Hannah Davies​
Hannah Davies is a spoken word performer, writer and theatre-maker. She is the winner of the Great Northern Slam, Bristol Poetry Festival Slam, Axis Slam, a 2016 Anti-Slam finalist, and a Word War Four 2017 finalist. She loves the immediacy of writing and performing poetry and her work embraces the themes of feminism, womanhood and authenticity.
Niall O'Mianain
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Niall O'Mianain is studying Writing, Directing and Performance at the University of York. He's written poetry since the age of 17 and moves between styles. He simply flows wherever his thought and feelings take him.
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Henry Raby
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Henry Raby is a performance poet, theatre-maker and play-wright based in York. He’s toured across the UK, performing from the International Youth Arts Festival to house shows and street corners. Henry is an associate artist of Red Ladder Theatre Company and has written plays for York Theatre Royal, Hull Truck and Harrogate Theatre.
Gaia Blandina
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Gaia Blandina is a cellist and sound artist. She is currently doing an MA in Contemporary Music Studies at the University of York. Her practice is concerned with translating patterns into different systems, often combining various sources; from words and poetry, to codes and sounds. As a cellist, she performs with a variety of ensembles which focuses on contemporary practice, devising music collaboratively and through improvisation. She is also the founder and curator of an annual artist residency which takes place in Sicily, part of a bigger project called InCanObert.
Shringi Kumari
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A drifter, Shringi likes to think, feel, express and ask.
She uses madhubani paintings, games, writing and dance as a medium to bare layered nuances.
Her poetry roots from thoughts held in thin air, observations made in private and the endless pursuit of self. She and her art are rather abstract and invite interpretation.
Shringi has been working in the games industry for the past 10 years and has recently started a PhD in the same field.
Eamon Ronan
Originally from the US, Eamon Ronan lives in York. He calls himself a writer but spends most of his time reading novels.
His favourite authors are Toni
Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jennifer Egan.
Bernadette O'Horo
A lover of words with a huge interest in linguistic anthropology. Born in Yorkshire, she writes because writing to her, is freedom.
Her poetry explores in-depth moments with creative language, written with honesty and insight relating to worldly issues. Bernadette spends her days studying and enjoys long walks in the countryside, 80's music and photography.