Julia Webb Poet

 

Julia Webb is a writer and artist based in Norwich. She has four poetry collections with Nine Arches Press: Bird Sisters (2016), Threat (2019) The Telling (2022) and Grey Time (2025).  In 2011 she won the Poetry Society’s Stanza competition and in 2018 she won the Battered Moons Poetry competition. She has had two poems highly commended in the Forward Prize (2016, 2022). Julia has taught creative writing for organisations such as Lapidus, MIND, Norfolk County Council, and The SAW Trust, and in 2016 she was writer in residence on Norwich market. In 2024 she was commissioned by The National Centre for writing and Living wage Foundation to write a poem for Living Wage Week. She currently runs real world and email poetry courses, and is a mentor for poets. She is steering editor for Lighthouse – a journal for new writers. 

 

Sue Burge is a freelance tutor, mentor and editor based in North Norfolk. She is also a film-studies tutor with a penchant for silent film, road movies and David Lynch. Her poems have been published in a wide range of journals and feature in themed anthologies on science fiction, modern Gothic, illness, Britishness, endangered birds, WWI and Laurel and Hardy. Her first pamphlet, Lumière (2018 Hedgehog Poetry Press) explores Paris’s cinematic and literary legacy; her second pamphlet, The Saltwater Diaries (Hedgehog Poetry Press) was published in 2020. She has three collections out with Live Canon: In the Kingdom of Shadows, Confetti Dancers and The Artificial Parisienne. The latter examines her edgy on-going relationship with Paris. Her eco-angst collection, watch it slowly fade, was published by Yaffle Press in July 2025.  www.sueburge.co.uk

 

Stuart Charlesworth was shortlisted in the 2021 Live Canon poetry competition and in the 2020 Rialto pamphlet competition. They were commended in the 2018 Brittle Star competition and the 2021 Hippocrates prize. Stuart has an MA in creative writing (UEA) and is a learning disabilities nurse. Will Harris described their poetry as A caring evocation of an enclosed world, which opens out into something more surreal and ragged. 

Jenny Pagdin’s first collection, The Snow Globe came out with Nine Arches Press in 2024. Her pamphlet Caldbeck was published by Eyewear in 2017, shortlisted for the Mslexia pamphlet competition and listed by the Poetry Book Society. Jenny lives in Norwich with her family, where she works in the voluntary sector. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a BA in English from Oxford University. Her poems have been Highly Commended and shortlisted in the Bridport Prize 2023, and won second prize, highly commended and the Norfolk Prize in the Café Writers Competition. Jenny was also longlisted for the Rebecca Swift Foundation’s 2018 Women’s Poetry Prize. Her work is featured in New Welsh Review, Smoke, Magma, Ambit, Spoonfeed, Wild Court, The Stand, Finished Creatures, Interpreter’s House, Ink, Sweat & Tears and Emma Press and Mum Press anthologies.

 

Anne Bailey is a Yorkshire woman now living and writing poems in North Norfolk. She has had her work published in many journals including three poems in ‘The Aftershock Review’ Issue 2 in 2026. She is a committee member for ‘Cafe Writers’ organising live poetry events in Norwich. Her poem was commended in the Ambit 2021 Poetry Competition and her first pamphlet ‘What the House Taught Us’ was published in winter 2021 by Emma Press.