MEET THE ARTISTS

ISSUE 10: QUEER RESISTANCE

Nix is a body-neutral photographer who likes to shoot fellow queer kinky folk in all their glory. The aim of their art is to create a consensual, silly, safe space for models to be their authentic selves. There is so much pressure to present a certain way, especially as non-binary individuals, so Nix likes to capture who they work with in their fullness, no matter the narrative of how the world might see them.
Jesse Hill is a transdisciplinary writer exploring creative catharsis, ecological connection, and queerness. They teach Creative Writing at Edge Hill University whilst working on their posthuman ecofeminist PhD. Their debut short poetry collection is set to be released in 2026 by Broken Sleep Books. Connect with them on Instagram @sabbatverse, for the love of mycelium.
Ale Pedraza Buenahora is a non-binary journalist, self-taught photographer, and multidisciplinary artist interested in redefining standard approaches to visualisation and storytelling with an axis fixed in experiences outside the status quo.
Jackson Banfield is a queer artist, model, singer and dancer. Bold and fierce, they unapologetically create through their queerness to push boundaries and express themselves.
Hazyn Templeton is a Scottish writer, charity shop enthusiast and purveyor of punk. He usually writes in Scots and places emphasis on morality, human connection and complex emotions.
Art is the core reason for Donnie O’Brien’s existence. They have worked in many different mediums over the years, but nothing speaks to them like photography, specifically self-portraiture. Since 2020, Donnie has been recreating Renaissance-style paintings. They aim to bring history to modernity and myth to reality.
Jacob Bush writes within the Nature of our social Belongings. Through mythos, Human Nature, Zen Philosophy, and the Transformational Experience, these Manifesto’s paraphrase the exploration to our original, organic unity that is the Universe in Creation.
Brandon Jerrod is a multidisciplinary artist and Hoodoo-rooted storyteller whose work moves between photography, sound, and ritual to honour spirit. Their practice blends ancestral technology, personal mythmaking, and community care to create spaces of remembrance, pleasure, and power. Brandon makes work that invites people to witness themselves more honestly and be witnessed with love.
Em Inserra is a neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis. Her work is a way of exploring how memory, spirituality, and embodiment shape what it means to be alive. They’re drawn to the invisible threads between our inner worlds and the physical one that we all currently exist in.
Charlotte Walsh is a multi-media artist from North London, using processes such as printmaking, collage and sculpture to create works exploring the themes of being a neurodiverse woman.
Skye Di Maio is a visual artist from Glasgow. Their work mainly focuses on self-love and queer joy. They love to create what lots of us didn’t have growing up.
Qajii is a Georgian visual artist, photographer, and musician whose work explores the emotions we often keep hidden: quiet wishes, subtle fears, and the small contradictions within us.
Leah Byck was born in Manhattan, NY, grew up in Chappaqua, NY, and is currently a PhD Student at UNIBZ in Italy. Through a PhD program in experimental art, Leah will continue to incorporate drag, painting and music studies into their future visual artwork and push the boundaries of what visual art is, as well as what music is and how these mediums all intertwine.
OSH Ponjee is a screenwriter, tailor, carpenter and drag king from the Netherlands, where it lives with its wife, husband and three kids. The translation of the poem was done by its wife, Camilla Maltas.
Trans Masc Bay Area poet and writer with a high desire to share t4t love and sex with the world.
Matihldeuh is a photographer who does everything from concerts and performances to experimental shoots and more. Through her work with colours, Matihldeuh seeks to project you into a dreamlike and colourful world, always through a committed lens, which is an integral part of her work.
Manny Valdez is a Mexican American interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles whose work examines how power and authority shape identity, culture, and desire. Central to his practice is his artist alter ego, Principal Brownman, through whom he constructs fictional scenarios that reveal, invert, and interrogate hierarchies of authority.
Frida Windelhed is a Swedish horror and smut writer, and an advocate for all things kinky, creepy, and queer. Her poetry depicts the dark, obsessive and often bitterly political side of queer lust and love. She is currently working on her third horror novel and performs erotic poetry at queer clubs and sex parties. IG: @fridawritesp_rn
Ari Nahman is an Antizionist Mediterranean Jew who seeks to learn about land-based diaspora, herbalism, magic, and community.
Cam Bordó is a Visual Artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work revolves around ambiguous bodies, the transmasculine experience, unconventional divinity found in everyday queerness, the artist’s role, and interpersonal bonds.
Aleena Sharif was born in Pakistan and went to school at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She graduated with a BFA and a minor in Art History. After graduating, she has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, London, Italy, Pakistan, as well as many virtual galleries. She currently continues her practice between NY and Pakistan, where she holds open studies in the hope of creating a safe space for nude paintings to be shown.
Hannah Wilder’s work examines abjection and intimacy on a personal and sociopolitical scale. Through an exploration of the abstract and grotesque relationships, they distort the binary.
Through his creations, Fabien (Queer extasis) reflects on the representation of male bodies, taking a particular interest in gay iconography. In his work, Fabien combines gay archives, contemporary photos, and soft-porn aesthetics.
Elio Pfeifauf is an Austrian/Italian artist calling Hamburg their new home. Rarely alone, mostly collectively, Elio throws themselves into Performances, Installations, Stage Designs, and many more media to figure out how the world works.
Tosin Jerugba is a Brazil-based Nigerian dyke refugee. She is an artist, writer and zine maker, who has given workshops on bibliodiversity and self-publishing worldwide. Her zines inhale African lived experiences and exhale a love for language, activism, and her exhaustion with the cis-tem.
Bello Nan, an Argentinian-based artist, takes the body as the protagonist of their narratives, exploring through the representation of movements and their materiality the limits between beauty and crudity. They generate sceneries and spaces where intimacy takes priority, through drawings.
Joni Thomas is a poet and photographer living in Richmond, Virginia. Her work has been featured in Transfix magazine and often explores themes of transness, roots, and reclamation. Through both poetry and photography, she seeks to document the intersections of identity, memory, and place.
Jo Birdsell is a queer, nonbinary artist and essayist from the American Midwest. Their work focuses on themes of queer and feminine liberation, life and sobriety in subculture, and rest and recovery in the face of trauma. You can find them online at jobirdsell.com or on Instagram @jo.birdsell.
Artemis Hatfield is a multidisciplinary artist working in the United Kingdom. She has a conceptual practice with a post-medium approach to the way they create their artworks. Hatfield’s work is informed by her experiences as a queer and trans person, and she aims to help inform audiences about various facets of queerness, from the personal to political.
Roxanne Nic Mheanman is a writer based in Newcastle and Liverpool. Their writing explores their personal experiences, often focusing on lesbian love, desire, and relationships, as well as mental illness and how these two topics intersect.
