Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot award-winning poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. He has published nine volumes of poetry, a spoken-word EP and a collection of short stories.

His poetry and fiction have appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts as well as being published in The Feminist Review, Amnesty International’s Words That Burn and John Berger’s anthology The Long White Thread of Words. 

In 2012 he founded Out-Spoken, London’s premier poetry and live music night, and Out-Spoken Press, an independent publisher of poetry and critical writing that aims to challenge the lack of diversity in British publishing. He has toured extensively both Europe and Australia. 

Nyanda has always been fascinated by words, she uses them to explore the world around her through poetry. Nyanda became Birmingham's Young Poet Laureate in October 2016, and is inspired by the impact that words can have to create, unite, explain and enjoy.  She strives to connect with others where she can by sharing and listening to others’ work. She has performed across the region including Holocaust Memorial Day.

Raymond Antrobus is a British Jamaican poet, performer, editor and poetry educator born and bred in East London, Hackney. He is one of the world’s first recipients of an MA in Spoken Word Education from Goldsmiths University. In 2017 he became one of the first recipients of the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. 

He is also a Complete Works 3 fellow. His poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine (US) among others. His latest publication is To Sweeten Bitter (Out-Spoken Press, 2017)

“His monologues are stunning studies of voice and substance, and his lyric poems are graceful and finely crafted” - Kwame Dawes