Tom Bailey for Bonaly Reservoir

Tom Bailey is a poet and editor based in Edinburgh. His debut pamphlet, Please Do Not Touch or Feed the Horses, won an Eric Gregory Award in 2025 and a Somerset Maugham Award in 2026. He works as a support worker and edits the online poetry magazine And Other Poems.

Read a selection of Tom’s poems here.

Zainab Imran for You enter the Museum and Leave your Shoes at the Door

Zainab Imran is a poet, facilitator and museum worker based in Edinburgh. In 2022, Zainab won the Royal Society of Literature Sky Arts Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in 2024. Her work has appeared in Gutter, Propel, Wasafiri and fourteen poems.

Read a selection of Zainab’s poems here.

Flora Leask Arizpe for The Little Distance

Flora Leask Arizpe is a poet and writer from Glasgow who has lived in Mexico, Spain, and now Dublin, completing her Master’s in Comparative Literature at Trinity. Her work can be found in publications such as Gutter and Propel Magazine. Flora is a member of the UK/Barcelona artist collective ‘Age of Concern’ and won the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2025. She is working on her first poetry pamphlet and collection.

Read a selection of Flora’s poems here.

Kate Millar for Egg Heart

Kate Millar is a poet and educator from Edinburgh. She completed her MFA in Poetry at The New School in New York City. Her poetry can be found in atmospheric quarterly, Cutleaf Journal, Gutter, and elsewhere; her criticism can be found in Cleveland Review of Books, and LA Review of Books.

Read a selection of Kate’s poems here.

Caitlin Palmer for Relations

Caitlin Palmer is an American-born writer and Master’s student at the University of Edinburgh. She credits her grandfather for introducing her to the joy of reading and her upbringing in rural Connecticut for fostering her love of writing, having given her both gorgeous scenery and space to breathe, and the generous support of her teachers, friends, and family.

Read a selection of Caitlin’s poems here.