JLM Morton is a writer, celebrant and creative producer. Her poetry has featured on BBC6 Music and appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry London, Rialto, Magma, Mslexia, The London Magazine, Poetry Birmingham, The Sunday Telegraph and elsewhere.
Her prose writing has won the Laurie Lee Prize, been longlisted for the Nan Shepherd prize and extracts from her nonfiction Tenderfoot have been published in Caught by the River, Oxford Review of Books and Elsewhere: A Journal of Place.
Juliette is the winner of the Geoffrey Dearmer and Poetry Archive Worldview Prizes and she is twice a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her debut poetry collection Red Handed, was highly commended by the Forward Prizes and a Poetry Society Book of the Year (Broken Sleep Books, 2024).
She teaches for Poetry School, Poetry Society, Women Poets Network and is the founding Director of Dialect Writers Collective. Her second poetry collection, Borrowed Ground, is forthcoming in August 2026 and her debut nonfiction in 2027.
Find her online: www.jlmmorton.com
Rachel Bower is a poet and novelist, based in Sheffield. Her debut novel, It Comes from the River, was published by Bloomsbury in 2025 and her third poetry collection, Bee, was published by Hazel Press in 2025. Rachel edited the Family Lines anthology with Simon Armitage (Faber & Faber, 2026) and the Verse Matters anthology with Helen Mort (Valley Press, 2017).
Rachel is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, based at the University of Sheffield. Her stories and poems have been widely published in literary magazines, including The Guardian, Poetry London, Magma, The Rialto and The London Magazine. She was awarded second prize in the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year 2024, and her poems have been shortlisted for many prizes including the Ginkgo Poetry Prize, Best Poem of British Landscape and The London Magazine Poetry Prize. Rachel won The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2019/20 and the W&A Short Story Competition 2020. Her work is represented by Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown.