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Current student at NYU Tisch; she is a filmmaker and writer with many tabs open (mainly Substack). An alum of Interlochen Arts Academy and the inaugural Baret class, she tries to understand life by writing about it through poetry, screenplays, and stage plays. She has worked on films featured at SXSW, Netflix, and Oscar-nominated projects.

Founding editor of Accent. First year Politics and Sociology student at UCL. Northern Irish and Turkish. His biggest inspirations lately have been Matty Healy and David Bowie.

Somali writer raised between Nairobi and Ohio. His work explores identity, displacement, and the absurdity of belonging to many places at once.

She found her words better in her second language but felt more profusely in her native tongue. The curse of a child who lived far from her childhood, with more love in her head than her heart was ever capable of.

Published Author. Anthropology and Spanish undergraduate based in New York. Inspired by Philosophy, Language Learning, and Cultural Learning. Hopes to share his experience to provide hope, and make people feel seen and heard.

A young Kenyan writer based in Leeds studying English and Creative Writing, with an interest in the intersection of writing and culture, and in spaces for unheard voices in literature. She takes inspiration in exploring belonging, identity, and relationships, and all the places in between.

Pursuing her BSN at the University of Michigan. Prior, she attended Interlochen Arts Academy where she specialised in creative writing. Her work has been recognised by Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Youth Playwrights Festival, and Interlochen Review.

Writer. Mathematics undergraduate at University of Leeds. He loves Frank Ocean (favourite song Forrest Gump) and takes inspiration for writing from travelling and failed relationships.

Writer and student based in New York. Raised in the UK by Pakistani parents, she writes about the places and people she carries with her. Her work lives in the space between leaving and arriving.