PHONETIC

Phonetic is synonymous with Brighton’s thriving hip hop scene, thanks to her skills on the mic, combined with her unwavering creative drive. In the past, she has supported artists such as Rag’N’Bone Man, Children of Zeus, Skinnyman, LEVELZ, High Focus, Mic Righteous and Amy True, and is currently working on her very first solo project – Percival Terrace - which promises to be a boom bap heavy affair, peppered with elements of trap... the perfect springboard for her official launch into the UK scene and beyond!

Laurie Bolger is a London based Writer. Her work has featured at Glastonbury Festival, TATE, Sky Arts & BBC platforms. Laurie has been running creative workshops for the past decade & is founder of The Creative Writing Breakfast Club bringing people to write together every Sunday morning 10am via Zoom. Laurie is currently working on her second book Call Me Lady a collection of poems celebrating autonomy, love and her working class Irish heritage.

Twitter @lauriebolger Instagram @lauriebolger_

http://www.lauriebolger.com

John Osborne writes poems, stories and scripts. His poetry has appeared on Radio 1, Radio 4, BBC 6Music and XFM and he has performed at Glastonbury, Latitude, Bestival and the Edinburgh fringe. His first book Radio Head was Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 and his new poetry book A Supermarket Love Story is published by Go Faster Stripe.

Dr Rosy Carrick is a poet, playwright, performer and translator. She has co-hosted the poetry stages at Latitude and Glastonbury festivals for the last decade, and for seven years (until Dec 2015), she ran and compered Brighton's monthly slam poetry event Hammer & Tongue, described by the Guardian as having 'reinvented the medium for the hip hop generation'.

Rosy's "best of..." poetry collection Chokey was published in 2018 by Burning Eye Books, and its follow-up, 26 Letters, is due for release in early 2023. Meanwhile, her critically acclaimed solo performance play Passionate Machine won the awards for Best Design and Best New Play at Brighton Fringe in 2018, and The Infallibles Award for Theatrical Excellence at Edinburgh Fringe, before touring internationally throughout 2019. This year will see the release of Rosy’s second play, Musclebound, a new play about sexual power and tortured musclemen in mainstream movies of the 80s and 90s.

Rosy has a PhD on the poetry of the Russian revolutionary writer Vladimir Mayakovsky and has released two books of his work in translation. She is currently working on a collection of Mayakovsky's never-before-translated children's poetry, which will be published in 2023 by The 87 Press.

Dr Rosy Carrick

http://www.rosycarrick.com

PASSIONATE MACHINE

WINNER 2018 BRIGHTON FRINGE Best New Play, Best Design