Rachel Long is a poet and founder of the Octavia Poetry Collective for Women of Colour, which is housed at the Southbank Centre, in London. Her debut collection, My Darling from the Lions, was published by Picador in the UK in 2020 and by Tin House in the US in 2021.
Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa is a British-born Barbadian-raised interdisciplinary poet, who chiefly uses dance to write. She is a multi-national and international slam champion, an Obsidian Foundation fellow, and Apples & Snakes/ Jerwood Arts Poetry in Performance recipient. Safiya’s first collection, Cane, Corn & Gully is forthcoming with Out-Spoken Press in November 2022.
Courtney Conrad is a Jamaican poet. A member of The London Library Emerging Writers Programme, Malika's Poetry Kitchen and a Barbican Young Poets. An alumnus of Obsidian Foundation and Roundhouse Poetry Collective. She is a Bridport Prize Young Writers Award recipient shortlisted for The White Review Poet's Prize, Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition and Poetry Wales Pamphlet Competition and longlisted for the Rebecca Swift Women Poets’ Prize.
Keith Jarrett is a writer, performer and academic of Jamaican heritage. His work explores Black history, religion and sexuality. A multiple poetry slam champion, he was selected for the International Literary Showcase as one of 10 outstanding LGBT UK-based writers. Keith teaches at NYU London and is completing his debut novel.
Dr Anthony Joseph is an award-winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. He is the author of four poetry collections and three novels. His 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award, and long-listed for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. His most recent publication is the experimental novel The Frequency of Magic (2019), for which he received an Arts Council England Touring award. In 2019, he was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. In 2020 a Spanish translation of Kitch was published. A Polish translation of his 2006 Afrofuturist novel The African Origins of UFOs won The Tadeusz Boy–Żeleński Translation Work Award in 2021. His "Sonnets for Albert" collection is forthcoming from Bloomsbury publishing in June 2022. As a musician, he has released eight critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamblyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at De Montfort University, Leicester.
