Hetty Cliss is a poet and spoken word artist from the Fens in East Anglia and a graduate of UEA’s Creative Writing MA. Her poems can be found in fourteen poems, Propel Magazine, Bi+ Lines, on NewWriting.Net and elsewhere. She won the Ware Poets Sonnet Prize in 2024 and her poems ‘Letting Things Lie’ and ‘Best Not to Bring It Up’ were commended in the Ware Poets 2024 main competition.
Damen O’Brien is a multi-award-winning Australian poet. Damen’s prizes include The Moth Poetry Prize, the Magma Judge’s Award, the Cafe Writers Poetry Competition, the Welsh International Poetry Competition, Ware Poets Competition 2024 and many more. His poems can be found in Live Encounters, Dust, Aesthetica Literary Journal and Arc Poetry Magazine. Damen’s latest book of poetry is Walking the Boundary (Pitt Street Poetry, 2024).
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