Niamh Lewis

A Fine Art student currently studying at Liverpool Hope University and originally from Manchester, they work in a range of different mediums but predominantly use latex to create bodily and anatomical sculptures. Since childhood, they have lived with various gastrointestinal-based chronic illnesses and have developed their practice around these conditions as a form of expression and awareness-raising, alongside a strong interest in queer and feminist theory.

lauren louise

lauren louise is a multi-disciplinary artist working with the macabre to explore the mundane. her work varies from her music project to physical art with a focus on the lyric.

Gabriella Winterbottom @bleechbr0wzz @g4br1elllla

Gabby is a 21-year-old neurodivergent creative who has been writing for as long as she can remember. In recent years, writing has become her primary outlet — a personal haven. Her work is inspired by big emotions, lived experiences, and female issues. Through writing, she is able to articulate and better understand herself, and it has allowed her to connect with others in ways she never thought possible.

El Sandbach

El is a poet whose work moves through the abjection embedded in the mundane, tracing how the ordinary can tilt suddenly toward the unsettling. Her writing is stalwartly experimental—pressing past form, texture, and, at times, the edges of coherence to discover new emotional registers. She is currently at work on a new collection exploring the ethics of queer visual narratives as they meet and distort trauma. El believes in making poems that disquiet, distort, and stay.

Em Fay @whatdoesemread

Em holds a Master’s degree in Creative and Critical Writing and has a deep passion for poetry and storytelling. A lover of animals and all things creative, she is currently working on both a poetry collection and her debut novel.

H Salomon (Goldie) @hhastowriteortheydie

They are a queer poet and prose writer currently based in East Anglia, and they care for carnivorous plants.

Sally Porter @salporterliterature @the_new_mersey_poets

Sally has been writing poetry since childhood, and started performing in 2022. Since then, she has performed at Spoken Word events all around the country, and also in Paris and Berlin. She has supported Liverpool band The Shipbuilders and NYC singer songwriter Rachael Sage. Sally is one half of The New Mersey Poets and won Liverpool Fringe Best Poet in 2023 and 2024.

Emily Ravenscroft @em.ravenscroft.art

Emily is a mixed media artist from Warrington and is currently in her final year of studying Fine Art at Liverpool Hope University. Her practice revolves around dismantling social constructs that are considered taboo, shamed, or rarely discussed within society. She has previously explored topics such as mental illness and health, LGBTQ+ issues, insecurities, chronic illnesses, and body image.

At present, her work focuses on individuals’ relationships with their bodies and the ways in which societal expectations have distorted the idea of a “perfect body.” Her practice aims to challenge these perceptions and empower the aspects of ourselves that society labels as imperfect—or that individuals struggle to accept within themselves.

M. Aaron Brady

They usually listen to music while writing poetry or prose, often drawing inspiration from what they see and do. However, there are times when they feel completely clueless and unsure of what to say.

Melissa Grindon @melissa_writes__

Melissa Grindon is an Irish author who writes about heartbreak, identity, and femininity. She recently self published her debut poetry collection, ‘Everything Grows When You Bury It’ which hit #6 on the top 10 Best Selling New Poetry Releases. Melissa has also written a novel, ‘Cabbage Babies’ all about reproductive rights in 1980s Ireland, and is currently querying to publishers.

Heavy Digestations

Heavy Digestations define their multidisciplinary practice as "culino-philisophico-autobiographical," a quote borrowed from The Debt to Pleasure by John Lancaster. Their visual work and words can be candid accounts of their inner worlds, tongue-in-cheek ruminations, or grossly exaggerated as they play with fiction and reality, on and offline. Their work allows for intervention through the use of broken cameras, free software, facilitation, collaboration, ongoing research, and lived experience. Using low-resolution and low-culture mediums and aesthetics, they build speculative post-humanist worlds that act as examinations of food, technology, erotics, and the performance of the self. Finding meaning in the mundanities, they data-mine private and public ritual to determine and define authenticities. Their prognostications speak of redundant flesh in digital landscapes and the liminality of ancient practices.

Cormac Gould @vaguesensations @birdfactuallyaccurate

Wandering slightly, confused mostly, Cormac is a writer and musician from Belfast. He is interested in identity, technology, sound and culture. He is not very good at bios, self promotion or consistency. Despite evidence to the contrary, he enjoyed talking to you. He is often tired, sometimes dancing and always struggling to finish several creative projects.

