Eleanor May Blackburn is a writer/actor/theatre-maker from Sheffield. She writes about mental health, disability, misogyny and sex politics mostly. You can find her guzzling tea at the Crucible or wearing white eyeliner at a local open mic. 100ish: Eleanor is a neurodivergent, working class, disabled, queer actor/writer/theatre-maker/poet from Sheffield. She had her first Chapbook GhostRead more about Eleanor May Blackburn[…]
National Centre for Early Music York Fri 29 November 7pm for 7.30 £8/£5 conc, carers free, service dogs welcome! https://ncem.co.uk/events/poetry-for-all/ Poetry For All is an annual event designed to provide disabled poets and audiences a live poetry event with as many barriers removed as possible: – Level floor throughout – Excellent acoustics for blind/VI folksRead more about Stairwell Books supporting Poetry for All 2024 at the NCEM on 29 Nov at 7.30[…]
S C Paterson (Sue Paterson) has a background in social work. Her first degree was in philosophy and those knotty questions of free will and consciousness are present in her writing. Her story The Happy Day Restaurant was shortlisted for the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize of 2016. Sue’s interests include playing the board game Go,Read more about S.C. Paterson[…]
David Hill is a Scottish author, currently based in England, whose work combines fiction and art history. He is a graduate of Edinburgh University’s Creative Writing Programme (MA Distinction). Whilst studying for an MA in Art History from Birkbeck College, University of London, for which he received a Distinction, he became fascinated with reclaiming exploitedRead more about David Hill[…]
British and American author L.A. Robbins published what is being praised as an arresting and innovative short story collection in 2022: Unspooling the Light. First placed in UK, US and European journals, these stories reflect insights from memorable experiences in Scotland, England and abroad. A recent story made the long list for the Fish PublishingRead more about L. A. Robbins[…]
Jo Somerset is based in Manchester. She completed a MA in Creative Writing in May 2020 at the University of Salford, where she received the Leanne Bridgewater Award for Innovation and Experiment. Like Isla, Jo grew up in Birmingham with an unspoken Celtic heritage. A love of the Hebrides and her experience with a blendedRead more about Jo Somerset[…]
Neurodivergent, prize-winning haiku poet who has enjoyed competition success in Japan, the USA, Poland, and Canada, including the prestigious ‘Mainichi International Haiku Competition’, organised by one of Japan’s biggest newspapers. Published in many journals dedicated to the haiku form, as well as featuring on the poetry superhighway website and appearing on public display in WashingtonRead more about Jonathan Aylett[…]
Sarah Wimbush is a Doncaster poet who lived in Leeds for 22 years. Her first collection, Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands, was published with Bloodaxe in 2022. She is the author of two prize-winning pamphlets: The Last Dinosaur in Doncaster (Smith|Doorstop, 2021) and Bloodlines (Seren, 2020). She has also placed in severalRead more about Sarah Wimbush[…]
Doreen Hinchliffe is a retired teacher who comes from Yorkshire but has lived in London for many years. She has two previous poetry collections – Dark Italics (Indigo Dreams, 2017) and Substantial Ghosts (Oversteps Books, 2020). In 2011, her Christmas sonnet sequence, The Pointing Star, was recorded by Live Canon and included in their PoemsRead more about Doreen Hinchliffe[…]
Stella Davis is a poet who was able to give up the day job in 1999 thanks to an Arts Council initiative, which aimed to put “1000 artists in 1000 unusual places”. Her “unusual place” was the port of Southampton, where her hosts were members of Southampton Cargo Handling, then the only stevedores’ co-operative inRead more about Stella Davis[…]
