Inge Blackman is a writer, director, producer, and cameraperson. She has recently completed Legacy for the Arnolfini in Bristol, exploring the lasting impact of slavery on Black families. She is currently in post-production with Fem, an experimental short on queer femininity. Other credits include BD Women, Viva Tabatha, and Paradise Lost, an autobiographical journey to Trinidad.
Diana Cockrill was born in Cambridge more years ago than she cares to think about. She is a divorced bisexual pensioner, out to her friends for the last six years, and currently occupying herself by reading for an honours degree in English and French at the University of Northampton.
Nir Cohen was born in Tel Aviv and lives in London. He is completing his PhD thesis on gay narratives in contemporary Israeli Cinema at University College London.
John Dixon has won a short story prize (Bridport) and has had several poems published. He has completed two novels and is working on a third.
Gaz studied at Harrow's Art College, and at 19 learnt his trade sisting on shoots for Guinness. Now known for his male portraiture and gay magazine covers, his work has been published worldwide. Last year he was very proud to shoot campaigns for the Terrence Higgins Trust.
Radcliff Gregory is a Leicester-based writer who has written three volumes of poetry and been widely anthologised elsewhere. He also writes non-fiction articles and essays on LGBT, gender, identity and disability issues, in addition to arts biography and literary criticism. Radcliff gives regular poetry readings and public lectures.
Paul Hartnett has spent almost 30 years documenting midnight's children and their club culture. His photography has been published internationally and exhibited in London, New York and Tokyo. Under the name of P-P Hartnett, he’s had four novels, a book of short stories and - as editor - three anthologies published. He lives alone in a terraced house on a hill in Colne, East Lancashire. See more at www.paulhartnett.com.
Marc Holland was born in Ipswich in 1970 and now lives in the Midlands. He started writing in 2003 and has had some short stories published in America. His first novel, Mark Stone: Secret Agent, will be published by Starbooks Press in the USA in September 2006.
Michael Hyde lives in London.
VG Lee has published three novels: The Comedienne, The Woman in Beige, and the forthcoming Diary of a Provincial Lesbian. She also writes short stories, and most recently an essay for the Stonewall anthology, The Way We Are Now.
John McCullough’s poetry has appeared in The Rialto, The Guardian, Smiths Knoll, Reactions and was the subject of a Showcase feature in Magma. He is the author of Unplugged at Café Atlantic (Waterloo, 2004) and Cloudfish, due out from Pighog Press in May 2006. He lives in Brighton.
Aoife Mannix is an Irish writer based in London. Her first poetry collection, The Elephant in the Corner, was published by Tall Lighthouse in 2005 (tall-lighthouse.co.uk). Her work has been published in various magazines – Kin, In Our Own Words, and 100 Poets Against the War, amongst others – as well as on www.spoiledink.com/aoifemannix.
Char March is an award-winning poet and playwright. Her credits include three collections of poetry, six BBC Radio 4 plays and seven stage plays. Her poetry and short fiction have been published widely in literary magazines and anthologies. Char is just finishing her first novel, set in Berlin and Leeds. She grew up in Central Scotland and now divides her time between the Highlands and Yorkshire.
Jay Merill is published in recent and forthcoming issues of Stand, The London Magazine, Tears in the Fence, Staple (Alt Gen), Myslexia, Cadenza, DreamCatcher, Texts' Bones, NightTrain (USA), Prophecy (USA), etc. She had a dramatic monologue performed at the Lost Theatre One Act Festival in Fulham, and is currently working on a novel.
Maria Mojo is a queer femme who performs as Dyke Marilyn. She has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy & Applied Psychology. She is currently preparing for an MA in Gender Studies at UCL to further explore her A-grade thesis on identity, myth & psychoanalysis. She is fighting her addiction to Butches, and can also be found at www.dykemarilyn.com.
Sharon Morris studied fine art at the Slade School, where she currently teaches. She has exhibited photography, film, and video installations. Her academic publications include an essay on Claude Cahun in The Bisexual Imaginary (Cassell, 1997). False Spring, her first poetry collection, will be published by Enitharmon in 2007.
Uriel Orlow is a Swiss artist and writer based in London. He uses video, sound, photography, billboard-posters, text and drawing in his work. Central to the form and content of much of his work is the archive and the artist as archivist and mediator. He has exhibited in international solo and group exhibitions and his films have been screened at film festivals. A monograph on his body of work, Deposits, will be published by Greenbox in 2006. More info at www.urielorlow.net.
