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Andrew McMillan
Andrew McMillan is a poet and senior lecturer at the Manchester Writing School at MMU and lives in Manchester. His debut collection physical was the first ever poetry collection to win The Guardian First Book Award. The collection also won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, a Somerset Maugham Award (2016), an Eric Gregory Award (2016) and a Northern Writers’ award (2014). In 2019 it was voted as one of the top 25 poetry books of the past 25 years by the Booksellers Association. His second collection, playtime, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2018; it was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Autumn 2018, a Poetry Book of the Month in both The Observer and The Telegraph, a Poetry Book of the Year in The Sunday Times and won the inaugural Polari Prize.
Helen Moore
Helen Moore is an award-winning British ecopoet with three collections, Hedge Fund, And Other Living Margins (2012), ECOZOA (2015), acclaimed as ‘a milestone in the journey of ecopoetics’, and The Mother Country (2019) exploring British colonial history. Helen has shared her work on international stages, including India, Australia and Italy. She offers an online mentoring programme, Wild Ways to Writing, which guides people on a creative writing journey into deeper Nature connection. Her work is supported by Arts Council England, and she has recently collaborated on a cross arts-science project responding to pollution in Poole Bay and its river-systems.
You can find more about Helen and her work at www.helenmoorepoet.com
Ian McLachlan
Ian McLachlan is a founding member of Poets for the Planet and a member of Extinction Rebellion Hackney. He has had more than fifty poems published in magazines and anthologies. His pamphlet Confronting the Danger of Art (Sidekick Books) was displayed in The Treasures Gallery at the British Library as part of an exhibition celebrating a decade of the Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlet Awards. In 2021 Ian co-organised, hosted and performed at Earthsong, an ecopoetry event consisting of 19 poets from five continents performing in 12 different languages. Earthsong ran at COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow and at the Great Exhibition Road Festival in South Kensington.
You can find Ian on social media @ianjmclachlan
Catherine Gemmell
Catherine Gemmell is the Marine Conservation Societies Scotland Conservation Officer. Her work covers many different projects from education and public engagement to campaigns and policy. From music and dance to sculpture and poetry, she has helped to raise awareness of ocean conservation and help call for action. Prior to MCS she has held several public engagement and environmental education roles. She has been working for a marine conservation charity and volunteering as a STEM Ambassador to help inspire some ocean optimism and encourage everyone to take action to protect our incredible seas. Catherine has also worked with many creatives to help give the Ocean a voice.
Daniel Fraser - JUDGE
Daniel Fraser is a writer from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire currently living in London. He has previously worked in the publishing industry for six years in editorial, digital, and marketing roles. His essays, reviews, interviews, fiction, and poetry have been featured in a wide range of print and online media including: Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon, the London Magazine, Mute, the Rumpus, and others. He was the founder of the Oubliette, a journal of art and writing exploring forgotten places, and formerly an editor at Ready Steady Book.
Find Daniel on Twitter @oubliette_mag or email: danieljfraser87@gmail.com
Ash Davida Jane - JUDGE
Ash Davida Jane is a writer from Pōneke, and an editor at We Are Babies Press. Her second collection of poetry How to Live With Mammals was published by Te Herenga Waka University Press, and won second place in the 2021 Laurel Prize. Jane holds an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and a BA(Hons) in English Literature from Victoria University. She was a co-coordinator of the 2021 Performance Arcade Summer Poets' Showcase, and is currently curating a series of poetry readings at Unity Books Wellington called Last Friday Poems.
Hannah Grist
Dr Hannah Grist is a marine ecologist, outdoor learning leader and community participation advocate. She currently works as a Lecturer in Socio-Environmental Systems, based at SRUC in Edinburgh, and as the Director of a communications consultancy called Mercurious. Prior to this, Hannah worked for 6 years at the Scottish Association for Marine Science as a postdoctoral research and knowledge exchange fellow, leading citizen science and art-science projects around the marine and coastal environments.