Alex (He/Him) is a trans UK university student with an inclination towards introspective, darker themes, and spends his time on multiple streaming services. He also adores the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and is set this year to complete a Creative Writing Masters. He also has work out with Not Deer Mag, Tealight Press, Ghost Orchid Press, Green Ink Poetry, The Minison Project, Hallowzine and he can be found on Twitter at @AlexakaSatan.
Melissa Flores Anderson (she/her) is a Latinx Californian whose creative work has been featured in more than 40 literary venues and anthologies, including swamp pink, HAD and The Write Launch. She is a reader/editor with Roi Fainéant Press. She has co-authored a novelette, “Roadkill,” (ELJ Editions) and a chapbook “A Body in Motion,” (JAKE). Follow her on Twitter and Bluesky @melissacuisine or IG/Threads @theirishmonths. Read her work at melissafloresandersonwrites.com.
Don Bosco (he/him) has been creating interactive amusements for over 20 years. These days he works in Twine for prototyping and playtesting, and often exports to text for sharing and printing. He lives in Singapore and can be contacted athttps://slowskull.blogspot.com.
But Why? specialise in entertainment that blurs boundaries between theatre, film, psychological illusions, and gaming. By giving audiences a pivotal role within the worlds they build and the stories they tell, But Why?’s innovative productions are always live, social, and thrilling whether experiencing them from your bedroom, living room, or in an unexpected venue.
Gemma Brockis is a UK-based director, actor, writer and artist.
She has just finished a year working with world-renowned Complicité on Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. First as assistant director and then performing on European tour.
She is currently creating a lecture and support materials on The History of the Kiss, in affiliation with her university – The University of O.
From 2000-2014, she was a founder, co-artistic director and performer within the Shunt collective.
Ari Brown (she/her) is a copywriter based in NYC. Her hobbies that she loves to hate and hates to love include writing, running, and tending to her betta fish. You can find her work at Aribrown.org, and her musings @itsaribrown.
Ken Krantz (he/him) is a multimedia artist in Brooklyn. His passion is self-imposed deadlines. Find his work at goodkenergy.com or @goodkenergy on any social media.
Jo Clark is a developing writer living in the north of England. She enjoys running, sailing and rowing, and begrudgingly endures co-habitation with a cat who takes his alarm clock role far too seriously. Jo started writing flash in 2021 and enjoys experimenting with form and perspective in fiction. Her words have been featured in Funny Pearls and Daily Drunk, and she took 3rd place in the Spring 2022 Propelling Pencil Flash Fiction competition.
EJ Croll (they/them) is a 22-year-old writer from London, who loves writing weird/speculative poetry and fiction. They have had work published in HAD and Knee Brace Press, and are currently working on their first novel.
Twitter: @ ejcrollwriter
Jubilee Finnegan (they/them) is a writer based out of Southern California with a pension for the odd. They’ve published poetry, short fiction, and tabletop RPGs in a myriad of publications. You can find these and more on their Twitter @FinneyFlame or on their Instagram @JWFinnegan
Jo Gatford is a short writer who mostly writes short things. Her work has recently been published by National Flash Fiction Day, HAD, Flash Frog, and The Oxford Prize. Some of her writing even wins prizes, which is nice. She is also a novelist, poet, scriptwriter theatre maker, and edits other people’s words for her supper. More at www.jogatford.com and various socials @jmgatford
Jaime Gill is an award-winning writer and creative whose journalism, features and fiction have been published around the world by such titles as The Guardian, BBC, Wanderlust, Bangkok Post, and Phnom Penh Post. He was born in Britain but left in 2014 and is not responsible for any of the country’s decisions after that date. He works for development organisations across South East Asia and lives in Cambodia while working haphazardly on a novel, film script, and far too many stories, three of which were recently longlisted in international contests by The Masters Review, The Bridport Prize and Elegant Literature.
Arden Hunter is an aroace agender writer, artist and performer. With an eclectic range of interests from the horrific to the whimsical, the theme tying all of their work together is an inexplicable and unconditional love of the ridiculous beast that is called ‘human’. Arden has words and art hosted and upcoming with Thi Wurd, Acid Bath Publishing and Kissing Dynamite among other places. Find them on Twitter @hunterarden and at ardenhunter.com.
Daniel Johnstone (he/him) is a queer poet based in Scotland. Outside of writing, he is a student doctor and suicide hotline volunteer. His recent work is forthcoming in Fifth Wheel Press and Death’s Dormant Daughter. His poetry inspiration is his partner, Carl Alexandersson. For tweets and twitterings: @danjoh_
kris (she/her) is a pixel artist for hire that also enjoys writing (even if she hasn’t finished much) especially solo-journaling rpgs as of late. kris currently has a prose piece in the Bonemilk Anthology by Gutslut Press titled Iron. You can find her on twitter @K_G_Taverty for most things and @PixelsBykris for pixel art commissions and retweets.
Silvia Mercurali is a British-Italian theatre maker and artist, originally from Milan and based in London since 2000. She is best known as one of the pioneers of the strategy of AUTOTEATRO, which she developed for the show Etiquette in 2007 with her company Rotozaza. The Eye is a short opera choreographed for one eye and commissioned by Fuel Theatre as part of a series of podcasts on the body presented by The Guardian
Nick Murray is a producer, composer and artist making interactive sonic and narrative work focusing on loss and digital cultures. This often takes the form of games, interactive poetry and performance. Nick is Lead producer for Now Play This at Somerset House, Director of Playing Poetry and associate producer with Penned in the Margins.
