Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli is an Italian poet of Chilean origins based in London. He won the Verve Poetry Competition 2025 and the Pat Kavanagh Prize 2025. His work was Highly Commended for the Forward Prize 2025 (best single poem), shortlisted for the Oxford Poetry Prize 2024 and appeared in Propel, Seaford Review, Berlin Lit, Oblique House: Lineage, And Other Poems, and fourteen poems.
Miller Ganovsky is a fiction writer and poet. Some recent work can be read in BRUISER, Notch Magazine, Midcult Magazine, and Soft Union. He was awarded a fellowship from Brooklyn Poets in 2023 after which he was hired on as an intern. He splits his time between New York City and his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is currently working towards completing both a collection of poetry and a collection of short stories.
Miguel Barretto-García (they/them) is a queer Filipino poet and spoken word performer based in St. Louis. Their work has appeared or has been accepted in Wildness, Poetry Northwest, The Iowa Review, The Margins, RHINO Poetry, Rattle, and elsewhere. They have previously performed in the poetry slam and spoken word circuits across Switzerland. They hold a PhD in Neuroeconomics at the University of Zurich and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Neuroscience Department at Washington University in St. Louis.
Andrew F. Giles writes poetry and prose, and has work in many journals and anthologies. His novel Transhumance (Rebel Satori/Queer Space) is out now.
Kris Hicks (he/they) is a Welsh poet, who until recently was living in London. He has just finished a series of sonnets on queer nightclubbing, as part of completing his MA in Creative Writing with the Open University. They can currently be found teaching English in a secondary school in Asturias, Northern Spain (fewer dancefloors, more mountains).
Gunnar Lundberg is a writer and PhD student based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work has previously been published in The Rumpus, Catapult Magazine, From Glasgow to Saturn, Frozen Sea, The Freshwater Review and others. Follow him on socials @gunnarupnorth.
Tom Nutting (he/they) is a poet and editor based in Bristol. His writing explores themes of mental distress, nature and environmental mess, and queerness. He’s been shortlisted for the Starkie and MĀNOA poetry prizes and won the Lisa Thomas poetry prize. His poetry and prose have been featured in Magma, The Stinging Fly, fourteen poems, ORB, The Hopper, and more. He is also an NHS psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He enjoys gardening and foraging.
Adam Spiegelman is a writer based in NY. his work has appeared in AGNI, Swamp Pink, The Indiana Review, Evergreen Review, and others.
Steven Tagle is the recipient of fellowships from the Institute of Current World Affairs, Asian American Writers' Workshop, Lambda Literary, and Fulbright Greece. He served as speechwriter to US Embassy Athens and has been published in The Cortland Review, Salt Hill, Off Assignment, The Common, Bomb, and Nea Estia. Originally from California, he now lives in Zurich, Switzerland. You can find him online at @steventagle / steventagle.com.
Ben Togut is a writer based in New York City. His recent work appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Cortland Review, and elsewhere. When he is not writing, Ben can be found running to catch the subway.