Drew Payne lives and works in London. His work has been published in the anthologies Don’t Judge This Book By It’s Cover, Telling Tales, and Courage To Love. He has been published in ScotsGay, Nursing Standard, Velvet Mafia and Whotopia, and is a regular contributors to FS Magazine, a London Men’s Health magazine.
Sarah Pucill completed her MA at the Slade in 1990. Her 16mm films have won awards at key international festivals. Her work has also been screened at the ICA, Tate, Barbican, and the Serpentine Galleries. Her photographs have been collected by Charles Saatchi and were recently included in IRIS’s Masquerade: Women’s Contemporary Portrait Photography book and exhibition at Photofusion Gallery. She is making a 45-minute 16mm film with her mother.
Tim Robertson lives in central London with his partner, Neil, and works as a consultant in children’s services and the arts. He is a trustee of Create Arts (www.createarts.org.uk) and on the editorial team of Magma poetry magazine (www.magmapoetry.com). He studies film music as a hobby.
David Rothwell has a reputation for being a master fantasy image manipulator and a flawless portrait photographer. His talents have been called upon to transform, redress, mutate or glorify the human form. His work ranges from magazine covers and software packaging to private portraits, from artistic statements to science fiction masterpieces. See more at www.davidrothwell.com
Sarah Salway’s latest book, Messages (Bluechrome), is a collaboration with the poet, Lynne Rees, and consists of 300 pieces of 300 words. Her novel, Something Beginning With, is published by Bloomsbury. See more at www.sarahsalway.com
Robert Seatter published his debut collection, Travelling to the Fish Orchards (Seren) in 2002, following inclusion in Anvil New Poets 3 (2000). A new collection, On the Beach with Chet Baker (also Seren) follows at the end of 2006. He has won the National Poetry Competition, London Poetry, Forward Poetry Prize, Tabla, and Housman Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in varied publications and magazines, as well as on TV and radio.
Sina Shamsavari is a graphic artist whose work explores the boundaries between fantasy and reality. Sina burst onto the underground queer punk scene at the age of 16 with the queer comix-zines Concerned Muthers and BoyCrazyBoy. Contact him at [email protected] or through his website: www.boycrazyboy.com
Suraya Sidhu Singh is a New Zealander living in London. She was the winner of the 2004 BBC Radio 3 summer writing competition and has appeared in journals in the UK (Naked Punch), Sweden (Serum, Fabrik) and New Zealand (JAAM, Takehe). She likes vegetarian sushi and sleeping on trains.
Mima Simic is a Croatian writer. She will write for food.
Andra Simons was born and raised in Bermuda. He is an actor, director, and writer now living in London. He has published and performed his poetry in Bermuda, the Caribbean, Canada, and the UK. He is a recipient of both the Bermuda Gold Award and the Golden Inkwell for his poetry and plays.
Cherry Smyth’s debut poetry collection, When the Lights Go Up, was published by Lagan Press, 2001. A pamphlet, The Future of Something Delicate, was published by Smith/Doorstop in 2005. Her stories have appeared in several anthologies including Scéalta: Short Stories by Irish Women (Telegram, 2006). She lives in London.
Del LaGrace Volcano is gender variant visual artist who has continuously produced and performed queer cultural material, including, but not limited to, texts, photographs, films and videos for the past two decades and who's work has been instrumental in the development of queer theory. Herm's monographs include The Drag King Book (with Judith Halberstam), Sublime Mutations, and Sex Works. Del's next book (with Ulrika Dahl) Femmes of Power: Exploring Queer Femininities will be published by Serpent's Tail in 2007.
Shaun de Waal was literary editor of South Africa’s Mail & Guardian newspaper from 1991 to 2005 and chief film critic since 1998. His fiction appears in journals and anthologies, as well as in book form (These Things Happen, 1996). His graphic novelette, Jackmarks, was published in 1998. A new collection is due out in 2006. He won the Sanlam Award for his fiction and the Thomas Pringle Award (twice) for his criticism.
Robin Whitmore’s drawing practice uses sound and video to illustrate other people’s anecdotes. The images included are from the Galway Film Fleadh last summer when he was artist-in-residence at the Galway Art Centre. He will be designing this year’s Duckie Euro Shame at the Hackney Empire in July.
River Wolton's poems have recently appeared in Mslexia, Lancaster LitFest Anthology and Red Pepper. She teaches creative and reflective writing in schools, sings with the lesbian acapella group Deep C Divas, and performs with the Yorkshire-based Five Women Poets with a Kick.
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