Kittie Belltree grew up in south London and has lived in west Wales for 35 years. Her debut poetry collection, Sliced Tongue and Pearl Cufflinks was published in 2019 (Parthian) and her short stories and reviews have appeared in numerous anthologies such as The Brown Envelope Book (Caparison, 2021), and the forthcoming Cast a Long Shadow (Honno, 2022). Alongside her writing, she works as a workshop facilitator, delivering creative well-being projects in schools and community settings as well as a Specialist Tutor for neurodivergent students at Aberystwyth University. She recently completed a PhD examining linguistic representations of trauma. She is also currently participating in Equal Power Equal Voice, a cross-equalities programme to increase diversity of representation in public and political life.

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Dr Tracy Breathnach is a writer, performance artist and wellbeing coach. She works across Wales and beyond as an Arts & Health consultant, including working as a part-time freelance Programme Manager for Wales Arts Health & Wellbeing Network (WAHWN). She has over 20 years of experience working in community arts both as a facilitator and arts manager. Since 2017 her focus has been primarily on arts and mental health. Her PhD research was practice-based and focused on embodied autobiographical storytelling of birth stories, in particular when there is an experience of trauma - how do we tell our stories that have no words? It was based on her own lived experience of birth trauma. Tracy has trained with Joan Davis (Ireland) in somatic practice since 2018 and she runs a regular Authentic Movement group. She is a director of a coaching company, Break Free & Thrive, working 1 to 1 with clients, as well as running personal development courses. Originally from Ireland, Tracy has lived in Wales for almost 18 years, now living in Porthcawl with her 2 sons.

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Cecilia Knapp is a poet and novelist and the Young People’s Laureate for London 2020/2021. She was shortlisted for the 2022 Forward Prize for best single poem. She is the winner of the 2021 Ruth Rendell Award and has been shortlisted for both the Rebecca Swift Women’s Prize and the Outspoken Poetry Prize. Her debut poetry collection Peach Pig was published by Corsair in 2022 and was the Observer’s poetry book of the month for October. Her poems have appeared in The Financial Times, Granta, The White Review, Wasafiri, Popshot, Ambit, Magma and bath magg and anthologised. She curated the anthology 'Everything is Going to be alright: Poems for When you Really Need Them', published by Trapeze in 2021. Her debut novel 'Little Boxes' is published by The Borough Press (Harper Collins.) In 2023, 'Little Boxes' was longlisted for The Authors Club Best First Novel Award. She teaches creative writing in a variety of settings. She was resident poet at Great Ormond Street Hospital for two years and is lead tutor for the Roundhouse’s prestigious poetry collective.

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Website: https://ceciliaknapp.com/

clare e.potter is a Welsh-speaking writer and broadcaster. Her awards include two Literature Wales Writers’ Bursaries, the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry and the Jim Criddle prize for celebrating the Welsh language. She has translated the work of the National Poet of Wales, was a Hay Festival Writer at Work and performed at the Smithsonian Folk-Life Festival, USA. She also studied and taught in New Orleans for a decade. Her current focus is on well-being and learning through nature and she has had several residencies and commissions to create work around these themes. Thanks to Arts Council funding, clare is learning poetry therapy practice. Her second collection was written with thanks to a Literature Wales Writers’ Bursary and a grant from the Society of Authors and will be published in 2024.

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Website: https://egjdad.wixsite.com/clareawenydd

Christina Thatcher is a Creative Writing Lecturer at Cardiff University. She keeps busy off campus as a tutor for The Poetry School, a member of the Literature Wales Management Board and as a freelance workshop facilitator across the UK. Her poetry and short stories have been widely published in literary magazines, including Ambit, Magma, Poetry Wales, The Poetry Review and more. She has published two poetry collections with Parthian Books: More than you were (2017) and How to Carry Fire (2020).

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Website: https://christinathatcher.com/

Iola Ynyr is a writer, playwright, director and facilitator of participatory workshops. She’s passionate about promoting the well-being of individuals and communities through creativity and connecting with the natural world. Her participatory projects include Ar y Dibyn, a project by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru for individuals living with addiction, Gwledda for Literature Wales promoting well-being in the face of climate change, together with MWY, a creative project for women and those who identify feminine. She founded Ynys Blastic with a group of artists who operate through artistic 'nudges', and Cylchdro with Sioned Medi, to voice female experiences of the world. Theatr Bara Caws recently staged 'Ffenast Siop', a play Iola co-wrote with Carys Gwilym.

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