OneTrackMinds

Kate Fox is a Bradford-born stand up poet and broadcaster. She’s a regular contributor to Radio 3’s spoken word cabaret The Verb, has made two comedy series for Radio 4, been Poet in Residence for the Glastonbury Festival and the Great North Run and completed a PhD in stand up comedy. She is the author of Where There’s Muck There’s Bras: True Stories of the North of England’s Women published by Harper North, and her most recent poetry collection The Oscillations from Nine Arches Press. She is on this year’s Forward Prizes judging panel. She is also a neurodivergent advocate whose latest show Bigger on the Inside explores neurodiversity through the lens of Doctor Who.

Nikita Gill is a writer, artist and graphic designer. Author of Your Soul is a River, Wild Embers and Fierce Fairytales. She is a National Poetry Day ambassador and has published multiple anthologies with poetry based on retelling stories from folklore and mythology.

Saeed Khan is Senior Lecturer in Near East & Asian Studies and Global Studies at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. He is also the co-founder of the Institute for Social Policy & Understanding, and a panelist on Turning Point for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Rhik Samadder is an actor, writer and journalist. He has worked for the RSC, HBO, BBC and Channel 4. He created the popular Inspect A Gadget column in the Guardian, and several other long-running columns. He writes features for GQ, the Sunday Times and Observer Magazine and in 2019 released the bestselling memoir I Never Said I Loved You.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese-Australian writer, broadcaster and award-winning social advocate. Abdel-Magied trained as a mechanical engineer before becoming a full-time writer and broadcaster in 2016. She published her debut memoir, Abdel-Magied’s Story, with Penguin Random House at age 24, and followed up with her first fiction book for younger readers, You Must Be Layla, in 2019. Abdel-Magied’s critically acclaimed essays have been published in numerous anthologies, including the best-selling It’s Not About the Burqa and The New Daughters of Africa. After hosting the internationally released documentary, The Truth About Racism, she created Hijabistas, a series looking at the modest fashion scene in Australia. Abdel-Magied is also a regular contributor to the BBC, the popular Guilty Feminist podcast and media outlets and literary festivals around the world.

Adam Shakinovsky is an author, speaker, film-maker and co-director of VERYFINE. He devotes his time to helping people, companies, charities and governments bodies tell their most important stories in the most effective way.

Kristian Brodie is a producer and writer based in London. He is the founder and co-host of OneTrackMinds, a live storytelling show all about the life-changing power of music. He has produced two feature films – the BIFA-winning documentary NEXT GOAL WINS (2014) and the BAFTA-winning thriller BEAST (2017). He is currently the Head of Development at Curzon Film.