Zoe Turner graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a BA in English Literature having developed a specific interest in contemporary poetry. She went on to complete a Masters in Film and Television: Research and Production at the University of Birmingham. Zoe has previously run workshops to encourage community engagement with short form writing, and has worked alongside organisations such as Ort Gallery and The Barber Institute of Fine Arts to create films for digital engagement. She has also programmed film events for HOME and Flatpack Festival. In May 2019 she took over as co-host of Verbose, an award-winning spoken word night based in Manchester. In July 2019 she received a Print Futures Award from The Printing Charity and in January 2020 she was longlisted for a London Book Fair Trailblazer Award. In August 2020 she joined online feminist magazine The F-Word as their fiction editor and in 2021 she became a mentor for Arts Emergency. Angela Readman's short stories have won the Costa Short Story Award, The Mslexia Story Prize, and The Anton Chekhov Award for Short Fiction. Her debut collection Don't Try This at Home was published by And Other Stories. It won The Rubery Book Prize and was shortlisted in the Edge Hill Short Story Prize in 2015. She also writes poetry, and her collection The Book of Tides was published by Nine Arches in 2016. Something Like Breathing, her first novel, was published by And Other Stories in 2019.