About Poets and Writer

Courtney Conrad

Courtney Conrad is a Jamaican poet. Her debut pamphlet, I Am Evidence, is published by Bloodaxe Books. She is a winner of the Eric Gregory Award, Michael Marks Award, Bridport Prize Young Writers Award and Mslexia Women’s Pamphlet Prize. Shortlisted for The White Review Poet's Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize, the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition, the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award’s Poetry Prize, the Bridport Poetry Prize, Derby Poetry Festival Poetry Prize and the Poetry Wales Pamphlet competition. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Review, Magma Poetry, Propel Magazine, Poetry Wales, The White Review, Stand Magazine, The Indianapolis Review, Bath Magg, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Anthropocene Poetry Journal, Lumiere Review and The Adriatic Magazine. Her work has been anthologised by Anamot Press, Bridport Prize, Re.creation, Peekash Press, Bad Betty Press and Flipped Eye Press.

She is currently a Cave Canem fellow and an alumna of The London Library Emerging Writers Programme, Malika's Poetry Kitchen, Barbican Young Poets, Obsidian Foundation Fellow, Griots Well Collective, Poet in the City Producers Programme, Out-Spoken Press Emerging Poets Development Scheme and Roundhouse Poetry Collective.

John Agard

John Agard is a Guyanese poet, playwright, children’s writer, and educator. John was the first Writer in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre in 1993 and was honoured with a Paul Hamlyn Award in 1997. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and was awarded BookTrust’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. His books include Man to Pan (Casa de las Americas Prize, 1982), Mangoes and Bullets, We Animals Would Like a Word With You, and From the Devil’s Pulpit.

Rachael Minott

Rachael Minott is a Jamaican-born artist and heritage professional with extensive experience in facilitation and consultancy. Her research has been published widely and includes interventions in decolonial curatorial and heritage practice.