Our writers

Aulic Anamika – Breathing Becoming Midori

Aulic Anamika (she/they) is a postmigrant writer of colour with South Asian heritage. Apart from science fiction she writes poetry, literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and stand-up tragedies. In 2022 she founded the Queer*ing Creative Writing Group (QCWG) in Berlin.

Mark Bowers – A Clear View

Mark could be described as a smudge you can’t get rid of. Raised in England and preoccupied with Italy and Shakespeare, he is currently wrestling an obsession with the Botanical Gardens of Padua. Mark’s botanical stories are the product of grasping the nettle.

Maria Donovan

Award-winning writer Maria Donovan lives in Dorset. Her debut novel, The Chicken Soup Murder, was a finalist for the Dundee International Book Prize and her flash fiction story, ‘Aftermath’ won the Bridport Prize. Find out more about Maria on her website

Hildegard Dumper

Hildegard was born and lived in Malaysia and Singapore until she was 16. Currently living in the UK, she continues to visit the region regularly. Now retired, she is concentrating on her writing while creating a wild-life friendly garden.

Rebecca Ferrier

Rebecca Ferrier is an award-winning writer based in Edinburgh and author of The Salt Bind (due for publication in 2026 by Renegade). Her recent prose has been published by Extra Teeth and New Gothic Review, while her poetry can be found in Poetry Ireland Review (139) and The Friday Poem. She is represented by Alex Cochran at Greyhound Literary. 

Elizabeth Gibson

Elizabeth Gibson writes stories, poems, and theatre, creates zines, and has worked with Manchester Literature Festival, The University of Manchester, Manchester Poetry Library, Manchester Pride, Portico Library, Oldham Coliseum, and Yorkshire Dance.

Elizabeth’s debut poetry collection is A love the weight of an animal (Confingo, July 2025). elizabeth-gibson.com

Thalia Henry

Thalia Henry lives in Auckland, in Aotearoa, New Zealand, but she grew up on the South Island Otago coast. She is the author of the novel Beneath Pale Water.

Tamar Hodes

Tamar Hodes is a retired teacher for whom fiction writing is a passion. Her novels are Raffy’s Shapes, The Water and the Wine and Mixed while some of her short stories are collected in The Watercress Wife and Other Stories.

Diana Powell

Diana Powell is the winner of several short story prizes. Her novella, The Sisters of Cynvael, won the Cinnamon Press Literature Award and was published in 2024. Her novel, things found on the mountain (Seren Books), was published in 2023. Her first Young Adult novel, A Different Way of Knowing, is out now (Little Grebe Books).

Clare Reddaway

Clare writes short stories and plays. Recent highlights include being long-listed for the BBC National Short Story Awards and short-listed for the Bridport Prize.

Her novella Dancing in the Shallows was published by Fairlight Books in 2024 and a short story collection is forthcoming from Axe Books.

Priyanka Sacheti

Priyanka Sacheti is a writer from Bangalore, India. Her writing has appeared in many literary journals such as Barren, Dust Mag Poetry, Common, Popshot, Lunchticket and various anthologies. She’s working on a poetry collection. She is @priyankasacheti on Twitter.

Angela Sherlock

Stories from Angela’s collection about the Irish diaspora have been published in literary journals and anthologies, and other work has appeared in online magazines. 

‘The Garden of the Non-Completer Finisher’ comes from a collection upon which she is currently working, which takes its themes from the elements of the periodic table. www.angelasherlock.com

Kate Swindlehurst

A graduate of the creative writing MA at Anglia Ruskin University, Kate Swindlehurst lives in Cambridge. She has written novels and short fiction. The Tango Effect, her memoir exploring the impact of Argentine tango on Parkinson’s disease, was published by Unbound in 2020.

Emma Timpany

Emma is a writer from the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand who loves flowers, plants, and short stories.

As well as editing Botanical Short Stories, her books include Three Roads (Red Squirrel Press), Travelling in the Dark (Fairlight Books) and Cornish Short Stories (co-editor, The History Press).