Poets Inc

Gav Cross is a storyteller that gets away with shouting at families and grown-ups for a living.

Often found lurking around the worst corners of a Ghost Story, Nursery Rhyme or Fairy Tale, Gav assures you that the tears of his audience are usually from laughter and not terror.

Usually.

Maria Ferguson is a writer and performer. Her poetry has been widely anthologised and published in literary magazines such as Magma, The Rialto, The North and The Poetry Review. She was a finalist of the Montreal International Poetry Prize and her debut collection, Alright, Girl? (Burning Eye, 2020), was Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. On the stage, Fat Girls Don’t Dance won a Saboteur Award; Essex Girl was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award and won Show of the Week at VAULT Festival. Her second poetry collection, Swell is published by Penguin Random House.

Christina is a development librarian, poet, hiker, and mother based in West Yorkshire. She worked on her first poetry collection as part of her AHRC funded doctoral research, exploring parenting, identity and the experience of feeling ‘other’. Her collection ‘What Do We Hold’ (unpublished) reveals the joys and frustrations of living in a neurodiverse household, challenging some of the dominant narratives around mothering and presenting mothering, like writing, as a process of exploration.

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