Catrin Mari
Catrin Mari is an autistic social scientist with a background in the heritage sector, based in Cardiff. She uses poetry to break barriers to engaging with academic research. Her poetry deals with themes of sense of place, uncovering stories of under-appreciated historic figures, and shifting identities including as a Welsh and neurodivergent person.
Her work is due to be published in an anthology of Welsh radical poetry, an online zine about the valleys, a collection raising money for mental health charity, Mind; and Disabled Tales, a literary magazine exploring disabled fairytale figures. She regularly performs her poetry in Cardiff and online.
Barbara Hughes-Moore
Barbara is a writer and law lecturer from Cardiff. Her research, teaching, and creative writing is concerned with the Gothic, haunted by ghosts and the spectres of lives, and loves, unled. Her short stories have been published by Horror Scribes, Roath Writers and The Folks.
Sue Regan
Sue Regan was born in South Wales, her childhood punctuated by the Flat Holm foghorn. She is still drawn to the sounds of the sea, and writes about longing and connections. Recently, she has been encouraged to share her writing with others, and to read at local events.
In 2024, she has had poetry published for the first time, at Diamond Twig: https://ellenswriting.home.blog/poem-of-the-month-2/ and in Dreich.
Angela Graham
Angela Graham is from Northern Ireland. She has had an award-winning career as a film maker in Wales, is a Fellow of the Institute of Welsh Affairs and a Welsh-speaker.
Seren Books published her collection of poetry, Sanctuary: There Must Be Somewhere 2022 and her collection of short stories, A City Burning 2020 (long-listed for the Edge Hill Prize). She won the Poetry Prize in the inaugural Linen Hall Ulster-Scots Writing Competition, 2021. Her poetry collection Star is out this summer from Culture And Democracy Press. @angelagraham8
Elizabeth Lockwood
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 two collections of poetry, studied English Literature for seven years, is a mother of five, and lives by the sea in Carmarthenshire
Angela Arnold
Angela Arnold’s poetry has been published widely in print magazines as well as online, in the UK and elsewhere. Her poems have also been included in anthologies produced by Templar, Frogmore Press, Eyewear, Arachne Press and others, including the The Best of new British and Irish Poets 2019-2021. First collection In|Between , about ‘inner landscapes’ and relationships (Stairwell Books, 2023). She is also an artist, a creative gardener and an environmental campaigner who lives in North Wales. She enjoys her synaesthesia and language/s and is currently (permanantly!) learning Welsh. Twitter/X @AngelaArnold777
Charly White
Charly White is a poet, author and musician from Wales. Her writing focuses on mindfulness, nature, and well-being. She released her first poetry book: A Collection of Wildflowers (Arkbound UK) in March 2024. Her poems are featured in the anthology Mental Health and Poetry for Mental Health (Robin Barratt), the online literary journal Poemstellium, and the literary magazine Coffee People Zine. You can follow her journey @the.poetrygarden on instagram.
M.R.Smith
M.R.Smith is a poet and fiction writer from South Wales. Her work has been published in Zines’ such as Myth & Lore Zine and themed Zines from Coin Operated Press. M.R.Smith loves writing about her relationship with nature and adores all things folklore. She hopes to publish her first chapbook of poetry this year.
Guinevere Clark
Guinevere Clark holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University, on the poetics of motherhood, sexuality, and place, exploring liminal spaces, gender inequality and the mother-child relationship. She teaches poetry at Swansea’s Taliesin Arts Centre. Recent award short listings are: The Wales Poetry Award, Poetry London, Hammond House, Cinnamon Press, and a longlisting in The Nature Chronicles Prize. She’s published widely: Poetry Wales, Atlanta Review, Magma, Minerva Rising and Demeter Press. She leads Poetry Into Light, an enterprise that celebrates and empowers community through poetry. Her first collection is Fresh Fruit & Screams (Bluechrome, 2006).
Sheila Jacob
Sheila Jacob lives in N.E.Wales with her husband. She has lived in Wales for fifty years but was born and raised in Birmingham and finds her Brummie heritage a rich source of inspiration. Her poems have appeared in various magazines and e-zines including The High Window, Atrium, Black Nore Review, and her debut pamphlet with Yaffle Press, Spotlit Under Street Lamps, has recently been published.
George Sandifer-Smith
George Sandifer-Smith is a Welsh poet, originally from Pembrokeshire. He has published two books of poetry, Empty Trains (Broken Sleep Books, 2022) and Nights Travel at the Right Speed (Infinity Books UK, 2022). He is currently the Reviews Editor at Poetry Wales Magazine, a position he has held since 2022. He has previously edited the poetry anthology The Wait in aid of Cancer Research, and also was guest poetry editor for the inaugural issue of Abergavenny Small Press Journal. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Wales, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Stockholm Review, New Welsh Review, Atrium, and numerous anthologies including Poems from Pembrokeshire (Seren Books, 2019), Hit Points – an Anthology of Video Game Poetry (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), and Anne-thology: Poems Re-Presenting Anne Shakespeare (Broken Sleep Books, 2023).
In 2019, he was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing by Aberystwyth University. As well as writing poetry, he has also published fiction with Gwyllion Magazine and Inventive Podcast (Overtone Productions, 2021). His first children’s book, Cholloo’s Birthday, a collaboration with artist Julia Ashby Smyth, was published by Lily in 2014. He lives with his wife, and their rescue cat Deli.
Carolyn Thomas
Carolyn Thomas is from Tonna, a village in the Neath Valley in South Wales, but has lived on Tyneside since her days as a student at Newcastle University. Now retired after a career of teaching in Further, Higher and Adult Education, she is now enjoying the freedom to write.
She has reviewed for Stand and published poetry in Dreich, Impossible Archetype, The Ekphrastic Review and elsewhere as well as stories in two anthologies published by Honno Press, Lipstick Eyebrows and Painting the Beauty Queens Orange, which contains her account of life as a gay woman in the 1970s. She lives with a misanthropic cat, still thinks of Wales as home and, stereotypically, sports a dragon tattoo.
Gareth Writer-Davies
Gareth Writer-Davies is from Pencelli, Wales. His work has been recognized multiple times in various competitions, including being shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2014 and 2017. He was also commended in the Prole Laureate Competition in 2015 and 2021, and was named the Prole Laureate for 2017. Gareth received commendations in the Welsh Poetry Competition in 2015 and was highly commended in 2017. In 2023, he won the Wirral Festival Poetry Competition and was the runner-up in the Spelt Poetry Competition. In 2024, he was the runner-up in the Mid Wales Poetry Prize. Gareth was a Hawthornden Fellow in 2019.
His published works include Bodies (2015) and Cry Baby (2017) by Indigo Dreams. He has also published The Lover’s Pinch (2018), The End (2019), and Wysg (2022) by Arenig Press.