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Erin went viral with her mashup of White Ferrari and I Know the End (which you can listen to on streaming). She's been on BBC Spotlight, and featured in Clash, Clout, Wonderland and Ones to Watch.

Although she was set to perform at The Great Escape festival, she's chosen to join the boycott on sponsor Barclays in solidarity with Palestine.

If you're looking for an artist set to take over Gen Z's hearts, she's right here.

Follow Erin on Instagram, Twitter (aka X), Youtube & TikTok.

One of Australian literature's biggest names, Kate has written countless novels about her country, her family and the complexity of the stories we tell. Her book, The Secret River, was Shortlisted for the Booker and won what is now the Women's Prize, as well as the now retired Commonwealth Prize. It's a set text for many teens across Australia and in leading universities.

She's shortlisted for this year's Women's Prize with her latest work, Restless Dolly Maunder, which imagines the life of her grandmother during what Kate calls the "hinge generation".

Get a copy here, or at your local bookshop.

Akemi is a rising star, and that's according to BBC Introducing, Fred Perry Subculture, Notion, Line of Best Fit & Metal Mag.

She was a guest at Chanel's Métiers d'Art Show in Manchester. She's played at Radio 1's Big Weekend and her song Lemon Tea has 1.7 million streams on Spotify.

She's featured on major Apple Music, Prime Music and Spotify playlists. Among them, Spotify & Chill, Spotify's R&B UK, Café Chillout, Choice Edit, Free Form, the night bus, LED Lights & songs you need to listen to to expand your music taste.

Find Akemi on TikTok and Instagram.

Effie is a scientist and a Women's Prize Longlisted Debut Novelist. This is her first podcast interview, you're welcome.

Her book has featured in The Guardian, The Independent, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping and The Bookseller.

Get yourself a copy of In Defence of the Act, here or at your local bookshop.

Not only is Heather a screen and theatre actress, she's a major rising star of British photography. She's been interviewed by The National Portrait Gallery, The Independent, Digital Spy, Tatler and BBC News.

Her screen work includes BBC's This is Going to Hurt and Prime's The Power. And her theatre career includes the Lyric's School Girls or the African Mean Girls Play, the National Theatre's Sankara and, most recently, the Bush Theatre's Shifters.

She's featured in galleries around the world and won prizes such as the London Emerging Photographer Award and the Jerwood Foundation New Work Fund. Arts Council England recently acquired a number of pieces from her latest collection 'ego death'.

She's a Nikon Ambassador for Europe. She has also given lectures at the Tate Modern, Somerset House, The British Library, Southbank Centre, The Centre for British Photography, The London Art Fair, Jerwood Space, The Photo Vogue Festival and Amherst College.

Heather has a BSc in Applied Psychology and an MA in Photography & Urban Cultures too.

More on her site.

Find Heather on Instagram too.

Flora's been praised by TLS and Times of London for her debut, The Tower. It's a Bookseller Editor's Choice Pick for March 2024.

She is also a critic & contributor for GQ, The Telegraph, Radio Times, TIME & The Guardian

She's been shortlisted for the V.S Pritchett Short Story Prize, won of the British Vogue Talent Contest and is one of the London Library's 40 Emerging Writers (2020/2021).

Get a copy of the book here, or at your local bookshop.

Known as Sugi, Vasugi Ganeshananthan is Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction with her second novel Brotherless Night. The book has also features on the New York Times Editor's Choice and The Washington Post's Best Books of the Year List. Get it here, or from your local bookseller.

Here's just a slice of her career from her website:

A former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association, she has also served on the board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and is presently a member of the boards of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.

The National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the American Academy in Berlin have awarded her fellowships.

She has served as visiting faculty at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan and at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and now teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota, where she is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and associate professor of English.

She co-hosts the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast on Literary Hub, which is about the intersection of literature and the news.

Noreen's Memoir, A Flat Place, is now Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction.

It was also a Book of the Year 2023 for The Guardian, Sunday Times & New Yorker. It was longlisted for The Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize, Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Author of the Year Award 2024 and Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2024.

Noreen lectures at Bristol in 20th Century Literature and has been published in outlets like TLS and Aeon. As an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker, she's done broadcast work includes Radio 3 and Radio 4's beloved In Our Time.

Find out more about Noreen's work here. And get yourself a copy of the book here, or at your local bookshop.

Taylor is one of the most exciting artists on your fyp. Her songs I Like Mondays and Quarter Life Crisis have gone super viral.

Quarter Life Crisis sparked a beautiful trend of appreciating our younger self and who we are now. Very fitting for her honest, empathetic writing style. It was streamed over 30 million times and used for 400k+ videos, even by Drew Barrymore and Kevin Jonas.

Her TikTok videos for I Like Mondays, released March 2024, have garnered millions of views. And rightly so. Her next song, Binary Code, is out 3rd May so get ready.

Her music has made it on huge Spotify playlists including: “Viral 50” (#10), “big on the internet,” “Pop Sauce,” “young & free,” “Chill Pop,” “New Pop Picks,” “Hits Don’t Lie," and “songs to scream in the car”.

Find Taylor here on TikTok and Instagram. Go listen to her music this instant!

Emma was Grammy Nominated for Best Director following her iconic music video for Janelle Monáe's song PYNK. She also directed Troye Sivan's Lucky Strike mv. Her debut feature, Bleeding Love, starring Ewan & Clara McGregor is out now. She also has another feature, Buffalo Flats, in development. Her TV work includes episodes of: Dollface, Little Voice and Long Slow Exhale.

We talk about making her latest film, the stars she's worked with, communicating on set and creative collaboration.

Book yourself a seat for Bleeding Love in your local or independent cinema of choice.