Coco Raven is a Copenhagen-based artist working with photography and graphics surrounding radical self-expression.
Paul Beaudoin is an interdisciplinary artist and writer interested in how queer lives leave traces — sometimes loud, sometimes barely visible. He works with photography, text, and sound to map those in-between places. Born in the US, based in Estonia.
Rebys Hynes is a non-binary autistic writer, curator, and film programmer from Liverpool, living in Glasgow. Their short fiction can be found in Transmuted and Changeling.
Emir Uzun’s practice unfolds in a form that constantly shifts, avoiding permanence. As they exist, Emir spills what’s inside them onto their notebook; words fall short, so they take notes with images and materials that make them feel safer. Like anyone else who exists for the first time, but in this case as a queer migrant, Emir expresses the movements of life in their own way, trying to reach the essence of it.
Grace (Savage Grace) is a multimedia artist with a passion for sacred geometry. @savage_art_by_grace
Hana-Evelyn is a translesbian writer, artist and music producer based in Mumbai, weaving soundscapes and sentences that hum with texture, tension, and tenderness. Her work moves between poetry, prose, and beat. She believes in art as both survival and slow revolution.
Oakie Darling is a non-binary Mixed Media artist from Glasgow, Scotland. With a focus on collage, Oakie translates their lived experience into chaotic yet controlled recycled and recontextualised pieces. Find them at @oakiedarling on Instagram.
Kai Bowman is a queer artist currently based in Manchester, UK. He focuses on exploring his identity as a gay and trans man through mixed media (painting, collage and structure making), ensuring his art is raw and vulnerable.
Sabonis Sanfiel is a visual artist and photographer born in Gran Canaria. Their artistic vision is intimate and introspective, while also being disruptive and critical.
Kassandra Morgan is an author from a small town in Tennessee. She has been writing from a young age and recently picked up a quill once more to chase her dreams. You can find her on social media at TalesbyKassandra.
Elijah Mauthe is an artist and illustrator from Germany, who works with painting, drawing and print. His current focus is on bold linocuts that depict the struggle with gender dysphoria and depression. You can find him and his work under http://www.elijahmauthe.de or on TikTok and BlueSky @elijahmauthe.
Ray Hollington’s work looks into the struggles and euphoria in the transmasculine experience. It aims to educate others and inspire trans people. They create work for those who struggle to see themselves represented.
Beaux Young is a collage artist and zine maker, primarily using ‘found poetry’ and collage techniques as a tool for non-binary and neurodivergent self-expression, to reassemble their felt experiences of religious trauma, and relay queer joy. Follow along: IG: @zinesbybeaux Substack: @beauxosy.
Emre Varışlı lives in Istanbul, where he performs poetry readings and works as a photographer.
Ella Chase is an amateur writer using creative non-fiction as an avenue for discussing the nonsensical world we have found ourselves in. As a queer person of colour, writing personal pieces rooted in lived experiences is a crucial way to understand the cracks in our society and communicate alternative possibilities of existence. Instagram: @ellalchase.
Eros Philautia is a comic and print media artist who treats the mediums of their work the same as they would a dissection. They want to peel back and understand as many layers as they can. Eros’ pieces are often rooted in surreal anatomy and personal relationship to the body through a transgender lens, as well as a surreal expression of love for the self and queer intimacy.
Whatsername is a queer and mad poet writing on queer and mad-lib issues, romanticising nature and the city in equal parts, and forever courting the grotesque and the deviant.
Specialising in mixed media and self-portrait-based collages, Elizabeth Corrall weaves worlds and narratives together to tell stories in her own words.
Carissa Villalovos is a 2D artist in the final year of their BFA degree, interested in exploring ideas about sociopolitical issues, the delicate balance of ecosystems, and the use of imagination as political resistance. Their representational work often contains strange and symbolic imagery, while their abstract art focuses on the otherworldly beauty found in Earth’s biodiversity.
Amanda Ryan’s interests lie in the ephemerality of news and information and the emotions it brings. ‘There’s a social amnesia afoot that I’m reacting to in my painting, and it’s acting as a reminder to climatic events that are being easily overlooked and conveniently forgotten.’
John Lewis Rivera Ruiz is a writer based in Puerto Rico. His first poetry book, titled “La Película que nunca vimos” (English translation: The Flick we never saw), was published in 2023 under the risqué Puerto Rican editorial Gnomo. Currently, he resides in the town of San Sebastián with his husband and dog, under a pile of films, books, and vinyl records.
Josephine Whittock is a horror and weird fiction writer based in the West Coast. She writes about queerness, neurodivergence, and the inevitable horror of going about things incorrectly. You can find her work at Arkana, Bodyfluids, HAUNTER Review, and M E N A C E.
Kára currently curates a small artist space and anarchist mailorder called the Temple of Temperance. Among other things, she is a green and queer-feminist anarchist.
Lou Grande is a trans masculine artist of Italian American descent based in Kansas. Since transitioning at 30, Lou has carried a deep commitment to marginalised communities. His art reflects this ethos, drawing on 1970s pop art and New York’s queer art history to explore gender diversity, non-conformity, and resilience, using acrylics and found materials to document and celebrate lives that resist categorisation.
swanson is a painter, clown, and butch, based out of Michigan.
Millie Root is a multimedia artist born and based in Los Angeles. They work primarily in photo and performance, focusing on disability justice, alternative forms of healing, and stories told through the body. They enjoy cuddles with their foster dogs and eating ethically sourced dark chocolate. Follow their journey and arts @millie.r.photography.
‘Yell at fascists – feed the homies – make rad art.’ @samdoart.
Megan Smith is a graphic designer and seasoned multidisciplinary visual artist working mainly in the digital space. She is all about making eye-popping pieces that are rooted in the basics but break the rules whenever possible. Megan is a firm believer that art is for everyone, and as a member of the Talent Public Arts Committee, she uses her passion to advance arts participation and celebration in her community.
j.d. nova is an emerging, self-taught queer writer of short stories, poetry and other word mixings with a seriously sexy, playful, cringey edge. based on the occupied land of Tkaronto. find more weird dream stuff @dreamsickbait.
Lily-Grace Blossom is a queer ceramicist and a mud pie workshop facilitator. Her work explores the earth holistically and sensually, working in collaboration with it to delve into themes beyond the human; disrupting the status quo through abjection and celebrating the body as one with the earth.
Callum Delahunty is an Irish visual artist and painter, who focuses on authentic queer experience, girlhood and sexuality. Inspired by the taboo and the unseen.
Samuel Lowry is a queer trans artist living in the Bible Belt who uses his art in local and online activism. Creating gives them a sense of purpose and an outlet for the stress that comes with the current wave of Anti-LGBT+ legislation. He wishes to connect people and inspire hope with his work.

