Angela Arnold is a writer, poet, artist, a creative gardener and an environmental campaigner. Her poems have appeared in print magazines, anthologies and online, both in the UK and elsewhere. First collection In Between: ‘inner landscapes’ and relationships (Stairwell Books, 2023). She lives in North Wales.
Carl Griffin is from South Wales. His first poetry collection, Throat of Hawthorn, was published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in 2019. His book-length poem, Arrival at Elsewhere, written for charity with the help of one hundred poets, was published by Against the Grain Press in 2020.
Caroline Renkes has just finished her Masters in Creative Writing at Swansea University where she was able to explore many different genres and disciplines of writing. She is new to the world of publication but is deeply interested in writing about Wales, politics, the human experience, and anything that might fit under the term ‘existentialism’.
Since her hearing loss, Cheryl Beer has unearthed a new career in ecomusicology & conservation filmmaking, interested in the relationships between music, sound & nature, but before this, she was a singer/songwriter, composing music & penning lyrics. Her lyrics were taken from little notebooks scattered around her home, filled with her poetic ramblings, and even though she no longer writes songs, poetry has become a way of consolidating her relationship with nature as it deepens and grows. Rising lark, is her first poetry submittance to a publication. It has embedded within it the story of her hearing loss and how nature heals her. She hoping it inspires others to recognise the importance of the natural world to our wellbeing.
Elizabeth Lockwood is a writer interested in the duality of life. Of how happiness and sadness coexist and how grief informs and changes our realities. She has written three collections of poetry, studied English Literature for seven years, is a mother of five, and lives by the sea in Carmarthenshire
Ines Benelghazi is a young British-Moroccan writer who is currently a student at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She is concerned with social and economical justice, particularly around Britain and the Arab world. She enjoys dabbling in witchcraft, making eco-friendly crafts and creating poems about women who see themselves in everyone and everything.
Ines Benelghazi is a young British-Moroccan writer who is currently a student at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She is concerned with social and economical justice, particularly around Britain and the Arab world. She enjoys dabbling in witchcraft, making eco-friendly crafts and creating poems about women who see themselves in everyone and everything.
Jack Rendell is a poet and fantasy writer raised in Mid Wales. His poetry explores imagined topographies and fantasy concepts through the lens of nonsense verse and is inspired by Welsh and other mythologies. His writing has appeared in Electric Reads, Wandrian MA Anthology and Cheval 12. Jack works in a primary school near Aberystwyth where he lives with his wife Alice and their menagerie of animals.
Jude Brigley is welsh. She has been a teacher, an editor and a performance poet. She is now writing more for the page and tends to write about her town, its history and her memories. Her poems have been widely published in magazines such as ‘Door=Jar’, ‘Gyrosope’, ‘Blue Nib’ and ‘Scissortail.’
Leigh Manley is a working-class poet and creative facilitator from the Llynfi Valley, now living in Cardiff. He writes for both adults and children and is passionate about championing working-class narratives and perspectives. As someone who turned to poetry following ill-health, his writing also explores themes of recovery, rediscovery, and ableism. His poems for adults have featured with Poetry Wales, Ink Sweat and Tears, Red Poets, The Seventh Quarry, and various anthologies. He is especially proud to see his poems featured within two anthologies of firsts in Wales: ‘Yer Ower Voices,’ an anthology of poems in dialect from Cymru, and ‘Beyond/Tu Hwnt,’ an anthology of writing from deaf and disabled people in Wales. His poems for children have featured with The Dirigible Balloon and Northern Gravy. Thanks to support from Literature Wales, Leigh has recently established a new writing squad in Maesteg for children in Year 7 and 8.
Lloyd Edwards is a member of Elysium writing group in Swansea. His works include traditional and experimental poetry and short fictional stories.
His main interests are nature, and the psychological nature of the human condition.
Mike Everley was born in the mining valleys of South Wales and now lives in Swansea. He has had fiction and poetry published in the Anglo Welsh Review, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, Outposts, Cardiff Poet, Undiscovered Poet, Entheoscope, Poetry News (Poetry Society), Lothlorien Online Poetry Journal and 5-7-5 Haiku Online Journal etc. One of his poems was recently published in Acumen and he will have poetry in this year’s issues of Red Poet and The Seventh Quarry. He has also had articles published in general, specialist and literary magazines and journals. He regularly reads at Open Mic events in South Wales. He was a member of both the NUJ and the Society of Authors before retirement. He has tutored on courses run by the London School of Journalism, RRC and Writers’ News.
Nick Pallot, a retired teacher, has recently moved to Swansea from Kent to be near his family who work here.
Ryan O’Neill is a writer from Cork, Ireland and based in Cardiff, Wales. He enjoys writing short fiction and poetry and his work has featured in Ink, Sweat and Tears. You can find him on both Instagram – roneill9414 – and X – @Roneill1994.