Charlie Mitchell @bimbo.jpeg

Charlie is an artist who loves drawing clowns and eerie, human-like creatures. An aspiring tattoo artist, they focus on ornamental and sigil-inspired pieces as well as stylised character designs. They take inspiration from anything that resonates — identity, gender, and all things whimsical and weird — and they happily create with any medium they can get their hands on.

Samantha Miles @gothscripts

Samantha is an East Midlands–based playwright, poet, and PhD researcher exploring feminist theory within contemporary gothic writing. Her creative work has been performed across the UK, she is a former winner of the Sunday Times Playwriting Award, and she has previously been shortlisted for Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award.

Michelle C-E Keeley @lotnumber249

Michelle is a writer from Liverpool, UK, who has been preoccupied with the paranormal since she was a little girl. When she isn’t writing, you can find her reading, researching, drawing, or listening to old Vincent Price radio plays on repeat.

Shaiah Keighly @shaiahbutter

A verse-skeptic writer and artist, inspired by memory; the self; vision; and the coast.

Kat Hulmes @kathulmes.art

They are a multimedia artist with a particular focus on sculpture and the relationships between materials in combination with one another. Their work evolves through play and poetry, beginning with naive drawings that develop further once their hands engage with the materials.

They explore themes surrounding creation, the cultivation of life, and the vast ambivalence of the human condition. Motifs such as the cocoon, the womb, and the egg recur throughout their practice, serving as spaces they continually strive to evoke in both subtle and expansive ways.

m.a.i.a @m.a.i.a.tattoo

maia is a printmaker, painter and tattoo artist based in manchester. her work is often whimsical and gothic; taking inspiration from stories, mythology, and the eerie beauty in the mundane. she wonders about our connection to nature, especially in modern urban life.

Julia Staromlynska @juliastarymlyn

Julia is primarily a musician, but the world she creates stretches far beyond sound. Her work builds a visual language that mirrors her music: soft yet raw, nostalgic yet forward-looking. A fairy-grunge aesthetic runs through everything she makes, giving it a delicate, earthy, and slightly haunted quality. Her themes move through nature, femininity, love, and self-discovery.

Her musical alter ego, Cecylia Rose, carries that spirit into a more intimate realm. Cecylia is spelled with a Y because it is not about the I but about the why. She creates music that expresses what she feels, hoping listeners feel it too. The pricks on the flower may hurt, but they remain part of the beauty of the Rose — a duality she carries with her everywhere she goes.

Megs Kathleen

Megs Kathleen is a Liverpool-based poet - carving her works from the subtle ache of a mother wound, working class life, parents in alcoholism, the fatality of mental health, words against the right wing, love, loss, identity and chaos. She is inspired by her late grandfather; a published working class poet, the beatnik generation and her unembellished experiences - whilst walking around in a ridiculous pair of flares. She frequently appears within the Liverpool poetry scene – having started live performances in early 2024 and currently working on her first anthology.

Chloe Panter (CP) @unfilteredpoetry_bycp

Chloe is a self-taught writer and poet who focuses primarily on dark poetry. She writes as a form of expression for the internal struggles she—and many others—face in a world that continues to stigmatise mental illness while simultaneously parading clinical terms as badges of social acceptance, and at times, mockery. Her work centres on the reality and rawness of living with these illnesses, as well as the coping mechanisms people turn to, such as witchcraft, which takes centre stage in the piece featured in this zine.

Violet Owens

Violet is an interdisciplinary fine artist primarily exploring bodily and organic forms, and experimentation in the creative process. "What Is This Becoming..." has been a pivotal piece in their practice: aside from the visual connotations in the painting, metamorphosis extends to the changes in one's artistic direction and style, as well as in spirituality, relationships, purpose and person.

Elinor J Boult @elinor.j.boult.

Elinor is a queer poet, playwright, and dramaturge whose work focuses on women, whimsy, and big feelings. She loves telling stories in unexpected ways. She is currently working on a new draft of her play The Days Between Spring and Summer after being fortunate enough to win this year’s Homotopia Writers Award.

Ella Holmes

Ella is a master’s student and freelance writer, and it was only this year that she sank her teeth into creative writing after being inspired by poets in zines such as Flesh and Parchment and other indie Liverpool mags.

Amber Masters @ambers_art_stuff

Amber is a surrealist sculptor who works with found or donated objects to create artwork exploring themes of sentimentality, attachment, and consumption. Drawn to the idea of the “lives” these objects have lived before ending up in charity shops, they incorporate them into human forms, giving each object its own identity rather than allowing it to remain defined by its previous owners. By choosing familiar, everyday items that most people have interacted with, they invite viewers into a sense of recognition and encourage them to interpret the sculptures’ body language and interactions to form their own narratives.