ISSUE 09

ALANA JOHNSON plays music and writes things. For more information about her work, look at it and then think about it. If you want to get in touch with her, you can find her at the Dirty Bird on Friday nights. Be sure to check out her website http://www.alanaleiajohnson.com.
AGNIJA ANCA is a Latvian-born/Mexico-based multidisciplinary artist passionate about analogue processes (photography, etching, illustration, sound and video art, installation, and performance), and keeping up with her roots through translation and tourist guidance.
BRIANNA WILKINS is an interdisciplinary artist and printmaker. Brianna’s work explores her personal experiences and emotions through natural imagery, drawing on elements such as carnivorous plants, flowers, and landscapes to reflect on family dynamics, trauma, healing, and personal growth.
CAITLIN WALTON struggles with body image and uses painting as a way to combat that. She uses her own body as a reference for all the figures in her work, which helps her see herself in a new light. In these moments, she’s no longer focused on how others perceive her—instead, she’s simply interpreting her own form.
CODY DRACO is a queer poet, settled but never stagnant, in the rural sanctuary of southern Kentucky, United States. His poetry pushes boundaries while distilling meaning from the void of 21st-century existence in an intentional effort to code a new masculinity.
DAN HUSBAND is a published writer and poet from the North East of England. His work is raw, vulnerable, and honest, a contemporary take borne of life in and on the streets of Broken Britain.
drrtgrrl is the experimental solo project of Brooklyn Andromeda von Lyric, a Memphis-born, Seattle-based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores spirituality, trauma, queer identity, and resilience. Merging noise, alt-pop, and raw lyrical introspection, drrtgrrl creates emotionally charged soundscapes that confront both vulnerability and rage with an unapologetic edge.
EILOSYNE’s work revolves around what makes up our world and what is only invisible. She draws her inspiration from our common stories and the terrors we share together. She is primarily a poet but also uses painting, collage, and photography to shape her imagery.
Primarily self-taught, ELI DELBAERE seeks to create socially-engaged art which, like a form of contemporary folklore, is immersed in living culture – in sharp contrast to the separatist, purist concept of ‘fine art’ which exists as a commodity in cordoned-off elitist spaces.
FAIDA ACQUIFERA is an Italian queer artist. Their work explores the transformative power of collective rage and radical tenderness. They hate working, capitalism, and small talk. They love their friends, hardcore music, and mayonnaise.
GARY BUNTING is from Batley, West Yorkshire and is one of the writers at Hello America Stereo Cassette where he regularly contributes recordings for their record label. He’s recently been featured in The Nuthatch, Skullcrushing Hummingbird and ‘Ey Up.
GEORGIA M-L BURKITT is a Stokie image-maker based in Manchester. Their work aims to preserve D.I.Y. art approaches founded amongst Britain’s working class through new digital processes. You can often spot them with their portable scanner, exploring venues, alleyways, and the backs of toilet stall doors in search of graffiti, flyposting, and sticker-bombing to repurpose in their design work.
GWIL JAMES THOMAS is a poet, novelist and inept musician. He lives in his home town of Bristol, England but has also lived in London, Brighton and Spain. His nineteenth chapbook of poetry, ‘Until The Autumnal Sundown’, was published recently by Two Key Customs and his second poetry collection, ‘The P45 Power Ballad’ is available from Yellow King Press.
i.am.ok.at.this (LUCIA CERDA) is an illustrator originally from Argentina. She makes fanzines and illustrations filled with colour but also dark humour and political messages. She studied Graphic Design in Belfast, where she lived for 10 years and is now based in Barcelona with her two cats.
IRINA TALL NOVIKOVA is a graphic artist and illustrator. In her works, she raises themes of ecology and draws on anti-war topics. Her first personal exhibition, “My soul is like a wild hawk” (2002), was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich, Belarus.
J.A.G MABBUTT has been writing poetry since his late teens. In recent years, thanks to publishing (Zimmer Magazine) and performing his works with a jazz band, he has finally found his own voice.
JALEN WILLIAMS is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the concepts of interaction.
JOHN LYMER is a Brighton-based mixed-media artist, working with drawing, photography, found objects, collage, block printing, spray paint, and anything else that feels right in the moment. His process is intuitive and layered—each mark, print, or intervention carries the same weight as the next.
JOLEY WILLIAMS is a Bronx-born, Columbia, S.C. based poet and author of ‘Put the Phone Down, We Have a Job to Do.’ Her work explores memory, survival, identity, and the intersections of urban life with Puerto Rican and Black heritage. Drawing inspiration from city streets, classrooms, kitchens, and quiet moments of reflection, she crafts poems that balance intimacy with universality.
JONI THOMAS is a poet and photographer living in Richmond, Virginia. Her work has been featured in Transfixmagazine and often explores themes of transness, roots, and reclamation. Through both poetry and photography, she seeks to document the intersections of identity, memory, and place.
JOSEPH BLYHTE is a poet from the north of England. He is currently working on a novel about the fallibility of memory. He tweets, Instagrams, and Blueskys @wooperark.
