Amber Dawn

Amber Dawn lives on Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, Canada). She’s authored two novels, Sub Rosa and Sodom Road Exit; three poetry collections, and How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir.

Arden Fitzroy

Arden Fitzroy is a writer-poet, actor, fighter, and producer. They believe in experimentation and blurring the boundaries of genre, gender, and art forms. Instagram/Bluesky: @ArdenFitzroy

Arlo Kean

Arlo Kean is a writer/creative based in East London. Their work has been published with T’ART Press and Ink Sweat and Tears.

Ben Dalitz

Ben Dalitz is a poet, artist, and campaigner. Their work has been published in Bi+ Lines: An Anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poets and Issue 12 of fourteen poems. When they write and dream queer liberation, they do so in deep solidarity with the people of Palestine.

Cat Chong

Cat Chong is a poet, essayist, and publisher who completed their PhD at NTU, Singapore in 2024. Their work considers the intersections between gender, genre, and disability in experimental poetics.

Catherine Balaq

Catherine Balaq is a writer and psychotherapist.  She is co-editor of Black Cat Press. Her debut collection, animaginary, was published in 2023. Deathless, her second collection, was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2024. Catherine also writes novels.

Chloë Clarke

Chloë Clarke is a queer, disabled poet. They are the former Young Poet Laureate of Worcestershire and currently live in London with their partner and silly sausage of a dog.

Claire Sosienski Smith

Claire Sosienski Smith is a neurodivergent poet based in Deptford, London. Their work has appeared in Prolit, Porridge, and Bell Press, and they are part of Resonance Poetry Collective.

Cleo Henry

Cleo Henry (they/them) is a London-based poet with an interest in queerness, giant squid, and the apocalypse. They released their first pamphlet, The Last Lesbian Bar in the Midlands, with fourteen poems. They have also been published in Ambit and Selkie, and by Banshee Press, Cipher Press, Pilot Press, and Broken Sleep Books.

Deviji RM Jaani-Jaan

Deviji RM Jaani-Jaan is a shape-shifting, multi-armed, QTIPOC, effable Goddess, frequently found fully prepared for any sensual delight: clutching lube, a hitachi magic wand, radar key, cbd gummies, a flask of empress grey tea, a hot water bottle, and a yummy vegan protein-filled snack. They also write, make film, art, and mischief. @devijijaan

Dylan McNulty-Holmes

Dylan McNulty-Holmes is the author of Survivalism for Hedonists (Querencia Press 2023) and Half a Million Mothers (shortlisted for the 2022 New Media Writing Prize). More at dylanmcnultyholmes.com.

Elena Sichrovsky

Elena Sichrovsky (she/they/it) is a queer disabled writer with a profound love for body horror. Their debut chapbook Eating Out Anne Sexton was released with Ghost City Press in 2024.

Elspeth Wilson

Elspeth Wilson is a Scottish writer and poet. She is the author of Too Hot to Sleep (Written Off Publishing, 2023) and These Mortal Bodies (Simon and Schuster, 2025).

Gayathiri Kamalakanthan

Gayathiri Kamalakanthan is a Tamil poet and performer. They won the Disabled Poets Prize 2024 and their novel-in-verse, Bad Queer, is forthcoming with Faber. gayathiri.co.uk Instagram: @unembarrassable

George Parker

George Violet Parker is a Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Space Crone Prize-nominated queer disabled writer, performer, co-op founder, and facilitator. Publications include collaborative pamphlet Not Your Orlando (Punk Dust), Twisted Roots (Reconnecting Rainbows), and their debut collection Gynandromorph (Written Off). Other publications include Mslexia, Financial Times, Arachne Press, Bi+ Lines, and more.

Idony Lewis

Idony Lewis is a queer-crip poet and short fiction writer dwelling in the North. Their writing has been published by Queer Bodies (Broken Sleep Books), The Poetry Business, A Velvet Giant, The Remote Body, and many others.

Jackson Phoenix Nash

Jackson Phoenix Nash (he/him) is a queer trans poet from Essex. His debut pamphlet, Some People are Trains, was published by Little Betty in 2024.

Jem Henderson

Jem Henderson is a genderqueer poet from Leeds. an othered mother and their collaborative project GenderFux came out in 2022 and MotherFlux, its sequel in 2024. A collection with Chris Cambell, small plates, is out now.

Jessica Whyte

Jessica Whyte is a queer, disabled/neurodivergent writer and artist from East Sussex, with poems previously published by Paper Swans Press and Ó Bhéal, and artwork featured in t’ART online.

