Tutku is a writer and workshop creator of Turkish Cypriot heritage, born, raised and living in Lewisham. Her debut book “All The Women She Knows – Stories Of Growth, Change & Sisterhood” was published in February. Darling Zine called it “the perfect women’s history month read”. She’s an alumna of the Royal Court Writers Programme – her debut play “LAYLA & YOUSSEF”, has been longlisted for the Bruntwood and Paines Plough Women’s Prize.

Her workshops embrace the joy of writing and are designed to help adults playfully and mindfully explore their imaginations in safe settings. She also teaches creative writing at Bell House, Dulwich.

Fathima Zahra is an Indian poet, performer and facilitator based in London.

She is an alum of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, Barbican Young Poets and BBC 1Xtra Words First. Her poems have won the Bridport Prize, Asia House Poetry Slam and Wells Fest Young Poets Prize. She has performed her work at venues across the UK including Hay Festival, Latitude and Last Word festival.

Her debut pamphlet ‘sargam / swargam’ (ignitionpress, 2021) was selected as Poetry Book Society’s pamphlet choice. She completed her MA in Creative Writing and Education at Goldsmiths University of London, with distinction.

Amii is a Lewisham-born multidisciplinary writer who has been working across stage and screen for over a decade. Amii won the Lewisham, Borough of Culture 2022 Your Words Your Lyrics Your Story spoken word competition and was recently published in Middleground Magazine for poets of mixed heritage. They have performed at the Actors’ Church for a celebration of Noël Coward works, the Blue Plaque unveiling of Richard Price and Catford Pride. Amii is a Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab alumni and Film London short film fund recipient. They recently graduated from Goldsmiths with a masters in Script Writing and are currently on the BFI funded Trans+ on Screen script writers’ development lab.

Erica Hesketh is a poet and editor, originally from Japan and Denmark, now based in Forest Hill, south-east London. Widely published in magazines and journals, she placed second in the 2022 Winchester Poetry Prize, and was commended in the 2023 Magma Poetry Competition and the 2023 Stanza Competition. She was longlisted for the 2024 National Poetry Competition. From 2016 to 2024 she was Director of the Poetry Translation Centre. Her debut collection, In the Lily Room, will be published by Nine Arches Press in May 2025.

Aimée Felone is Managing Director of Knights Of, winner of Children’s Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards 2022. She founded and runs the multi award-winning inclusive publisher, and is focused on bringing underrepresented voices to the forefront of commercial children’s publishing. With a team led by women of colour, and an unwavering focus on their intended readership for each book, Knights Of works to engage with gatekeepers across the industry, including booksellers, teachers and librarians, and supports non-traditional community spaces with events, outreach, marketing and partnerships.