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Colin Bramwell

Colin Bramwell is from the Black Isle. His latest show, Umbrella Man, was highly acclaimed during a recent tour of global Fringe festivals, and recommences its UK tour in September. His pamphlet, The Highland Citizenship Test, was published by Stewed Rhubarb in March 2021; his work has appeared in Gutter, The Scotsman, Northwords Now and Bella Caledonia. Colin is currently working towards a doctorate on poetry, translation and Scots at the University of St Andrews. He writes and performs in English and Scots.

Joelle Taylor

Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet and author who prior to the pandemic completed a world tour with her collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. She founded SLAMbassadors, the UK national youth poetry slam championships, as well as the international spoken-word project Borderlines. She is widely anthologised, the author of 4 collections of poetry and is currently completing her debut collection of inter-connecting short stories The Night Alphabet. Her new book C+NTO & Othered Poems was published in June 2021 and is the subject of the Radio 4 arts documentary Butch. C+nto has been named by The Telegraph as one of the books of the year, as well as DIVA magazine’s Book of the Month, and awarded 5 stars by the Morning Star. She has received a Changemaker Award from the Southbank Centre, a Fellowship of the RSA, and her poem Valentine was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize. She is a co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live, a poetry and music club currently resident at the Southbank Centre; and the commissioning editor at Out-Spoken Press.