Francesca Reece is a writer from North Wales. Her debut novel Voyeur was published by Tinder Press in 2021, followed by Glass Houses in 2024. She has been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award and was the 2019 recipient of the Desperate Literature Prize for short fiction. Her work has featured in The London Magazine, Banshee, Literary Review, Elle UK, and on BBC Short Works. After several years living in Paris, she is now based in London.
Andrea Mason is a writer and artist based in London. Her fiction pamphlet Waste Extractions, was published in 2022 with Broken Sleep Books. She is Runner Up in the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, 2023, won the Aleph Writing Prize, 2020, was shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, 2020, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, 2018. Magazine, journal, online and anthology publications include DUMP Thoughts, issue 1, 22 Fictions (ed. Kate Ellis & Robert Loyko-Greer), Cybernetics, or Ghosts? Stories from Myth to A.I. (ed. Michael Salu),Eleven Stories, UEA New Writing, 3:AM Magazine, Failed States, Tar Press, The Happy Hypocrite and Frozen Tears.
Aoife Inman is a writer from West Penwith, a peninsula at the furthest end of Cornwall. Her short fiction has been published in The London Magazine, shortlisted for the V.S. Pritchett Award and won the Brick Lane Short Story Prize 2021. She has a Masters from the University of Manchester, where her research focused on the relationship between memory and landscape in post-conflict communities. By day she works in publishing.
Max Lury is a British writer based in London. He received the 2022 Curtis Brown Prize whilst at UEA, and won the 23/24 Galley Beggar Short Story Prize, alongside being shortlisted for the 2022 Brick Lane Short Story Prize. His work has been previously published in The End, the Lighthouse Journal, and Tar Press. His debut novel, NO GHOSTS, is forthcoming in 2026.