John McCullough

John McCullough lives in Hove. His third book of poems, Reckless Paper Birds (Penned in the Margins) won the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature, as well as being shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. Previous collections have been Books of the Year for the Guardian and the Independent, and he also won the Polari First Book Prize. His poem “Flower of Sulphur” was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. His fourth collection, Panic Response, was published in March 2022 by Penned in the Margins.

JP Seabright

JP Seabright is a queer disabled writer living in London. They have six solo pamphlets published and four collaborations, encompassing poetry, prose, and experimental work. They have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Forward Prize, and shortlisted (twice) for a Saboteur Award for Best Collaborative Work. They are co-editor of the effa-able anthology.

Karl Knights

Karl Knights’ poetry has appeared in the Forward Book of Poetry 2024. He won the 2021 New Poets Prize. His debut pamphlet, Kin, appeared in 2022. He lives in Suffolk.

Katie (Tom) Walters

Katie (Tom) Walters is a nonbinary poet making work about love and compost. They are deeply interested in the transformative and the weird, writing strange words about the historically fraught relationship between disabled bodies and nature.

Libro Levi Bridgeman

Libro Levi Bridgeman wrote the sell-out theatre show The Butch Monologues. Short stories include “For Ezra”, now a stop-motion film. They co-run hotpencil press with Serge Nicholson. They are featured in the doco “Private View”.

Madailín Burnhope

Madailín Burnhope (she/her) is a widely published Disabled, transfemme writer from Warwickshire, UK. Her poem ‘You Wouldn’t Last Five Minutes as a Woman’ was Highly Commended in the 2024 Forward Prizes.

Marlena Chertock

Marlena Chertock is a disabled, lesbian, Jewish poet with two books of poetry, Crumb-sized: Poems and On that one-way trip to Mars. She uses her skeletal dysplasia as a bridge to scientific poetry.

Max Wallis

Max Wallis is a poet and journalist exploring queerness, survival, and mental health. Max is the founder of The Aftershock Review, a new poetry magazine devoted to exploring the aftershocks of experience.

Mollie Russell

Mollie Russell is a bisexual autistic poet and journalist living in Wales. Her poems often explore gender and disability through the lenses of pop culture and monstrosity.

nat raum

nat raum (b. 1996, Baltimore, MD, USA) is the editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press. They’re the author of this book will not save you and many others.

Petra Kuppers

Petra Kuppers is a German disability culture activist and community performance artist. Her fourth poetry collection is the true crime/ecopoetry-themed Diver Beneath the Street (2024). She teaches at the University of Michigan.

Rae White

Rae White is the queer-trans author of award-winning poetry collections Milk Teeth and Exactly As I Am. Their debut picture book All the Colours of the Rainbow is out now.

Raman Mundair

Raman Mundair FRSL is an Indian-born, director, writer, artist, activist, filmmaker, and playwright. They are a graduate of the National Film and Television School and were shortlisted as a writer and director for BFI Sharp Shorts. Raman was longlisted for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative Award, and the Margaret Tait Award, and is a winner of the Robert Louis Stevenson Award, and recipient of an ALL3Media Scholarship, and a Leverhulme Fellowship.

Rebecca Kenny

Rebecca Kenny (she/her) is a pansexual poet and education consultant from Cheshire. She is dedicated to increasing equity in both education and the arts, and is the Founder of Written Off Publishing, a small press amplifying marginalised voices.

Rick Dove

Rick Dove is a black, queer, and disabled writer from South London. Widely anthologised since 2016, Rick became UK Poetry Slam Champion in 2021, and has published two solo collections.

Rosamund Taylor

Rosamund Taylor’s collection, In Her Jaws (Banshee Press 2022), was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize

Sara Cline

Sara Cline is a poet, comedian, University of Washington MFA alumna, and recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. Sara was born and bred in Plano, Texas.

Scarlett Ward

Scarlett Ward is the Staffordshire Poet Laureate 2024–26. She was shortlisted for the Women Poet’s Prize 2022 and works as Editor in Chief at Fawn Press Publishing.

Tallon Kennedy

Tallon Kennedy is a chronically ill queer poet, scholar, and teacher from Columbus, Ohio. Their poetry has been published in Frontier Poetry, Rust + Moth, and The Mantle.

Will Darling

Will Darling is an artist, writer, and transsexual menace. He is the author of Gay Cabin and lives in Seattle, Washington.