Sean Coletti: the founder of Writers' Bloc, University of Birmingham's creative writing society; founding member of Second City Poets (commissioned by Verve for Verve Poetry Festival 2019); assistant producer for UniSlam 2019-20; Verve Poetry Press' poet manager, assistant editor and in-house DJ
Kristal Phillips: a 22-year-old poet in her fourth year of study at the University of Warwick, soon to complete her MA in Writing. She was a winner of the Troubadour International Poetry Prize in 2018, and hosts ‘Shoot from the Lip’, a popular slam poetry event in Leamington Spa. She is currently working on a long ekphrastic project concerning Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) and her art
