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.

Her passion for storytelling turned into a full-time career as a journalism practitioner and educator. But it doesn’t stop there.

Elias Tewolde is a writer/soon-to-be author and poet. In this Lyric essay, he expresses his resistance to a forced narrative rendered by negative stereotypes surrounding the proud African identity.

My name is Salsabila, born in Indonesia and raised in Qatar.

Nour is a 21-year-old Sudanese writer and poet born and raised in Qatar and currently living in the Netherlands.