Kára is the curator of a small artist space, the Temple of Temperance. Kara aims to promote an antifascist wakefulness within alternative spiritual circles.
KEIRON HIGGINS is a poet from Halifax, UK. He has previously self-published 4 books and shared the stage with various names in the Punk scene such as Toria Garbutt, Jeffry Lewis, Steve Ignorant, and Brix Smith.
LEO’s diverse and complex practice is centred on installation, which he approaches through a responsiveness to context – environment, history and the time and place in which we find ourselves.
LULU NOWICKI is a surreal figurative artist, working primarily in oil paint on canvas, living out of Boone, NC, and Jacksonville, FL. Her work is a combination of surrealism, expressionism and psychological horror used to depict themes of transformation and intensity of human emotion. She can be contacted via lulunowicki@gmail. com
LUNA PAWLOWSKI is a photographer from Marseille, France. She started working with analog five years ago and hasn’t stopped since. Her work revolves around documenting her life, focusing mainly on showing the reality of the free party scene and other independent movements in France and elsewhere.
MAR5 is a self-published zinester from San Diego, CA who focuses on intersectional feminism and liberation for all through art and good music! You can find her zines at @purestrevolutionzine
M.V.P. is from Bronx, NY. He’s an award-winning self-published author, screenwriter, and poet. He’s also a community organizer with Take Back the Bronx, fighting for community control in the Bronx. His work is known for being politically and socially charged with hard-hitting punchlines.
OK SAUCE is a self-taught graphic designer and digital artist living in the northwest of England. His work consists of digital manipulation and collaging stock photos, as well as data corruption and glitch artistry. His work has been featured at 4 international shows, including Glitch n Games and FUBAR. He is a very socially conscious person who has relations with various socialist and anarchist circles.
OVER EXPLOITED is a Collage artist based in Poland. In his work, he focuses primarily on reinforcing an anti-capitalist, anti-war message. For him, art is a healthy coping mechanism for the current status quo and an important element of the process on the path to sobriety. You can find him on Instagram under @over.exploited.
PAULA QUINTERO is a philosopher, musician, and punk artist from Bogotá, Colombia. Her work aims to expose social injustices and speak out against oppressive political and economic systems. Her work draws inspiration from the most immediate and human reality that surrounds us (and that we often ignore) in order to touch, or at least make uncomfortable, those who read it.
PHILIPPA GREASLEY is an Autistic Speech Therapist and writer from Oxfordshire, with work published (or forthcoming) in Bi Women’s Quarterly, Not Quite Sure, and Dark Poets Club.
PREACHER ALLGOOD took so many wrong turns in life he ended up right where he belongs.
Rebys Hynes is a non-binary autistic writer, curator, and film programmer from Liverpool, living in Glasgow. Their short fiction can be found in Transmuted and Changeling.
Born and raised in the Bay Area, RIDHA MARIAM leans into the power of art and imagination as a means of world-building. Ridha utilizes mixed media, writing, painting, and drawing in their work, specializing in poetry and pencil portrait sketches. They are currently based in New York where they received their masters in art and politics. Ridha hopes to cultivate thought, change, healing, & community through their work.
ROBBIE PEARSON is a queer poet from the UK studying English and creative writing at University. He enjoys writing, playing guitar, and creating art in any way possible.
ROBERT BAKER works predominantly in the medium of Collage and mixed media in both analogue and digital formats. Robert is based in Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter, and has exhibited nationally and locally in solo, group, and open call exhibitions.
Old as the hills and ugly as sin. Photography that roams through brutalist architecture, dystopian landscapes, and urban edgelands.
SOPHIE HERNANDEZ is a multi-faceted, Mexican Indigenous artist who strives to inspire creativity and action within community spaces. She has been doing art all her life, and is now selling prints, stickers, zines, and paintings. She is inspired by fellow artists in her community, as well as by hope for a better future.
TOM PRIESTLEY has been writing poetry and fiction since the age of 19, having been inspired by the likes of Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, and John Cooper Clarke. He began performing his poetry at open mic nights around Leeds and, from there, has supported many bands on the Leeds music scene, and self-published nearly 13 collections of poetry.
VALERIE MORAN is an artist and activist channelling voices past and future in a precarious present, currently writing from New Mexico.
VIC JAMILE is a writer, collage artist, and lesbian goth born in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Utilizing horror, fantasy, and nostalgia, Hernández writes/creates art about being a disabled femme-queer under a colonial power. Their work has been published in journals such as Fruitslice (2025), The Caribbean Writer (2025), and Latino Book Review (2025).
LYNDSEY MERCER is a mixed media artist from the UK, living and working in Malaysia. Her work explores nature and social commentary through a feminist lens, using analogue collage, mixed media and experimental photography.

