Jen Emery is a poet living in London. She has had work published in Brittle Star, on The Poetry School blog and in The Persisters: Holding the Line magazine. She has a day job in the City. Mandy Macdonald is an Australian writer and musician living in Aberdeen, trying to make sense of the 21st century. She returned to poetry after many years via the 52 project in 2014. Music, poetry and gardening keep her sane. Her poems have appeared in anthologies from Grey Hen Press (2015–17), Luath (2016), and Beautiful Dragons Collaborations (2017), and in online and print journals such as Three Drops from a Cauldron, Poetry Scotland, The Fat Damsel, Clear Poetry, Triadae, Coast to Coast to Coast, The Curlew, and others. She was shortlisted in the 2015 Wells Poetry Festival. Rebecca Lowe is a freelance journalist, writer, editor and performing poet, based in Swansea, Wales. Her poetry has been featured on BBC Radio 4's Poetry Workshop, and has appeared in anthologies including Bristol Poetry Can, Red Poets and Blackheath Countercultural Review. In addition to poetry, she plays hammered dulcimer and zither, which she sometimes incorporates into her performances. A short collection of Becky’s poems, ‘Music of the Sea’ is available from the author. www.writerscafe.org/BeckyLowe swanmedia.wix.com/copywriter-cv Theresa Sowerby has written plays, poetry short stories. She has had an adaptation of Moliere’s The Hypochondriac performed and her poem, Migration, won first prize At the Huddersfield Literature Festival. Theresa also lectures on poetry and runs a Stanza group in Manchester.
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