AMY L KING
Amy L. King is a poet and writer living in Manchester. She won the inaugural Derby Poetry Festival prize in 2023 and was longlisted for the Aurora Prize in 2025. Her work can be found in Magma, fourteen Poems, Under the Radar, Dust poetry and DIVA magazine.
Instagram @amylkingpoet
ANDREW McMILLIAN
Andrew McMillan is the author of three previous poetry collections, a novel and the co-editor of the anthology 100 Queer Poems. His work has won the Guardian First Book Award, the only poetry collection to ever do so, as well as a Somerset Maugham Award, an Eric Gregory Award, the Polari Prize and a Northern Writers’ Award, amongst others. He has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, The Forward Prizes and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. He is Professor of Contemporary Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Instagram @andrewpoetry
MARY JEAN CHAN
Mary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche (Faber, 2019), which won the Costa Book Award for Poetry. Bright Fear (Faber, 2023), their second book, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Chan co-edited 100 Queer Poems (Vintage, 2022) with Andrew McMillan and is currently Departmental Lecturer in Poetry on the MSt in Creative Writing at Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College.
Instagram @maryjeanchan
OLIVE FRANKLIN
Olive Franklin's work is published/forthcoming in Poetry, The Poetry Review and Granta. Her debut pamphlet – Dyke Juvenilia – won the Poetry London Pamphlet Prize and will be published in March.
Instagram @usuallyolive
QUEER POETRY COLLECTIVE
An open community of queer poets for queer causes, the Queer Poetry Collective (QPC) exists to elevate new and emerging queer poets, and promote the sustainability of queer literary spaces, presses and causes through fundraisers and events.
The collective was founded by poets Em Taylor and Rich Ware to connect queer voices—emerging, established and unheard—from all corners of the LGBTQ+ community. We are an equal, approachable body that unites people through their appreciation of poetry. The collective is supported by The Poetry Society, Fourteen Poems and The Common Press, alongside many other queer and poetic institutions.
Instagram @queer.poetry.collective