ISSUE 21
BIOS
Billie is from the Wirral, based in Manchester. Their recent work includes: The Walrus Has a Right to Adventure (Liverpool Everyman Theatre, 2025), Peak Stuff (ThickSkin Theatre, UK Tour, 2024), Too Much World at Once (Box of Tricks Theatre, UK Tour, 2023), Saga (BBC Radio 4, 2023) and episodes of Malory Towers series 5 and 6 (King Bert Productions for CBBC.) A dramaturg and facilitator – Billie previously led the Young Writers programme at the Royal Exchange Theatre, and has been a mentor for Arts Emergency, Homotopia and Graeae Theatre. They are published by Nick Hern Books, and represented by Maeve Bolger at The Agency.
Louise Page is a writer and artist who often makes work about their experiences of being disabled, queer and neurodiverse. They are currently working on an Afternoon Drama for Radio 4, and as the creator/writer of a TV show in development with Hat Trick Mercurio. They are a 2024-2025 Associate Artist with Disability Arts Online; and eight of their single edition Artists’ Books have been acquired by the Wellcome Collection on a permanent basis. Their books are represented by Curtis Brown, and their scripts are represented by Berlin Associates.
Johanne lives in Aalborg, Denmark. She has a master’s degree in Comparative Literature from Aarhus University and teaches at the creative writing school Ordkraft Skriveskole. She mostly writes prose and is currently working on her first novel. During the ReWrite-program, she also started experimenting with shorter formats. Key themes are language, asymmetrical relationships and shyness.
Asta Birkler is a Danish writer based in Aarhus, Denmark. She studies Scandinavian Language and Literature, with a side subject in mathematics, at Aarhus University. Asta’s work centres on embodiment and the shifting relationships between characters, with a focus on intimacy and the unspoken. She attended Testrup Højskole’s writing line. Asta is an editor and writer at the student-driven literary review Littuna. In collaboration with Tree From Me, she published the children’s book Noas have.
Elizabeth is a queer, neurodivergent poet, performer, and zine-maker from Wigan, living in Manchester, who has been the recipient of a Northern Writers’ Award and a Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England. Elizabeth has worked with organisations including Manchester Literature Festival, Manchester City of Literature, Manchester Poetry Library, the University of Manchester, The Portico Library, Manchester Pride, Rebecca Swift Foundation and Yorkshire Dance. Their poems have appeared in Atrium, Banshee, Butcher’s Dog, Dust, fourteen poems, Lighthouse, Magma, The North and Under the Radar as well as the LGBTQ+ anthologies Joy//Us from Arachne Press and He, She, They, Us from Pan Macmillan. Elizabeth’s debut collection is A love the weight of an animal (Confingo, 2025). Key themes include moving through the city, nature and animals, body image, language, and community.
Loc-An is an emerging writer born and bred in Aarhus, Denmark to Vietnamese parents. Her work can be found in Feign Literary Magazine, Nowhere Girl Collective and Manila Literary Magazine. She writes prose and hybrid writing, and tends to focus on relationships between people and the (in)significant details that define them.
Tallulah is a poet and multidisciplinary creative based in Leeds, and alum of the MA in Writing Poetry at Newcastle University. Their writing has appeared in English PEN Transmissions, Metachrosis, Something Other, Rust & Moth, and E·ratio. In 2019, she was shortlisted in the top five for the BBC Young Writers’ Award. More recently, they were highly commended in the Hammond House International Literary Prize and placed second in the Red Shed Poetry Competition. Her debut pamphlet, An Alternative Xanadu, is out in April 2026 with Ossa Prints – a formalist sequence based on the square foot measurements of her house. Tallulah is the assistant producer of the Writing on Air Festival at Chapel FM, and Coordinator of the Writing Squad.
Georgia is a script writer and workshop facilitator based in Manchester. Her radio drama Wholesome was commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in August 2024. Previously, Georgia was selected for BBC Drama Room 2021/2022, the Waterloo Road Shadow Scheme with Rope Ladder Fiction and her short radio-play Adulting was commissioned by Radio 3’s The Verb. In 2019, Georgia was part of BBC Writersroom’s Northern Voices cohort. Georgia’s play Runway was toured by her theatre company No Door Theatre in 2018-19 to Oxford Playhouse (BT Studio) as part of Offbeat Festival, Southwark Playhouse and the Martin Harris Centre Manchester. It was longlisted for Theatre503 Playwriting Award and the Alfred Bradley Award. Georgia regularly facilitates workshops for organisations in Manchester including DIY Theatre, The Lowry and Manchester Camerata. Her work is represented by Eva Bell at Sayle Screen.
Birmingham born, Manchester (and sometimes Sheffield) based, Guruleen has worked on a number of projects and residencies with various organisations. Most recently this has included a script in collaboration with composers and virtual reality experts for an immersive tour of the National Trust’s Erddig House. Guruleen has taught workshops to children, teens and young adults for English Heritage. Her practise centres character journeys, with a focus on women. Guruleen is currently working on her novel and on writing and creating a short film with some friends.
Princess, professionally known as P.A.BITEZ is a British Jamaican-born Nigerian poet, spoken-word performer, story-teller, artist. She has been supported by Youth Music and Factory International and MOBO in film-making which combines social activism with surreal Afrofuturistic influences. She’s won numerous awards, including Manchester Young Creative of the Year 2021 (Culture Awards) and a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award 2023. She was a Poets of Colour Incubator poet. BITEZ protests discrimination to highlight the marginalised, alienated and imitated in all her artworks. Her poetry has been commissioned by BBC, Selfridges, Chanel, University of Cambridge and many others.