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ASHLEY DUNN:

Ashley Dunn is a writer, artist and performer based in Bristol. He is the creator of Infringed Poetry and Just Cos! Poetry, two popular poetry nights in Bristol, and currently manages and hosts the latter. He has been published in A New Ulster and various publications online. He has navigated himself and the world primarily through writing and is constantly trying to capture, explain, and change his experience through artistic means.

MAUNAGH KELLY:

Maunagh Kelly left school at 16 but later studied the oboe at The Royal Northern in Manchester, where she went on to work in orchestras and also became part of the 80s Hacienda music scene.
She started writing poetry while in Manchester and has been widely published in various magazines and placed in the top three in many competitions, including winning the Canterbury Poetry Prize. She moved to Bristol in the early 2,000s. She had a fallow period, poetry-wise, during which time she worked as a portrait artist and wrote three novels but in recent years she has been drawn back to poetry. Maunagh’s new pamphlet is published by Red Guitar press – it’s called Picking Up Light and was launched in March of this year.

ISABEL WHITE:

Founder of poetry collective Alarms & Excursions (www.alarmsandexcursions.com), over 20 years, Isabel has performed her work across the UK, at Shakespeare & Co in Paris; in Rotterdam, at Brighton Fringe, Guernsey, Keats, Lyra, Ledbury, Primadonna and London Jazz Festivals. She has worked with Patience Agbabi, Jo Bell, Liz Berry, Pete Brown, Dead Rat Orchestra, Bernadine Evaristo, Kate Fox, John Hegley, Matt Harvey, Michael Horowitz, Fran Landesman, Elvis McGonagall, Daljit Nagra, Jacqui Saphra, Jo Shapcott, Dudley Sutton and Kae Tempest. Isabel was a finalist in the BBC Proms (twice), Guernsey International, Bridport and a dozen other competitions. She served six years on the board of the Poetry Society and is currently a director of Modern Poetry in Translation. Her work has appeared in over 40 magazines and anthologies on three continents, and she has three full collections and two pamphlets published to date. Her next collection is due next year.

ARIADNA ORTIZ NAYA:

I'm Ari, a Venezuelan poet and blogger based in Bristol, UK. On my blog, thisisnota.business.blog, I write about my experience as an immigrant and as a person who is figuring everything out as they go. I've self-published and recorded poetry tracks that can be found on: I'm Ari, a Venezuelan poet and blogger based in Bristol, UK. On my blog, thisisnota.business.blog, I write about my experience as an immigrant and as a person who is figuring everything out as they go. I've self-published and recorded poetry tracks that can be found on www.digitalpoetryshop.co.uk
My passion is to write poems that reflect strange life circumstances that are most probably common in occurrence but nevertheless odd. I also like to reflect on my situation as a forced migrant and the healing journey that comes with it.

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