My name is Mark Owoola (I use M3RK as my pen name), and I am a 22-year-old graduate student at the University of Missouri.

I am an opportunistic young individual trying to take on the world like a storm.

I am a student at Middlesex University, and I am 20 years old.

My name is Abu. There are countless narratives and experiences building day by day within us, and I feel art through any medium achieves a form of personal expression that we may find difficult to delineate normally. We may come from polar opposite extremes in every regard, but our differences should be a way to communicate and connect with each other, not push us away.

Firnita is a story enthusiast from Indonesia.

Justice Thompson is a 19-year-old college student from Kansas City, MO.

Macduff “JPTR Sol” Valashiya is a 26-year-old from the city of Kimberley in the Northern Cape province of South Africa

Salwa Sadek is an Egyptian-Australian poet and spoken word artist. Her passion for storytelling through studying journalism sparked her interest in telling her own stories through poetic form.

Samantha Paige is a student of several years and a poet of many more.

My name is Zhama Jumbo, and I am a Leeds-based animator from London.