Rhian Elizabeth is a trainee counsellor and a writer. She was born in 1988 in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales, and now lives in Cardiff. She is a Hay Festival Writer at Work and Writer in Residence at the Coracle International Literary Festival in Tranås, Sweden. girls etc is an important book which confronts frankly experiences of abuse in a lesbian relationship. The tender poems here unpacking motherhood and queer love are made all the more poignant through this contrast…

This is passionate, resonant writing.- John McCullough

Poet and radio presenter, clare facilitates workshops for wellbeing and is currently working on a poetry collection in Welsh. Her new book Healing the Pack, was written with thanks to a Literature Wales bursary and a Society of Authors grant.

Navigating this complex terrain of adversity and grief, we find a poet moving beyond fear and shame because there is a foundation of love, rooted in release through motherhood, nature, and language as witness, and primal call.

Bella Collins is a singer, guitarist, songwriter of Cardiff. Bella’s music is firmly rooted in the blues, but she has also absorbed

and been influenced by jazz, soul and old style R’n’B, and her unique vocal style and self penned songs reflect aspects of

those genres.

Bella is currently recording her first new music since 2016 and is thoroughly looking forward to getting on the road with

a new band line up and a set of newly penned material.