Titilayo Farukuoye is an Austrian-Nigerian writer, educator and organiser based in Glasgow. They co-direct the Scottish BPOC Writers Network, and their debut pamphlet, In Wolf’s Skin, was published by Stewed Rhubarb Press in 2024.

Roshni Gallagher is a poet based in Edinburgh. She was the recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writer’s Award for Poetry in 2022 and her debut pamphlet, Bird Cherry, was published by Verve Press in 2023. In 2024 she was awarded the James Berry Poetry Prize and will publish her debut full-length collection with Bloodaxe Books in 2026.

Alyson Kissner is a Canadian-born poet and recent PhD graduate in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. She was shortlisted for the Rebecca Swift Foundation’s Women Poets’ Prize in 2022 and placed second in the 2023 Bridport Poetry Prize.

Michael Mullen is a poet and spoken word artist writing in English and Scots. Their debut collection, Goonie (Corsair, 2025), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, won The List’s Best Rising Scottish Author Award, and was nominated for the Scots Language Award’s Scots Book of the Year.

Nasim Rebecca Asl is a poet, performer, event chair and writing workshop facilitator. She received a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for Poetry in 2021, and her debut pamphlet, Nemidoonam, was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2023.

Jay Gao is a poet from Edinburgh, now living in New York City. In 2023 his debut collection, Imperium (Carcanet, 2022), won a Somerset Maugham Award, an Eric Gregory Award, and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize.

Iona Lee is a poet, performer and artist from Edinburgh. In 2022, she won the John Byrne award for her poetry film, Away with the Fairies. Her debut collection Amamnesis (Polygon, 2023) won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2024.

Bibi June Schwithal creates performance poetry and spoken word theatre. Their recent pamphlets include Kinsey Scale for the Emotionally Fragile Queer, Critique of the Criminal Justice System, and Begin Again.

Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland. Her debut collection, Another Way to Split Water (Polygon, 2022), was shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award 2023 and the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award 2023. In 2023, she won the Nan Shepherd Prize for her non-fiction debut A Beautiful and Vital Place, forthcoming with Canongate.

Colin Bramwell is a poet and performer from the Black Isle. He writes in and translates into English and Scots. His translation of Ko-Hua Chen’s Decapitated Poetry won the 2024 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. Fower Pessoas, a volume of Fernando Pessoa versions in Scots, was published by Carcanet in 2025.

Michael Grieve is a poet and secondary school teacher from Fife. His one-poem publication, Luck, was published by HappenStance Press, and other poems have appeared in Gutter, Bad Lilies, The Friday Poem, Perverse, The Dark Horse, Interpret, and The Dirigible Balloon.

Kirsten Kerr is a Glasgow-based poet, originally from Aberdeen.

David Ross Linklater is a poet from Balintore, Easter Ross. He has published four pamphlets, most recently Star Muck Bourach (Wish Fulfillment Press, 2022). He won the 10th Ó Bhéal International Poetry Competition, was awarded joint first place in the 2022 Neil Gunn Poetry Competition, and is the recipient of a Dewar Arts Award.

Paul Malgrati is a poet and academic from France and writes verse in both Scots and French. His debut collection, Poèmes Ecossais, was published by Blue Diode Press in 2022.

Stewart Sanderson is a poet from Glasgow, who has published and performed widely in the UK and internationally. He is the author of the pamphlets Fios (2015) and An Offering (2018), as well as the book-length collection The Sleep Road (2021). His most recent collection, Weathershaker, was published by Tapsalteerie in 2025. He is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award as well as Robert Louis Stevenson and Jessie Kesson Fellowships.

Roseanne Watt is a poet, filmmaker and musician from Shetland. Her dual-language debut poetry collection, Moder Dy (Polygon 2019), was named joint-winner of the Highland Book Prize in 2019, and received both an Eric Gregory and Somerset Maugham
Award in 2020. In 2023 she was named one of the Saltire Society’s ’40 Under 40’ in the literature category.

Daisy Lafarge is a writer and artist based in Glasgow. Her debut poetry collection, Life Without Air (Granta, 2020), was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2020 and awarded the Saltire Society’s Scottish Poetry Book of the Year in 2021. Lovebug, a book on the poetics of infection, was published by Peninsula Press in 2023.

Tom Docherty is a poet, organist and choir director. His debut poetry collection, If the Mute Timber, was published by Shearsman Books in 2022. His monograph Geoffrey Hill and the Ends of Poetry was published by Manchester University Press in 2024.