ISSUE 08

ANDREW MEARS is a PhD researcher exploring poetry as climate activism & a musician. He was a founding member of the bands Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies (Youthmovies) & Foals.
NIAMH HANDLEY-VAUGHAN is a poet and writer whose work explores mythology, folklore, nature, and the gothic to navigate relationships, mental health, sexuality, heartbreak, spirituality, grief, rage, love, and the ever-present patriarchy.
ALEYNA BARLI is 23 years old, and based in Istanbul. She works in the fields of graphic design and visual arts. ‘I create digital and analog collages, illustrations, patterns, and paintings. My work is often inspired by the chaos and colors of nature, through which I build imaginary, alternative worlds shaped by intuition and imagination.’
DAMEON PRIESTLY is a Fine Art Contemporary Artist from Belfast. His work focuses on times and events of social and cultural change, often set in a historical context, but with direct relevance to the present. ‘The motivation behind my work is directly related to my childhood growing up in 1970s Belfast. History, culture, politics, and social injustice have interested me since an early age.’
LEONIE ROWLAND is a poet and therapeutic writing practitioner based in Manchester. She is the author of In Bed with Melon Bread (2021) and This Time of Life is Meant for Savages (2023). You can find her on Instagram @leoniearowland.
GUSTARD is a UK-born, Mexico-based collage artist making lo-fi, grain-soaked work full of confused faces, warped layering, and mild visual panic. His pieces usually sit somewhere between a photocopied nightmare and a broken TV signal, pulling from old magazines, bad dreams, and the general weirdness of being alive.
RUBY GORDON is an illustration student who is always experimenting with different materials and ideas. Her work ranges from editorial pieces to zines and social media graphics, all tied together by her love for visual storytelling. Whether it’s animals, portraits, or whatever catches her eye, she’s happiest when her sketchbook looks a bit like a zoo collided with a treasure chest.
SARAH CHRISTIE is a self-taught artist whose work is deeply inspired by the world—its nature, its people, and its intricate complexities. She boldly explores subjects that are often left unspoken, with a particular focus on mental health and feminist issues. Her pieces resonate on multiple levels, sparking conversations and inviting viewers to confront areas of controversy and societal norms.
ÖZGE LENA is an internationally published poet whose work has appeared in The London Magazine, Modron Magazine, The International Times, and in numerous magazines across multiple continents. Özge’s poetry appears in many worldwide anthologies and was showcased at Barnes & Noble for Poetry Month.
J.A.G MABBUTT has been writing poetry since his late teens. In recent years, thanks to publishing (Zimmer Magazine) and performing his works with a jazz band, he has finally found his own voice.
GARY BUNTING is from Batley, West Yorkshire and is one of the writers at Hello America Stereo Cassette where he regularly contributes recordings for their record label. He’s recently been featured in The Nuthatch, Skullcrushing Hummingbird and ‘Ey Up.
IMARNI-BOYER-NUGENT is a Nottingham and North Yorkshire-based interdisciplinary artist, with a practice spanning moving image, performance, print, and painting. Alongside her main practice, she is the founder and editor of Femicide Zine, a submission-based publication, rooted in 90s Riot Grrrl culture, intersectional feminism, and independent art.
KHAOS R. BLAKK is a multidisciplinary neurodivergent creative with a focus in visual arts and fashion styling. Living in London for 10 years, they came from Portugal to live freely as a Queer Alt person. They dream of a society rid of capitalism and patriarchy, and their persona is poured out into their art and craft. IG:art.of.the.miscreants.
AMANDA D’AVINO grew up under the Florida sun but currently resides by the sea on the south coast of England where things feel just gloomy enough. She enjoys poems that sit somewhere between tenderness and discomfort. She loves her dog Sunday, her husband, awkward silences, and the beauty in things that don’t quite fit. Find her on Instagram @fleurals.
TOM PRIESTLEY has been writing poetry and fiction since the age of 19, having been inspired by the likes of Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, and John Cooper Clarke. He began performing his poetry at open mic nights around Leeds and, from there, has supported many bands on the Leeds music scene, and self-published nearly 13 collections of poetry.
STEVE TIMMS is a Manchester-based writer and artist. He makes mixed media collages the old-fashioned way, using scissors, paper, and glue. He is the author of several plays, including American Beer (BBC Radio 4), Temp/Casual (Contact Theatre), and The Distance Between Stars (Studio Salford).
GRACE OATWAY is a Graphic Design and Branding student who plays with all sorts of creative mediums both on a digital and traditional basis. She enjoys to mesh other creative mediums such as music, film or fashion into her work as a way to create meaning and to put symbolism behind “eye candy”. Instagram: @printzandpatchez.
Based near Newcastle upon Tyne, CONRAD MILNE, also known as Dystopian Artist, is a mixed media fine artist whose work blends digital elements with traditional materials, often layering images, text, ephemera, photography, and both manipulated and original pieces to create richly textured compositions.
NOAH DAVID ROBERTS is a non-binary poet based in Philadelphia. They are a 2023 Pushcart nominee & have been nominated for the Elgin Award in Speculative Poetry. Roberts was an editor for Graphic Violence Lit & is the founder of SCRIBES ON SOUTH, a monthly poetry reading.
BEN FRECKELTON is a Cornish writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Their work has been featured in a number of zines and indie publications in print and online, and when not writing, they can be found under the pseudonym ‘Spoons’ onstage and on the radio. They can be contacted at @benjaminfreckelton on Instagram.
URSULA ZIA is a Pakistani-American artist and writer living nomadically. They are inspired by dark ecology, and the imagery of collective dreaming.
EWEN GLASS (he/him) is a screenwriter and poet from Northern Ireland who lives with two dogs, a tortoise and a body of self-doubt; his poetry has appeared in the likes of Okay Donkey, Maudlin House, HAD, Poetry Scotland and One Art. Bluesky/IG: @ewenglass.
DARYA FOROOHAR is a cartoonist interested in exploring themes of identity, sexuality, and resistance to oppression.
ANDREEA OMUCZ is a graphic designer based in Oradea, Romania. She studied Arts for seven years and she likes to combine the traditional with the digital. She explores feminist issues through her art. Her Instagram account is @omuczz.
APRIL STAR DAVIS is a politically engaged mixed media artist using art as protest and witness. Her work confronts systems that marginalize women, LGBTQ+ people, and neurodivergent individuals—blending personal narrative with collective resistance. Her art speaks where systems fail.
FREYA MCDONALD is a UK-based artist motivated by intersectional feminism, exploring the complexities of collective justice and care within the context of activism. Her mediums include text-based works, collage, textiles, and film.
SAM LUFF is an outsider looking inside. ‘Nothing is predetermined’, Sam says. ‘It is connected and entwined through nature, feelings, and emotions.’

ISSUE 07

MOLLY DECEMBER is a mixed-media artist working mainly with photography and photographic manipulation, embroidery, facepaint, pen/ink and words. They draw their inspiration from mythology, nature, underground rave culture, and the beautiful people they know and love who inhabit these spaces, so that they may explore and express their feelings on identity, love, hate and everything else human in-between.
RHEA MELINA is a multi-ethnic poet who lives in Seattle. She has been writing and putting out poetry since the early 2000s. Found Confetti (Carbonation Press) is her first full-length collection of poetry.
IAN DOUGHTY, a former punk bass player who is old enough to remember Thatcher, is a self-employed creative artist. He uses graphics, film, and music to work towards a world within which we can all be whatever we want to be, ‘unfettered.’
KEIRON HIGGINS is a poet from Halifax, UK. He has previously self-published 4 books and shared the stage with various names in the Punk scene such as Toria Garbutt, Jeffry Lewis, Steve Ignorant, and Brix Smith.
JOMY DONEGAN, a Lincolnshire-based artist with a background in history. seeks inspiration from personal reflections of the world, both past and present.
TOM STEVENS is a Gardener and writer based in Bristol, UK, previously published in print by Lumpen, Backlash, and Millenial Pulp. Tom mainly writes poetry about the environment, class, and work, with the occasional environmental & literary nonfiction, and speculative short fiction piece.
Immersed in the socio-political milieu of big city life, where spirituality and identity intersect and clash, WILL ALEGO integrates these diverse influences to develop a nuanced understanding of societal changes/the complexities of human existence.
PREACHER ALLGOOD took so many wrong turns in life he ended up right where he belongs.
IRINA TALL NOVIKOVA is a graphic artist and illustrator. In her works, she raises themes of ecology and draws on anti-war topics. Her first personal exhibition, “My soul is like a wild hawk” (2002), was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich, Belarus.
TOM WILMOTT is a London-based artist who has been making work and exhibiting internationally for over 20 years. Tom defines his practice by two simple principles: That it be as unhindered an avenue of creativity and expression as he is able to make it, and that it provide a material benefit to society equal to that which it does to him.
BLYTHE WHITE is a non-binary poet, playwright, photographer and theatre-maker based in Bristol, UK. They enjoy using their art as a means of exploring our place in the world, both in terms of the roles we’re expected to play in society and in terms of how we interact with nature, with the natural world often providing a refuge and a sanctuary for those most marginalised.

