Bixente Saunier is a Creative Writing and English Literature student at the University of Westminster. He is an accomplished traveller who is passionate about the world’s culture. Aside from work and studies, his interest in food, music, nature, books, and even exhibitions are some of his principal hobbies.

Nisha Patel is a second year student studying Creative Writing and English Language at the University of Westminster. She is a writer dreaming from her own little world, looking upon the cities lit by the stars. She adores creative writing as her company, particularly poetry. Watching period dramas such as Belgravia, captivates her. She loves reading many great quotes about: romance, nature, genius and life. She loves embracing the warmth of nature, while watching flowers bloom. Hearing the birds tweet gives her joy and hope. She also enjoys watching the sunlight, making trees glow. Seeing the light illuminating inspiration around her.

Jamelia White-Akingbade is a second-year Creative Writing and English Literature student born and raised in United Kingdom, Greater London. She is an inspiring Artist who likes to do paintings and drawings and a long time Dystopian book lover. She is learning French in her spare time. She has an interest in Acting and Performing and is blogging on WordPress to display her interest in nature ,poetry, non-fiction and fictional book reviews, photography and global issues. She likes to write fictional stories while consuming herbal tea in most forms and comfortable clothing.

Eleanor Forrest is a second-year English Literature and Creative Writing student who wants to become a screenwriter one day. Her dream is to one day reach an audience of all ages and change lives in the way that fiction changed hers, but for now she’s focused on taking one day at a time. She loves digital art, video games, binge-watching animated tv shows and being generally eccentric.

Cheyenne Holborough is a second-year English Literature with Creative Writing student born and bred in East London. She loves to write scripts, poetry and short fiction and loves how cathartic it is to finish a piece of writing. In her spare time, she learns Japanese but also wishes to learn many other languages and plays instruments such as the violin, guitar and the ukulele. She is currently working on a screenplay in the sci-fi fantasy genre.

Lisa-Marie Hübner, born and raised in Germany, moved to London in 2019 to study Creative Writing and English Language at University of Westminster. She likes to explore the possibilities of life through experience and imagination, on paper and on stage. Her background as a trained actress helps her in order to bring her writing to life. She also enjoys traveling, getting in touch with different cultures and learning new languages. 

Kate Pollack is a second-year international student from across the pond who’s quite glad to have more than a couple hundred years of history to explore. She’s deeply invested in the realm of theatre and playwriting, finding it potentially too therapeutic to lose herself in the lives and stories portrayed on the stage. One day she hopes to work in dramaturgy which, for those who don’t know which is likely most of you, is the study of the dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. Until then, she plans on enjoying her tenure as a scholar for as long as possible before entering the real world.

Benjamin Carr-Jones is a second-year student currently studying Creative Writing and English Language. He decided at the early age of 12 that he wanted to become a writer of fiction and believed that this was the best course of action to pursue that dream. Doesn’t account for his laziness and obsession with video games and YouTube.

Mia Burnette-Wade is a second-year Creative Writing and English Literature student. Her interests include poetry, films, writing, nineteenth-century literature and music. Currently she is working on her first novel.

James Robinson is a second-year Creative writing/English Literature student. He has spent the last twenty years working as a Master Stonemason and is now beginning to forge his career change beginning with this degree. He is interested in the deeper meaning of everything, and is always curious about the ‘edge’. 

Eimantas Skackauskas is a second year student of Creative Writing and English Literature who is prone to writing depressing poetry and short stories about dystopian worlds. A connoisseur of Greek myths and all kinds of pasta, there is no stopping this madman from conquering the world of writing.

Shane Chase is a second-year student studying Creative Writing and English Literature at University of Westminster in London. Originally from Florida, he received a scholarship to study at the Lorenzo Di Medici Institute in Florence, Italy in 2018 and has lived abroad ever since. Shane focuses on writing experimental fiction and short stories that look to explore the human condition. 

Veronika Chmelikova is a second-year Creative Writing and English Literature student at University of Westminster. Her interests are history, art, films, travelling and of course writing. She writes short stories and working on her first novel.

Mia Choudhury is a second-year English Language and Creative Writing student at the University of Westminster. She’s a creative soul and enjoys many of the arts including: music, painting, reading and theatre. She writes fiction and poetry in oversized jumpers, drinking many cups of tea.

Jasmine Blue has always had a passion for story-writing, prose fiction, poetry and the occasional journalistic piece. Overall, she aims to tackle a wide range of topics in her writing including: mental health, relationships, world cultures, politics and current affairs. She hopes to enter the publishing/editing world once she graduates.

Vittoria Benedetti is a second-year Creative writing and English Literature student at the University of Westminster. Her interests include fiction and film and dramatic writing.

Paula Moreno is a dreamy Spaniard who left everything behind to come to London. While currently on her second year in Creative Writing and English Literature, she is mainly interested in writing poetry and journalistic pieces, though she also enjoys writing fiction and wants to explore the fascinating field of screenwriting. Her writing is usually focused on philosophical matters, mythology, feminism and the imagery of the universe. She published her first poetry collection in December 2017 and is now working on her first novel.

