
Sebastian Thomas is a visual artist based in the deepest suburbs of west Reading, UK. His practice spans sculpture, printmaking, painting, installation and film, central to which are the processes of collage and assemblage. These strategies allow him to freely generate ideas whilst interrogating the functions of language and how it informs our understanding of reality. His recent work has been concerned with the fevered relationship between the fiction consumed by the mind and the corporeal landscape. He is particularly interested in how it creates a breeding ground for semi-fictional objects, places and protagonists, setting the stage for a retelling where reality and story merge. This is a place in the margins, where things move in another direction, born out of the detritus of human activity on earth, the left overs, off cuts, rubbish begins to mean something, taken out of context and imbued with a new sense of purpose. Materially this manifests itself in his work through the appropriation and deconstruction of images from the sprawl of imagery that inundates us and the elevation of cheap industrial materials and discarded objects. Website | Instagram
Andert Tysma is a Dutch composer and music producer based in Berlin and Amsterdam. With a background in jazz and modern production, he creates soundscapes that blend traditional instrumentation with contemporary textures and atmospheres. His work is characterized by a strong sense of melody and a focus on creating immersive and introspective listening experiences. As a composer and producer, Tysma is constantly pushing the boundaries of his art, combining classical arrangements with modern technology to create unique soundscapes that are both grounded in the past and forward-thinking. His work has been released on the UK ambient label Apollo, and he has received widespread critical acclaim for his innovative approach to music-making.Whether he's creating ambient soundscapes, neoclassical pieces, or more experimental compositions, Tysma's music is characterized by a deep emotional resonance that speaks to listeners on a profound level. With a focus on texture and atmosphere, he creates musical journeys that are both mesmerizing and uplifting, inviting listeners to explore new musical territories and experience the world in new and exciting ways. Andert Tysma is currently working on his second album. Partly recorded in the Funkhaus, Berlin. Website | Instagram
Nam Hoang Tran is a multidisciplinary artist living in New Orleans. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in RESOURCES, bethh, Indefinite Space, Feral Dove, Action, Spectacle, and like a field, among others. W/ Henry Goldkamp, he co-edits TILT - a journal of intermedia poetics. Website
Lake Turner (aka Andrew Halford) is a musician, composer, and producer hailing from Worcestershire and now based in London. His debut album Videosphere (Kompakt, 2020) garnered critical acclaim, with The Guardian praising it for "smearing the boundaries between electronica and shoegazing." By blending emotive soundscapes with innovative production, Turner has carved out a unique space in both the electronic and ambient music worlds.Throughout his career, Turner has collaborated with electronic music icons such as Sasha and Gui Boratto, showcasing his ability to work alongside the genre's most celebrated artists. Beyond his collaborations, Lake Turner has ventured into ambient and classical crossover projects. His music has also been featured across major television networks and streaming platforms. Turner’s work has appeared in high-profile shows including Prisma (Amazon Prime), You Me Her (Netflix), Beauty and the Beast (CBS), and Swimming With Sharks (Apple TV). Instagram | Outland (Live Video) | Bandcamp
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Ned Vessey is a writer from Dorset, currently based in Bristol. His work mainly explores the relationship between landscapes and people, and the effects of each upon the other. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Nightwatchman Quarterly and is upcoming in Slightly Foxed Quarterly. Website | Instagram
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Callan Waldron-Hall is a Liverpool-based writer. His debut pamphlet, learning to be very soft, won The Poetry Business 2018/19 New Poets Prize and is published by Smith|Doorstop (2020). In 2024 he won a Northern Writers Award. His poetry has appeared in Magma, The North, The Rialto, Prototype, Bath Magg, Ink Sweat & Tears and elsewhere. He has written for The Poetry Review, Corridor8, Sphinx and Brash Games. Website | Instagram
Penny Walker has lived in London for 35 years, raising her children and freelancing. She started writing creatively in lockdown, after a career working in the environment, climate, and sustainability, as a way of spending time in a better draft of the world. Her story 4Everwon the Urban Tree Festival prize for flash fiction in 2023, and World Building is currently shortlisted for the Cordelia Feldman Prize for Life Writing. She is a student on the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck. Website
Hannah Weber is a writer, editor, and book critic based in Brighton, U.K. Her work has appeared in World Literature Today,Words Without Borders, and Asymptote, among others. She's a National Book Critics Circle member and writes predominantly about literature in translation. She's also an amatuer photographer and has participated in group exhibitions in Brighton and Glasgow. Website | Instagram
Whitelabrecs is an independent record label established in 2016 from Lincolnshire (UK) which specialises in limited edition vinyl-effect CDrs and digital editions. The label is managed by its founder Harry Towell, who records music as Glåsbird. Releases in the Whitelabrecs catalog focus on contemporary Ambient music styles such as Drone, Modern Classical and Electro Acoustic. Website | Instagram
Susie Wilson is a Scottish auDHD writer living in Sheffield. She has published two pamphlets, Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed (Verve, 2024, Disabled Poets Prize) and Skin the Rabbit (The Braag, 2025). She is currently spending a year writing, collaborating and recording with/about rivers, supported by The Arts Council, and she facilitates Manchester Poetry Library’s Sub Club. Bluesky | Instagram
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Frances Young is a UK-based artist who works with moving image and sound. Her work has been shown internationally and is in the collections of David Roberts Art Foundation (London, UK); Gemeentemuseum, Helmond (Netherlands); University of the Arts London (UK); and private collections in the UK and USA. She is a lecturer in Moving Image at the University of Brighton, and a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art. Instagram
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Anna Zumbahlen is a poet living in Southern California. Her first book, Surety, will be published by Inlandia in April 2026.