ISSUE 06

JONNY COSMO is a Poet, Writer, and Community Activist based in sunny Preston, Lancashire. His poetry is inspired by the existential weight of it all, society, nature, and devoting emotions into motion through ink and word. As well as writing, Cosmo also works on building his community through culture and cooperatives.
BRUNO is a left-handed experimentalist of collages, photography & doodled patterns. His style is experimental using cutouts from old magazines, books, the internet, and his own photography to build cohesive work which, ‘might not have all the words to explain what he is trying to show, but hopefully with it, you can create an idea for yourself.’
IAN DOUGHTY, a former punk bass player who is old enough to remember Thatcher, is a self-employed creative artist. He uses graphics, film, and music to work towards a world within which we can all be whatever we want to be, ‘unfettered.’
COLIN B OSBORN is a South London-Based poet and musician. His poems address a wide range of topics, from greasy spoon cafes and malfunctioning printers, to the grind of dead-end jobs and abominable politicians. He is currently on a mission to deliver his rhyming rants in any open mics that will have him; an endeavour meeting with moderate success.
JOHN SWEET sends greetings from the rural wastelands of upstate NY. He is a firm believer in writing as catharsis, and in compassionate nihilism. His poetry collections include NO ONE STARVES IN A NATION OF CORPSES (2020 Analog Submission Press) and THERE’S ONLY ONE WAY THIS IS GOING TO END (2023 Cyberwit).
JOSIE MCGINN is a writer from Merseyside whose work focuses on the intersection between class and gender. When she isn’t reading, writing, or thinking about reading and writing, she’s talking about books online.
LEE MARTINEZ SOTO is a queer Mexican poet and translator. Their work centers on the complex tapestry of mental health, generational trauma, and the intrinsic relationship these elements share with our identities—specifically focusing on gender, dysphoria, and the transfronterizo (cross-border) experience.
MARTIN APPLEBY is a punk poet from Hastings, England. He edits Paper and Ink Literary Zine and runs Scumbag Press.
REDEEMING FEATURES writes and performs high-energy punk poetry. He gigs around the UK in the poetry scene and has opened for various punk bands. His first book, “Sniffing Glue and Playing Chicken on the M4” was published in 2024, the profits of which go to the mental health charity, “MIND.”
TOM PRIESTLEY has been writing poetry and fiction since the age of 19, having been inspired by the likes of Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, and John Cooper Clarke. He began performing his poetry at open mic nights around Leeds and, from there, has supported many bands on the Leeds music scene, and self-published 13 collections of poetry.
TOM STEVENS is a Gardener and writer based in Bristol, UK, previously published in print by Lumpen, Backlash, and Millenial Pulp. Tom mainly writes poetry about the environment, class, and work, with the occasional environmental & literary nonfiction, and speculative short fiction piece.

ISSUE 05

RHEA MELINA is a multi-ethnic poet who lives in Seattle. She has been writing and putting out poetry since the early 2000s. Found Confetti (Carbonation Press) is her first full-length collection of poetry.
AQEEL PARVEZ is a widely published poet from Bradford, UK. He runs MALNOURISHED INTELLECT and is half of ‘Poets Talking Bollocks.’ His new collection, Cartoon Suicides, is out now.
DAN HUSBAND is a published writer and poet from the North East of England. His work is raw, vulnerable, and honest, a contemporary take borne of life in and on the streets of Broken Britain.
GEORGE YONEMORI is a 21-year-old Chinese/Egyptian interdisciplinary artist from Scarborough, Ontario. He co-runs the non-profit organization Stay Golden Outreach. Stay Golden hosts free storytelling workshops for teenagers.
TILLY HAWKINS creates posters themed around technology, capitalism, and the impending apocalypse. Her bold, oversaturated images have a uniquely contemporary style with its roots in the early days of the World Wide Web.
JOMY DONEGAN, a Lincolnshire-based artist with a background in history. seeks inspiration from personal reflections of the world, both past and present.

ISSUE 04

CLEA FERNANDES is currently studying research in Bordeaux, France, focusing on ‘Female Youth and Madness’ in contemporary literature (particularly in Emma Cline, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Marguerite Duras’ works). She writes poetry as well as short stories and songs, and enjoys embroidering silly things on fashion trinkets for her tiny brand Lick the Star.
ANTONIO QUAGLIO, also known as RVSH, is an Italian artist who, since childhood, has nurtured his two great passions, politics and art. In 2024, while attending his final year at the Academy of Fine Arts, Antonio finally decided to merge his two passions. This led to the creation of the project ‘GRAN FILIPPO IV,’ aimed at giving a voice to antifascism, which, in today’s world—especially in Italy—is gradually fading away.
AQEEL PARVEZ is a widely published poet from Bradford, UK. He runs MALNOURISHED INTELLECT and is half of ‘Poets Talking Bollocks.’ His new collection, Cartoon Suicides, is out now.
CAMERON UD-DIN is a queer, mixed-race punk patch-maker and poet based in Bristol. They have been performing on the Bristol poetry scene for the last couple of years with notable set list slots at queer-run events. They write poetry about feelings and identity, and the occasional fantasy/sci-fi short story.
DAN HUSBAND is a published writer and poet from the North East of England. His work is raw, vulnerable, and honest, a contemporary take borne of life in and on the streets of Broken Britain.
ELLA JAMES is a punk art-inspired illustrator from the South West. ‘I’ve always wanted to be an artist in some way since I was little. I just want to get a message out there.’
CHRIS HASTE started writing poetry during lockdown after discovering poets such as Toria Garbutt and Luke Wright. His contribution to ANARKISS is Chris’ first published poem.
HARRY WARD is a poet, lyricist, and spoken word artist from the UK. He can be found sharing various works on Instagram and YouTube under the handle @hobthepoet.
JACK BOYLES is a working-class genre writer from the East Midlands, UK. His upbringing, and subsequent dealings with situational poverty inspires him to write about politics. In doing this, he hopes to reignite the working-class voice in popular media and put an end to cultural austerity.
KEIRON HIGGINS is a poet from Halifax, UK. Previously a DJ playing in a Leeds-based reggae/soul collective, the self-proclaimed “Suedehead bard of Halifax” has been writing since 2012. He has previously self-published 4 books and shared the stage with various names in the Punk scene such as Toria Garbutt, Jeffry Lewis, Steve Ignorant, and Brix Smith. When not writing poetry, Keiron can be found lurking around various dens of iniquity drinking stout and looking for records to add to his ever-expanding eclectic music collection.
A 21 year old American student studying creative writing in York, OLLIE GROOVER is a trans writer and illustrator with a passion for poetry and 2-D digital illustration. They use these mediums to advocate for social justice issues, namely surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and gender equality, as well as mental health awareness and accessibility.
TINAMARIE COX lives in Arizona, USA. Her written and visual work has appeared in numerous publications. She is also the author of a poetry chapbook, Self-Destruction in Small Doses (Bottlecap Press, 2023), and a forthcoming collection, Through A Sea Laced With Midnight Hues (Nymeria Publishing, 2024).
TOM PRIESTLEY has been writing poetry and fiction since the age of 19, having been inspired by the likes of Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, and John Cooper Clarke. He began performing his poetry at open mic nights around Leeds and, from there, has supported many bands on the Leeds music scene, self-published nearly 13 collections of poetry, organised events around Yorkshire, and hosted his own poetry hour with an online radio podcast through South Leeds Radio.
REBYS HYNES (they/them) is a non-binary autistic writer, curator, and film programmer from Liverpool, living in Glasgow. Their short fiction can be found in Transmuted and Changeling.

