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CONTRIBUTORS ANGELA JEFFS moved to Japan in 1986 (after twenty years editing books and magazines in London), reinventing herself as a journalist, writer and writing guide. She is now based in Scotland where, as well as leading writing workshops, she is currently writing and curating a collaborative archive-directed diary with students and other writers. She has published three books and is halfway through her memoirs. Website: www.angelajeffs.com BETH HARTLEY is a poet of people and place; the transient and the eternal. ‘I make: home, faith, work, words and dinner. Itchy preacher, always Mama’. Beth is part of the FenSpeak team, running and hosting Ely’s main poetry night. Her first poetry collection, What if Stars, is out now with Allographic Press. https://linktr.ee/PoetryBees Dr CHARLEY BARNES is an author and academic from Worcestershire. She is a lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Wolverhampton, a workshop facilitator, and editor. She writes both poetry – most recently Myth | Woman, co-authored with Claire Walker – and fiction published under the name of Charlotte. Twitter @charleyblogs Website: www.charleybarneswriter.com CHRISTINE ANNE FOLEY Christine Foley is a Dublin-based writer from Kilkenny with a degree in English from Trinity College Dublin and a master’s in Creative Writing from Oxford University. Her play Let Your Hair Down was performed at the Burton Taylor Studio in Oxford. Her work has appeared in Skirting Around, Neurological, and Sonder Magazine. She recently won first prize in the Michael Mullen Flash Fiction Competition 2021. Instagram: @yellowpolkadotbikiniblog DAHLIA AL-SHELLEBY is a doctor working in London. When she’s not at the hospital, she enjoys writing fiction, delving into adventures on her bike, organising murder mysteries and games nights for friends, and incessantly making memes of/for her colleagues. Her infectious enthusiasm and uplifting nature have earned her the title of Wellbeing Champion during the pandemic. Dr EMMA FILTNESS (she/her) is a queer, disabled writer and lecturer in Creative Writing at Brunel University London. Emma has recently published visual poems and essays with Osmosis Press and Fruit Journal, among others. Twitter: @Em_Filtness & @poetrycoterie Instagram: @wight_aconite
