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Squad Writers at Latitude Festival
This year, two writers from the Squad will be presented by the National Poetry Centre at Latitude Festival, performing on The Bookshop stage on the 25th July.
Charlotte Cropper is an award-winning comedian, poet and writer based in Manchester. Her anecdotal and conversational style, laced with wit and whimsy, makes her a “viscerally relatable” (The Meteor) new voice on the UK scene. She is the creator of Slumber Party, a two-time Chortle award-winning comedy show inspired by 2000s sleepovers (minus the trauma).
Tallulah Howarth is a Leeds-based multidisciplinary creative and the Co-ordinator of the Writing Squad. She was highly commended in the 2024 Hammond House International Literary Prize, and placed second in the 2025 Red Shed Poetry Competition. Her debut pamphlet, An Alternative Xanadu, came out in April with Ossa Prints – in which the square foot measurement of each room in her house dictates the word count for each poem in the sequence.