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Hanan is a Welsh-Iraqi poet and writer based in Cardiff.  She has been featured on both ITV Wales and BBC Wales and worked in partnership withNational Museum Wales, Artes Mundi, Warwick University,Swansea Fringe,StAnza Festival, WalesArts Review and Seren Books. Her work has been published in Banat Collective, Hedgehog Press, Wales Arts Review, Sukoon mag, Lumin Journal, Poetry Wales, Parthian, Y Stamp, sister-hood magazine and MuslimGirl.com.  Her winning monologue was featured at Bush Theatre’s Hijabi Monologues. She is the co-founder of Wales’ first BAME open mic series 'Where I'm Coming From'. She was a 2018-2019 Hay Festival Writer at Work.  Her debut poetry pamphlet ‘My Body Can House Two Hearts’ was published by BurningEye Books. She is a recipient of the 2020 Ffolio  - Ffilm Cymru/ BBC Wales short film commission.

Bertel Martin of Bristol Black Writers Group, Bertel Martin has been active in Bristol’s writing scene for over 25 years, as a writer, performer and producer. Promoting Caribbean and African writers in Yardstick and with the British Council. A co-founder of Word of Mouth (now Blah, Blah, Blah), Former Director of Plymouth International Book Festival and Director of City Chameleon, a publishing company specialising in poetry and short stories, Bertel has been published in a number of anthologies. Performance highlights include performing with Lee Evans, Benjamin Zephaniah, Attila Stockbroker and Jean "Binta" Breeze. Currently Bertel is on the board of directors of Bristol Short Story Prize and the board of Trustees of the Tobacco Factory and trying to find time for his own projects.