Meet the writers

Ava Patel won Prole Magazine’s 2021 pamphlet competition with her debut pamphlet ‘Dusk in Bloom’.  She’s been published in webzines (London Grip; Ink, Sweat and Tears; Atrium; Porridge) and magazines (South Bank Poetry; Orbis; SOUTH; Dream Catcher; New Welsh Reader, The Seventh Quarry, DREICH).

Féilim James is a writer from Dublin, Ireland. He has been funded by the Arts Council of Ireland on three occasions, including for his debut novel, Flower of Ash. Dublin City Arts Office granted him an Arts Bursary in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection, I was a river, lost. He has had three plays and two short films produced, and has appeared in journals such as Acumen, The High Window, The Fiction Pool, and Icarus. His Irish language writing, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge awards. Visit his website here.

Rowan Evans is a poet, composer and sound artist whose debut collection is A Method, A Path (Bloomsbury Poetry, 2023). He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2015 and his chapbook The Last Verses of Beccán (Guillemot Press, 2019) won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry. In 2022 he completed a practice-based PhD in modern poetry and early medieval languages at Royal Holloway University of London.

Boasting the fewest publications and the most seniority, founder Ned Hallett is the ugly business gristle beneath our shining face.

After working over a decade in-house and agency side - with a brief stop at Warwick’s creative writing MA - he saw a human-intelligence-shaped gap in the market.

The result is before your eyes.