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John McCullough lives in Hove on the south coast. His latest book of poems, Reckless Paper Birds (Penned in the Margins) won the 2020 Hawthornden prize for literature and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award.

Paul McDonald taught at the University of Wolverhampton for 25 years, where he ran the Creative Writing Programme, before taking early retirement in 2019. He is the author of 20 books to date, which includes fiction, poetry and scholarship. His most recent poetry collection is 60 Poems (Greenwich Exchange Press, 2023)

Beth McDonough is a Dundee-based poet who co-hosts Platform Sessions in Fife. Her pamphlet Lamping for pickled fish is published by 4Word. Makar of the Federation of Writers (Scotland) in 2022, currently she’s working on a hybrid project on outdoor swimming, and a collaborative collection with Nikki Robson. Both books are scheduled for publication this year.

Gill McEvoy lives in Devon. She won the 2015 Michael Marks Award for The First Telling (Happenstance Press). She has also published two collections with Cinnamon Press: The Plucking Shed (2010) and Rise (2013). She is one of six featured poets in Caboodle published by Prole Books and is also a Hawthornden Fellow.

Roger McGough was born in Liverpool in 1937. He sold over a million records as one of The Scaffold in the late 1960s, and has since led a wide-ranging and successful poetry career, publishing over forty poetry collections for children and adults. He was made President of the Poetry Society in December 2011 and presents Radio 4’s Poetry, Please. 

Victoria McGrane is an Australian artist and designer based in Burketown, North Queensland. Her intricate and delicate illustrations are inspired by her love of travel and capture the flora and fauna of her native country. Her background is in the visual arts but she now works equally in textile design and has collaborated with a number of major brands in Australia and Europe.