Katy Naylor is your void in chief. Find more of her writing at voidskrawl.com
Luca Silvestrini’s Protein Dance connects people to the performance through storytelling, locations or the way in which the performers invite them in, breaking down the boundaries between watching and participating.
Stairworks, Protein’s first piece for The Wapping Project, was commissioned as part of the Jerwood 10 X 8: Stairworks series, and guest–curated by Siobhan Davies. Eight choreographers were invited to make a 10-minute piece intended to be caught out of the corner of the viewer’s eye, and to play with the idea of what a dance performance could be and where it can be performed.
Conceived and choreographed by Luca Silvestrini and Bettina Strickler
Directed by Bettina Strickler
Devised and performed by Jean Abreu, Robin Dingemans, Eddie Nixon and Luca Silvestrini from Protein; Ben Abbott, Ilkka Kokkonen, Johan Stjernholm and Kristoffer Hahn from Laban Centre; Daniel Watson from Roehampton Institute, with John Milroy and Andy Lee
Music by Antonio Vivaldi
Sound design by Simon Redfern
Lighting design by Claire Malleson
Created, performed and filmed at The Wapping Hydraulic Power Station as part of Jerwood 10X8 – Stairworks 2001.
Commissioned by The Wapping Project and The Jerwood Charitable Foundation, with support from Laban Centre (now Trinity Lanban) and Roehampton Institute
Calum Rodger is a Glasgow-based poet, performer and software engineer. His works include PORTS (twentieth-century poems reimagined as videogame instructions, SPAM Press 2019), Rock, Star, North. (machinima filmpoem and performance set in the Grand Theft Auto universe, 2021), and browser games such as Gotta Eat the Plums! with William Carlos Williams (2020) and Rabbie Burns Saves the World! (And, by Extension, Book Week Scotland) (2020). A former precarious academic with a PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of Glasgow, in 2022 Rodger retrained in software development, in which capacity he now works for a Scottish media company. Stanzafier is his first web app.
KJ Shepherd [they/them] lives in Austin, Texas.
Matt Schultz is the author of two novels: On Coventry and We, The Wanted. His chapbook, Parallax, is available from 2River Press and he has collections forthcoming with Beir Bua Press and ELJ Editions in 2022.
Chrissy Stegman (she/her) is a poet/writer from Baltimore, Maryland. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in: Rejection Letters, Gone Lawn, Gargoyle Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, Poverty House, Stone Circle Review, Fictive Dream. She is a 2023 Best of the Net Nominee.
This Wicked Day (he/him) will try a lot of hobbies once, but the ones that have stuck are writing, sewing and live action roleplay. He has a couple of other things at thiswickedday.itch.io.
Sheri White’s stories have been published in many anthologies and zines, including an essay in the Notable Works for the HWA Mental Health Initiative, an essay in JAKE Magazine, Tales from the Crust (edited by Max Booth III and David James Keaton), Halldark Holidays (edited by Gabino Iglesias), and The Horror Writers Association’s Don’t Turn Out the Lights (edited by Jonathan Maberry).
Jaimie Willden (they/them) and Heike Hauge (he/him) write games together from Fargo, North Dakota. Between the two of them, they’ve played just about every TTRPG you can think of and are always busy writing more for their goofball website, Sad Goose Cooperative (sadgoosecoop.weebly.com). Find Jamie on Twitter @willdenclair and find Luke in the library, sneakily reading forbidden texts.
Wes Viola is a pen name of Wes White. A graduate of Goldsmiths’ Creative and Life Writing MA, Wes is the 10th Bard of Glastonbury and a past winner of the poetry prize at Wells Festival of Literature. A frequent contributor to voidspace, his work has also recently been featured in Eunoia Review, Obsessed with Pipework, Visual Verse, Trash Wonderland, and Broken Sleep Books’ Masculinity Anthology.
In 2024 he hopes to complete the minor Arcana of a Tarot deck designed to accompany his ‘Way to Zed’ cycle of poems dedicated to the letters of the English alphabet. He is also working on a fantasy game text of considerably greater length than the Gamepoem he’ll be presenting at Voidspace Live. You can explore more of his work at https://linktr.ee/wesviola
Mark Ward is the author of Nightlight (Salmon Poetry, 2023) and four chapbooks: Circumference (FLP, 2018), Carcass (7KP, 2020), HIKE (Bear Creek, 2022) and the Choose Your Own Adventure sonnet, Faultlines (voidspace, 2024). He edits Impossible Archetype, an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry, now in its seventh year.
Neil Willcox is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet, swords and sorcery scribe and semi-professional crime writer. As well as contributing to voidspace his work can be found in Kaleidotrope, Swords And Sorcery Magazine, Roi Fainéant, Crow And Cross Keys, Misery Tourism and Corvid Queen. He lives in South East England where he can be found pursuing interests such as doppelgangers, pantoums, cooking, medieval myths and strange crime. He can be found online at nightofthahats.blogspot.com and on the site formerly known as twitter @neil_will