ISSUE 03

KEIRON HIGGINS is a poet from Halifax, UK. Previously a DJ playing in a Leeds-based reggae/soul collective, the self-proclaimed “Suedehead bard of Halifax” has been writing since 2012. He has previously self-published 4 books and shared the stage with various names in the Punk scene such as Toria Garbutt, Jeffry Lewis, Steve Ignorant, and Brix Smith. When not writing poetry, Keiron can be found lurking around various dens of iniquity drinking stout and looking for records to add to his ever-expanding eclectic music collection.
JESSE HILL is a transdisciplinary ecopoet exploring creative catharsis and environmental connection. They are creating a film-poem and essay series representing the ancient Wheel of the Year, researching how we can utilise creative expression in order to attune to the natural cycles and rhythms of our interdependent ecology.
IAN DOUGHTY, a former punk bass player who is old enough to remember Thatcher, is a self-employed creative artist. He uses graphics, film, and music to work towards a world within which we can all be whatever we want to be, ‘unfettered.’
SAHARA DEVILLE is an emerging multi-genre writer based in Manchester. She is preoccupied with expression, inspiration, and empowerment, and passionate about social justice illuminating the darker corners of society. With a background in advocacy for DV, rape & sexual assualt, she is an avid supporter of survivors and protecting children. Sahara is currently working on a collection of dark short stories and poetry, and she also has several novellas in progress.
LEE MARTINEZ SOTO is a queer Mexican poet and translator. Their work centers on the complex tapestry of mental health, generational trauma, and the intrinsic relationship these elements share with our identities—specifically focusing on gender, dysphoria, and the transfronterizo (cross-border) experience.
LATERAL G is a no-fixed-a-boat nomadic poet, currently wandering the wilds of West Yorkshire. ‘I’ve been living on the road for many years, and being criminalised hasn’t stopped me yet!’
PHOEBE THOMAS is a queer, neurodivergent, mixed race, working-class creative, surviving (just about) in the North West. After a terribly elitist and classist education in history of art, Phoebe has redirected her anger into community arts projects over the last two years. They put on poetry events, install exhibitions, and have been collaborating with other creatives who are also ‘fed up with our current system and the lack of opportunities for artists in the UK (particularly the North).’
AQEEL PARVEZ is a widely published poet from Bradford, UK. He runs MALNOURISHED INTELLECT and is half of ‘Poets Talking Bollocks.’ His new collection, Cartoon Suicides, is out now.
DAN HUSBAND is a published writer and poet from the North East of England. His work is raw, vulnerable, and honest, a contemporary take borne of life in and on the streets of Broken Britain.
ELLA JAMES is a punk art-inspired illustrator from the South West. ‘I’ve always wanted to be an artist in some way since I was little. I just want to get a message out there.’
KITTY AURORA (they/them) is a queer, anarchist, mixed media artist, project manager, community organiser, and neurodivergent consultant based in Manchester. Their art focuses on mental health and music with the goal of creating a music and art revolution that will give an amplifier to typically overlooked talent.
A 21 year old American student studying creative writing in York, OLLIE GROOVER is a trans writer and illustrator with a passion for poetry and 2-D digital illustration. They use these mediums to advocate for social justice issues, namely surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and gender equality, as well as mental health awareness and accessibility.
CARLOS MATHIAS is a 25-year-old graphic designer born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

ISSUE 02

MWELWA CHILEKWA is a Zambian British poet and spoken word artist who is not afraid to speak (and write) her truth. Balancing heavy topics with a sprinkle of levity, she is passionate about using her voice to raise awareness of important issues.
CLARA ADA MANTEGAZZA is a London-based Italian poet, playwright, curator, host, and producer of poetry nights and workshops. She writes poems centred around intimacy, the female experience, alienation, and liberation.
CLOUD SINCLAIR (they/she) is a 23-year-old London-based poet and ‘lover of the queer form and what comes with being human.’ Published in ‘pastelserenityzine’ and soon to be featured in ‘honeyfairymag’, as a poet they write about what lies at the depths of our perception.
DORIAN ROSE is an artist, writer, proofreader, editor, trans theorist, and graphic designer. They are the founder of Transmuted.
JODIE UNDERWOOD is a British artist who explores the intersection of eroticism, gender, and queerness via digital illustration and oil painting. Through historical imagery intertwined with queer bodies, Jodie prompts viewers to scrutinise their internal biases.
KITTY AURORA is a queer mixed media artist based in Manchester.
NICOLA DE VERA (she/her) is a queer Filipino writer based in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in New World Writing, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Exist Otherwise, Corporeal, Writers Resist, and elsewhere.
DAN HUSBAND is a published writer and poet from the North East of England. His work is raw, vulnerable, and honest, a contemporary take borne of life in and on the streets of Broken Britain.
OLLIE GROOVER is a trans writer and illustrator with a passion for poetry and 2-D digital illustration. They use these mediums to advocate for social justice issues, namely surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and gender equality.
TINAMARIE COX lives in Arizona, USA. Her written and visual work has appeared in numerous publications.
Immersed in the socio-political milieu of big city life, where spirituality and identity intersect and clash, WILL ALEGO integrates these diverse influences to develop a nuanced understanding of societal changes/the complexities of human existence.
JOMY DONEGAN, a Lincolnshire-based artist with a background in history. seeks inspiration from personal reflections of the world, both past and present.
MWELWA CHILEKWA is a Zambian British poet and spoken word artist who is not afraid to speak (and write) her truth. She is passionate about using her voice to raise awareness of important issues.

