Haia Mohammed is a 22 year old student and poet, and the author of The Age of Olive Trees (Out-Spoken Press, 2025), called “a pamphlet of candid honesty and bravery” by Oluwaseun Olayiwola in The Guardian. Max Porter has called her poetry “the most important work being written in the world today,” while Zeina Hashem Beck writes that her poetry “documents, questions, and resists.” She lives in Gaza.
Ethan Chua is a Chinese-Filipino poet, translator, and community organizer. Their poetry and translations have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and are published or forthcoming in Poetry, AGNI, Poetry Northwest, The Journal, Five Points, Asymptote and The Florida Review. Their chapbook, Sky Ladders, won the 2022 Frost Place chapbook competition. Their graphic novel, Doorkeeper, is available in Philippine bookstores.
Noah is an interdisciplinary poet, performer and critic based in London of mixed Arab heritage. Her writing often explores the boundaries between human and unhuman, interrogating the poetry within biology, automaton, and nature.
She was an editor and co-wrote a column on diaspora poetry for Zindabad Zine, and is an alum of Roundhouse Resident Artists and Barbican Young Poets. She is also an alum of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, Apples and Snakes’s The Writing Room and T.S. Eliot Prize Young Critics. Her work has been featured at Love Supreme, We Out Here, 05: Redacted, Shubbak, Camden Inspire and Bloomsbury Festivals, as well as in Ink, Sweat and Tears, orangepeel, Hecate, and Kalopsia mags.
Abu Leila is a winner of the Bridport Prize, and a winner of the London Writers Awards and a Barbican Young Poet. Their work, preserving family histories of anti-colonial resistance, was shortlisted for the 2024 Wasafiri new writing prize and won the 2024 Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Prize. Their poetry has been published in the Bad Betty Press anthology “Field Notes on Survival”, recreated as a stone carving at the Bloomsbury Festival and performed in Kolkata, India with the Queer Muslim Project. They are currently working on their first novel. Abu Leila hopes to see the fall of imperialism and capitalism in their lifetime.
Bidhya Limbu is a Nepali-Singaporean writer and early-career bereavement care researcher living in London. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Hajar Press, The Quarter(ly), Midway Journal, and elsewhere. She is a Brooklyn Poets fellow and has received support from the Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop. She is a student of grief.
Tayiba Sulaiman is a writer and translator from Manchester. She completed an Emerging Translators Mentorship with the translator Jamie Lee Searle in 2024. Her own writing has appeared in Prospect Magazine, Briefly Write, PEN Transmissions and World of Interiors.