Gordon Anderson writes poems, monologues, and short fiction, sometimes about love and the end of the world. His 2022 digital EP ‘Hotel Familiar’ includes poems accompanied by the work of musician Spencer Segelov, whilst the recent book review video series 'Gord Reads' is a collaboration with the Just Another Poet YouTube channel. He is a regular open mic performer and lives in Cardiff, where he organises literary events through his work in public libraries.

Llinos Anwyl (they/them) is a creative researcher and grassroots organiser who's currently unionising tenants in Aberystwyth and Machynlleth. Their written work is driven by a commitment to unearthing radical histories and sharing anarchist analysis. With many political works being inaccessible, Llinos hopes to inspire others by sharing multi-media creations about collectivism without using jargon. They also make work as @henbapurnewydd on Instagram.

Gosia Buzzanca is a writer working across genres to create immersive, rich and texturally unique pieces of work touching on themes of motherhood, childhood, class, memories and belonging. She is a winner of W&A Working-Class Writers’ Prize 2022. She graduated with distinction from a Creative Writing MA. Gosia was published in the ‘Places Like Home’ anthology as well as in the ‘Where I’m Coming From’ anthology. She was born in Poland and moved to the UK at the age of 19, eventually settling in South Wales where she now lives and works.

Lal Davies is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, and poet with South Indian and Southern Irish heritages. Three generations of her Indian family have been born in North Wales since coming to the UK in 1919. Lal’s practices include first-person narrative/short documentary filmmaking and a multidisciplinary practice using film, photography, and poetry as distinct disciplines and at the blurred edges where they meet. In 2023 Lal will: show work at Oriel C A R N’s Benywaidd; work as an Honorary Research Fellow (Amgueddfa Cymru) relating to Wales’ involvement in the British Empire, colonialism, anti-colonialism, race, representation and national identity; as a Creative Practitioner on Cynefin culturally and ethnically diverse Wales (Arts Council of Wales); film-maker for Stronger Together Ty Pawb Multicultural Hub; film-maker/researcher on People Like Us (NWREN/Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan) and selected writer on Re-Writing Wales by Literature Wales.

Merlin Gable is a writer, independent academic and trade unionist from the Black Mountains. He is a contributing editor of The Welsh Agenda, where he has written on border identity, Welsh culture and myth, and Raymond Williams.

Joshua Jones is a queer, autistic writer and artist from Llanelli, South Wales, now residing in Cardiff. He has been published by Poetry Wales, Gutter Magazine, Broken Sleep Books, Welsh Arts Review, and others. He has been commended by the Poetry Society, shortlisted for the Rhys Davies Short Story Prize and came third in the Reflex Fiction Flash Fiction Prize, Winter 2021. He is the Director of Dyddiau Du, a DIY community library and art/lit space in Cardiff. He released a collaborative pamphlet of cut-up poetry and art with Caitlin Flood-Molyneux in 2022, and his debut short story collection, ‘Local Fires’, will be published by Parthian in Autumn 2023.

Bethany Handley (she/ her) is a writer and disability activist from Monmouthshire. Her poetry has been published in POETRY, Poetry Wales and on the the Institute of Welsh Affairs and the Poetry Foundation, amongst other publications. Bethany was one of the writers on the Sherman Theatre’s Unheard Voices Scheme and she recently developed a writing retreat for young Welsh d/Deaf and Disabled writers with novelist Megan Angharad Hunter thanks to a commission from Literature Wales and Natural Resources Wales. Bethany’s work typically explores ableism, inaccessibility and her relationship with nature as a Disabled woman. (Twitter- @Bethany1Handley)

Theresa Mgadzah Jones is a Zimbabwean mother and grandmother living in Cardiff. She trained as a primary school teacher and taught in Inner City London and in December 2022, retired after 16 years working for the British Red Cross Refugee Support Services in Wales. She is an avid reader with an ambition to write children's books, and hopes that retirement will provide her the opportunity and time to focus on writing, along with looking after her grandchild.

Theo Malings (she/her/hi) is a dyslexic Anglo-Welsh writer and unpaid carer living in a picturesque North Walian village that really deserves its own crime-solving pensioner. She mainly writes comedic book club fiction about women who are the smartest person in the room but has also been found having churlish opinions in ‘The Bookseller’. In summer 2020, she was longlisted for Penguin Random House’s #WriteNow program for people underrepresented in publishing; she is open about the effect dyslexia has on her life and is keen to raise awareness of the challenges it brings. Her current project is set in the coastal towns of the Flintshire/Denbighshire borders although she’s not sure they are going to thank her for it.

Martha O'Brien is a writer, researcher and editor from Cardiff. She is co-founder and co-editor of ‘nawr’ magazine, an online publication which showcases new work from Welsh and Wales-based writers, artists and photographers. Managed entirely voluntarily with a small team, ‘nawr’ has released nine issues since its inception in 2020 and in 2022 hosted their first Summer Festival, a two-week exhibition and programme of talks. Martha is currently in her third year of studying for her PhD in English Literature, specialising in Derridean readings of Welsh writing in English which is funded by the SWW-DTP2. In 2022, she hosted an event in conversation with photographer David Hurn at These3Streams Festival and appeared on ITV's ‘Backstage’ programme to talk about Welsh writing. Throughout her work, she is passionate about the need for elevating and showcasing arts and culture in economically and socially marginalised communities.

Gwenno is 20 years old and comes from the Swansea area. She is a second-year student at Cambridge University studying for a degree in Politics and International Relations. Since a young age she has enjoyed writing creatively in both Welsh and English, and has competed in many literary competitions as well as the Eisteddfod. Since moving to England for university, she faces questions of Welshness and identity beyond Welsh borders, and has found this to be a prominent theme throughout her non-fiction and journalistic writing. While at university, she has been editing the Cambridge Language Collective magazine and the prose section of 'The Mays'. She contributes regular articles to the ‘Varsity’ newspaper in Cambridge, mainly discussing her experience of being Welsh there. She is also in the middle of producing a documentary film for the paper on Cambridge Welsh, titled 'The Welsh from Home'.

Silvia is a writer and tutor born and raised in Eryri. After graduating with an English Literature and Creative Writing BA from the University of East Anglia, she travelled around Europe and South America eventually settling in Granada, Spain, where she lived for two years teaching English. Having returned home to the mountains, she now runs creative writing workshops in her local area alongside her freelance roles. In 2021, she published her first poetry collection, ‘Spell into Being’, and is currently working on nonfiction projects. Her writing is largely inspired by travel, myth, raw experience and her Welsh-Serbian roots.

Talulah likes working with text and the spoken word exploring intersections of language and futurism. They explore the effects of their native landscape on the way they speak and engage with the Welsh language. Talulah thinks about ideas of mourning and loss - how do you narrate memories of a language lost?

Rebecca Wilson (She/Her/Hi) is a Welsh and Jewish actor, writer and fight choreographer from Dinorwig, Gwynedd. Since studying at both Arts Ed and East 15 Acting School she has worked for Theatr Clwyd, Cwmni Theatr Arad Goch, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, MET Film School, London Film School, BBC Radio Wales, Sherman Theatre, Brixton House, National Theatre Productions & Frantic Assembly in various creative capacities. She is looking forward to working on her non-fiction writing and developing her voice further.