ISSUE 01

GEORGIA MC LAUGHLIN uses art to explore her sexuality, challenging the rhetoric around how gay women should look/think/act.
AQEEL PARVEZ is a widely published poet from Bradford, UK. He runs MALNOURISHED INTELLECT and is half of ‘Poets Talking Bollocks.’ His new collection, Cartoon Suicides, is out now.
AUDREY T. CARROLL is the author of What Blooms in the Dark (ELJ Editions, 2024), Parts of Speech: A Disabled Dictionary (Alien Buddha Press, 2023), and In My Next Queer Life, I Want to Be (Kith books, 2023).
BIZ has been writing poetry since they were a kid to make sense of the world around them. More and more they’re using poetry to break down (and mildly mock) the status quo and where they might fit within it. Over the past six months, they’ve started to perform their work more regularly, and have recently won the Manchester Heat of the Mind Over Matter Slammer.
CAELAN JOHN JAMES (he/they) is a Welsh, Edinburgh-based writer and visual artist. He graduated from Edinburgh college of art in 2023 and is part of the queer as muck artist’s collective that explores work surrounding queer ecology. Caelan writes through a neurodivergent, queer lens with an emphasis on the interlaced nature of the self with the environment.
CARLOS MATHIAS is a 25-year-old graphic designer born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
CARYS MALONEY is a London-based indie poet, currently studying art history at The Courtauld and performing her work at events across London. She has published three collections of poetry and art, and presently acts as Literary Editor for The Courtauldian. Maloney’s poetry has been published in Acumen and The Courtauldian, and she has been interviewed by Disgraceful Magazine and Uptime regarding her practice.
COLIN B OSBORN is a South London-Based poet and musician. His poems address a wide range of topics, from greasy spoon cafes and malfunctioning printers, to the grind of dead-end jobs and abominable politicians. He is currently on a mission to deliver his rhyming rants in any open mics that will have him; an endeavour meeting with moderate success.
ELLA JAMES is a punk art-inspired illustrator from the South West. ‘I’ve always wanted to be an artist in some way since I was little. I just want to get a message out there.’
HARRY WHEELER, a fashion intern at Paul Smith Japan, draws inspiration for his craft from social movements, art, and history.
JULIA WERNIK is a Polish illustrator currently residing in Brighton. Growing up as a first generation immigrant with no ability to speak English, she used drawing as a way to communicate from the age of 5. Julia draws on her experiences with the struggle of womanhood in her illustrations through metaphors, symbolism, and sharing stories through her art.
DAN HUSBAND is a published writer and poet from the North East of England. His work is raw, vulnerable, and honest, a contemporary take borne of life in and on the streets of Broken Britain.
KARINA SPENCER is a Manchester-based artist creating work that delves deep into the realms of mortality, sexuality, and religious symbolism.
KAYLEY ROSE DOHERTY is a 21 year old Northern Irish fashion student from Belfast. Taking influence from the Punk feminist movement, Riot Grrrl, and iconic designers such as Westwood, Kaylee’s work explores subcultural style as she adopts a different, more political approach to fashion design.
LEWIS WYN DAVIES is a writer from Shropshire. He has a deep-rooted passion for highlighting stories of inequality.
LUCA JORDAN is a queer performance poet, crafty creative, and all-round adventurer from sunny Leicester in the U.K. She has spent the best part of the last 15 years travelling the world/living abroad and is most happy whilst immersing herself in new cultures. For now, after many years away she is most inspired experiencing and collaborating with culture closer to home!
LUCI DRUIDICA, a South London-born writer, imagines a reality where tech and nature combine to create harmonies and hell. Falling into the genres of Techno Pagan, Solar Punk, and Queering Ecology, her writing takes aim at censored and controlled social networks, showing up with queerness, anti-establishment, and anti-capitalism values.
LUCY THILL is a young writer living in the Adirondack Mountains. Her work has previously been published in Wild Words Anthology and LocalADK Magazine.
MARIE MARSHALL finds the words for human experiences as she dwells in the difficulties and triumphs of what it means to be alive. Normal or abnormal, she attempts to bring these ideas into focus and into thought. She has been writing since the age of 17, and has been exploring the poetry scene for many years.
MINERVA CAMPBELL is an illustration artist who uses a selection of odd and uncanny characters to narrate a world that is a warped reflection of the society we live in. These characters exist in a twisted reality, and play with the idea of remaining vulnerable and authentic in a society that is so greedy and demanding of us.
NICK TRAGG is an illustrator, animator, writer and musician from Athens, Greece. Having been involved in political activism for most of his life, Nick finds that art is one of the best ways to express himself, whether that be via the production of short films, music videos, comic books, or illustrations.
OLLIE GROOVER is a trans writer and illustrator with a passion for poetry and 2-D digital illustration. They use these mediums to advocate for social justice issues, namely surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and gender equality.
OWEN BURTON, a self-described ‘old soul’, creates psychedelic-esque artwork. ‘I’m just trying to understand this realm and what we are truly here for.’
SONNY WALKER is a twenty-four-year-old poet and novelist from Cornwall. Their work draws inspiration from personal experiences with queerness, sexuality, and the body.
SAM B KENNEDY is an emerging Fine Artist from Surrey. With a passion for vibrant colours and bold brushstrokes, she creates fresh and colourful works by layering a diverse range of mixed media.
TINAMARIE COX lives in Arizona, USA. Her written and visual work has appeared in numerous publications.
TOBI ANDERSEN is a transgender political poet from Denmark.
Immersed in the socio-political milieu of big city life, where spirituality and identity intersect and clash, WILL ALEGO integrates these diverse influences to develop a nuanced understanding of societal changes/the complexities of human existence.
WILL WHITE is a 19-year-old trans man from Northamptonshire. He has always been fascinated by art, writing, music, and anything creative.
JOMY DONEGAN, a Lincolnshire-based artist with a background in history. seeks inspiration from personal reflections of the world, both past and present.