Nadine Aisha Jassat is a poet, writer and creative practitioner. Her debut poetry collection, Let Me Tell You This (404Ink, 2019), was followed by two verse novels for children, The Stories that Grandma I Forgot (and How I Found Them) and The Hidden Story of Estie Noor (2024), both published by Hachette.

Peter Ratter was born and lives in Shetland. His work has appeared in The Dark Horse and The Scotsman.

Penny Boxall is a poet and children’s writer. She is the author of three poetry collections: Ship of the Line, Who Goes There? (both published by Valley Press in 2018) and In Praise of Hands (a collaboration with woodblock artist Naoko Matsubara, Ashmolean Museum, 2020) – and her pamphlet The Curiosities was published in 2024 by New Walk Editions.

Miriam Nash is a poet, performer and educator. Her debut poetry collection, All the Prayers in the House (Bloodaxe Books, 2017), won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2018. Her second collection The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr, which began as a commission for the podcast series ‘Bedtime Stories for the End of the World’, was published by Hercules Editions in 2020.

Sophie Collins is a poet, editor and translator. Her debut poetry collection, Who is Mary Sue? (Faber, 2018), was a Poetry Book Society Choice and won the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. She lectures in English Literature at the University of Glasgow.

Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, now living in Leith. Her debut poetry collection, Tonguit (Freight Books, 2015), shortlisted for the 2016 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, was followed by The Games (Out-Spoken Press, 2018), shortlisted for the 2018 Saltire Prize for Best Collection. Her verse novel, Deep Wheel Orcadia (Picador, 2021), won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction. Giles’s most recent collection, Them!, was published by Picador in 2024.

Claire Askew is a poet and author, now living in Cumbria. She is the co-editor of Umbrella of Edinburgh: Poetry and Poems Inspired by Scotland’s Capital City (Freight Books, 2016). Her debut collection, This Changes Things (Bloodaxe, 2016), was shortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for First Full Collection 2017, the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award 2016, and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017. Her second collection, How to Burn a Woman (Bloodaxe Books, 2021), was awarded the Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2022.

Stewart Sanderson is a poet from Glasgow, who has published and performed widely in the UK and internationally. He is the author of the pamphlets Fios (2015) and An Offering (2018), as well as the book-length collection The Sleep Road (2021). His most recent collection, Weathershaker, was published by Tapsalteerie in 2025. He is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award as well as Robert Louis Stevenson and Jessie Kesson Fellowships.

Niall Campbell is a poet from South Uist. He has released three book-length collections with Bloodaxe: Moontide (2014), which won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize; Noctuary (2019), shortlisted for the 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection; and The Island in the Sound (2024). In March 2024 he took over as Poetry Editor of Poetry London.

Claire Askew is a poet and author, now living in Cumbria. She is the co-editor of Umbrella of Edinburgh: Poetry and Poems Inspired by Scotland’s Capital City (Freight Books, 2016). Her debut collection, This Changes Things (Bloodaxe, 2016), was shortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for First Full Collection 2017, the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award 2016, and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017. Her second collection, How to Burn a Woman (Bloodaxe Books, 2021), was awarded the Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2022.

Tom Chivers is a writer, publisher and arts producer. He has released two pamphlets of poetry, The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009; shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award) and Flood Drain (Annexe Press, 2012), and two full-length collections, How To Build A City (Salt Publishing, 2009) and Dark Islands (Test Centre, 2015).

Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, now living in Leith. Her debut poetry collection, Tonguit (Freight Books, 2015), shortlisted for the 2016 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, was followed by The Games (Out-Spoken Press, 2018), shortlisted for the 2018 Saltire Prize for Best Collection. Her verse novel, Deep Wheel Orcadia (Picador, 2021), won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction. Giles’s most recent collection, Them!, was published by Picador in 2024.

Stewart Sanderson is a poet from Glasgow, who has published and performed widely in the UK and internationally. He is the author of the pamphlets Fios (2015) and An Offering (2018), as well as the book-length collection The Sleep Road (2021). His most recent collection, Weathershaker, was published by Tapsalteerie in 2025. He is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award as well as Robert Louis Stevenson and Jessie Kesson Fellowships.

Molly Vogel is a Canadian-born poet. She received a New Writers Award for Poetry from the Scottish Book Trust in 2016. A selection of her poems featured in New Poetries VI (Carcanet, 2015) and her first collection, Florilegium, was published in 2020 by Shearsman.