Chrys Salt:  has performed at festivals across the UK, Europe, the USA, Canada, Finland, and India and won numerous awards.  In 2012 The Burning was selected as one of the 20 Best Scottish Poems. In 2014 her pamphlet Weaver of Grass was shortlisted for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award. She received a Creative Scotland Bursary to finish her eighth collection Dancing on a Rock (Indigo Dreams Publishing, LTD), was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for Services to The Arts and was listed in Who’s Who.

Tom Pow:  has written across a range of genres, including fiction, non–fiction, drama, and works for children. But he is primarily a poet. His work explores the domestic, but it also travels to other places and other periods. Dear Alice, Narratives of Madness concerns the legacy of a nineteenth century lunatic asylum, while A Wild Adventure is a speculative poetic biography of Thomas Watling, a Dumfries forger transported to Botany Bay.

Michael Pedersen:  is an Edinburgh born poet, writer, babbler, etc. He won the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and John Mather’s Trust Rising Star of Literature; is a Canongate Future 40, a former Callum Macdonald Memorial Award finalist, and co–founder of literary powerhouse /publisher /record label Neu! Reekie!. He has published two successful chapbooks and a debut collection called Play With Me (Polygon, 2013). A second  collection Oyster will surface in 2017; and maybe a film–script.

Liz Niven:  is a Scottish poet. Her collections include Stravaigin, Burning Whins, and The Shard Box (Luath Press, Edinburgh). Public art collaborations include text in stone and wood and she has participated in poetry Festivals across the world. She is a former teacher and Cultural Co–ordinator and has facilitated poetry sessions for the Scottish Poetry Library, London Poetry Society, Galleries, and Museums. She has written a wide range of Scots education resources and is the author of Scots Dossier for European Bureau of Minority Languages. Twice awarded the Saltire / TESS, she is an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Literary Studies.