Samya Ahmed is an English Literature and Creative Writing student at Westminster University. She enjoys reading and writing poetry and adores the Harry Potter series.

Khadijah Rahman is a second-year student with a particular interest for Shakespearean plays and the Romantic poets.

Maria Frankasse is our East London writer. Yes, that includes vintage coats, strange eyewear and white socks (that are much whiter than everyone else’s). She does, however, break the stereotype by not being into coffee, nor vinyl music. Shame. Most of her work is on the spiritual lives of the London Millennial. By living the world through her own emotions – from Fear to Freedom – Frankasse exposes the challenges faced by her Instagram Generation. The odd reality behind the filters, pretty smiles, and great meals. Do millennials pray, ask a yes-or-no question to an app, or commit suicide? In her spare time, Maria likes to burn Sage to clear out negative energy, cuppas of Lemon & Ginger tea, and reading magazines under £1 (or buy 2 for £3). She reads the Tarot, watches Disney films, and browses through Amazon.co.uk like she can afford material things. Currently pulling through a first novel, along with a degree in Creative Writing & English Literature, and working as an Assistant Manager in Hackney.

Matt Morrison is a writer and performer. He has had plays produced at theatres including The Riverside Studios, The Finborough, The Arcola, Wilton’s Music Hall, The Gate, Theatre Clwyd and The Old Vic Tunnels. His play Inside Out was produced at the inaugural HighTide festival and he was one of the winners of the 2011 Papatango New Writing awards. He has also written short-stories, radio comedy for the BBC, and two non-fiction books. Matt trained as an actor at the National Youth Theatre and The Poor School and has performed in venues including the Tricycle, the Battersea Arts Centre, The Watermill, The Yvonne Arnaud and The Arts Theatre, Leicester Square. He has a first class degree in Philosophy from the University of York and a PhD in theatre history. He is course leader for Creative Writing degrees at the University of Westminster.

@matt_morrison77

http://matthewmorrison77.blogspot.co.uk/

Michael Nath was brought up in South Wales and Lincolnshire. He is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Westminster. His major teaching and research interests are in Creative Writing and Modernism, as well as in Shakespearean Drama. His latest novel, British Story, was a Morning Star book of the Year. His first novel, La Rochelle, was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.

https://michaelnath.wordpress.com/biog/

Hannah Buff is a second-year English Language and Creative Writing student at the University of Westminster. She writes fiction and journalism, is Social Secretary for the English Society and Co-Editor of The Wells Muse.

@heavenlywritten

Cameron Sherwell is an English Literature and Creative Writing student at Westminster University. His interests include essay writing and fiction.

Rhianna Saunders is a freckled speckled Londoner currently studying Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Westminster. Her main writing interests are fictional pieces in Distopic, cyberpunk or science fictional settings. Her goal in life (next to writing) is to befriend at least one of every animal on the planet.

rhiannasaunders.wordpress.com/

@RhiannaMarie96

Alex Hancock is a writer, journalist and musician. He launched a music newspaper in 2011 and has interviewed artists including The Oscillation, The Black Angels, Jason Quever, A Place To Bury Strangers, Sarabeth Tucek and members of The Verve and Gorillaz. He has toured across Europe as a guitarist and percussionist, written for radio and collaborated with Julian Hand on an NME Exclusive video for Mama Rosin.

Lucy Cranfield is currently in her second year at the University of Westminster studying English Language and Creative Writing. Her interest include Non-fiction and Play Writing.

Zainab Dawood is in her final  year at the University of Westminster and is currently working on her first novel.

Maddie Kalta is a second year creative writing and English language student. British and half Egyptian, she loves travelling, woolly jumpers and BIC pens.

Shivani J. K. Rayat is a student at the University of Westminster with a particular interest in film and dramatic writing.

Marta Sobczak is a second year Creative Writing and English Language student. One of her greatest passions beside writing is music. She’s also in a tempestuous, if very romantic, on-off relationship with London..

Krystyna Grodzicka is a second year Creative Writing and English Language student. One of her greatest passions apart from writing is history, particularly female historical figures, their daily lives, and the impact they had on their contemporaries and future generations.

Cagla Kuru is a second year English Language and Creative Writing student at the University of Westminster. She enjoys writing fiction, poetry and dramatic writing.

Hannah Copley is a poet and academic. She works as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Westminster and is also the poetry editor of the Mechanic’s Institute Review. Her poems and articles have been published extensively, including in Stand, Agenda, Poetry & Audience, Cadaverine,Iota, Strix,and Tears in the Fence, and anthologies such as Verse Matters (Valley Press), Skein (Templar), and the 2018 Best New British and Irish Poets(Eyewear). She won the 2018 YorkMix/York Literature Festival Poetry Prize and has been highly commended in the 2015/16 Faber New Poets Prize, and the 2017 Hippocrates Prize. Her collection will be published next year. She tweets @hlcopley and occasionally blogs