Arji Manuelpillai is a poet, performer and creative facilitator based in London. For over 15 years, Manuelpillai has worked with community arts projects nationally and internationally. Recently, he was the Jerwood/Arvon Mentee mentored by Hannah Lowe. Manuelpillai is a member of Malika's Poetry Kitchen and London Stanza. Manuelpillai’s debut pamphlet, Mutton Rolls, was published with Out-Spoken Press…
Read MoreGurnaik Johal is a writer and editor from West London. We Move, his first book, is published by Serpent’s Tail and includes ‘Arrival’, the winner of the 2022 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Award and ‘The Piano’, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Guardian 4th Estate Story Prize…
Read MoreSheena Patel is a writer and assistant director for film and TV who was born and raised in north-west London. She is part of the 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE collective, has been published in 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE (Rough Trade Books) and a poetry collection of the same name (FEM Press). In 2022 she was chosen as one of The Observer's top 10 best debut novelists. I’m a Fan is her first book…
Read MoreJames Cahill has worked in both the art world and academia for the last ten years, combining writing and research with a role at a leading contemporary art gallery. He is currently a Fellow in classics at King’s College London. His writing has been published in the TLS, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the London Review of Books and The Burlington Magazine, among other publications…
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