Dean Atta is an award-winning Black British writer from London known for his heartfelt storytelling rooted in his Greek Cypriot and Jamaican heritage. He writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for all ages. For adult readers, his poetry collection, I Am Nobody’s Nigger, was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize, and his memoir, Person Unlimited:…
Sophie is a Bristol-based poet, artist, copywriter and ex-Canoe Coach. Her work has been published in The Rialto, Magma, The Moth, Banshee, Under the Radar, Propel, Neon, Ink Sweat and Tears, The Interpreter’s House, and Anthropocene and has been broadcasted on BBC Radio Bristol. Sophie has been shortlisted twice for the Bridport Prize and has…
Living alone, age 64, on the low income of state benefits and being one of the 110,000 in the North of Ireland living with a rare disease, I now have first-hand experience of being in the typically underrepresented, marginalised community of artists. My life during the war in the North and my career as a…
Since receiving an Eric Gregory award in 1981, Philip Gross has taught creative writing from schools to universities and published 27 collections, for adults and for young people; his latest, The Thirteenth Angel (Bloodaxe, 2022) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. He won the T.S. Eliot in 2009, a Cholmondeley Award in 2017, and thrives on collaboration, e.g. with poet Lesley Saunders on A Part…
Michaela is an author and a poet who writes for all ages but is widely published for children. She comes from a non-literary background and is passionate about encouraging accessibility and enjoyment of poetry. She lives in Edinburgh where she is currently working on her collected poems (to be published by Otter-Barrie Books). She has…
Isabel del Rio is a British/Spanish poet, fiction writer and translator. Born in Madrid, she has lived mostly in London. Her poetry collections include Madrid Madrid Madrid, Dolorem Ipsum, and Cuaderno de notas; her most recent fiction includes Paradise & Hell, A Woman Alone: fragments of a memoir, and La autora del fin del mundo. Within the field of literary translation,…
Amanda Holiday is an artist and poet, founder of Black Sunflowers – a small poetry press focussed on publishing the work of women and black poets. She is also a doctoral student in Poetry Race and Art at the University of Brighton.
Alwyn Marriage is a poet, novelist and Managing Editor at Oversteps Books. She has published ten books, including non-fiction, poetry and a novel; she has recently completed a second novel and is putting together two new poetry collections. She has taken over as Managing Editor of Oversteps Books in 2008 and has since published around 100 poetry collections…
Mathilde joined the SoA in 2022. She transferred from the Membership team to the Advisory team in November 2022 where she will continue her work advising members with publishing issues. Mathilde is joint coordinator of the SoA’s Poetry and Spoken Word Group.
Johanna advises members on contracts and issues. She manages the SoA’s outreach programme as our outreach lead and is a co-host of The SoA Advisory Clinic podcast. Johanna is also the coordinator for the SoA’s Poetry and Spoken Word Group.
