The Team

Anna Percy has a Creative Writing MA from University of Manchester and is a current PhD Candidate at MMU. Her first full length collection Livid Among the Ghostings was published by Flapjack press in 2013. Recent publications include Bloodaxe’s Hallelujah for 50 Foot Women and Pankhearst Press’ This Body I Live In. Her joint collection written with Becca Audra Smith is out on Flapjack press in 2016.

Rebecca Audra Smith is a lyrical feminist poet living in Manchester. She is a member of Stirred Poetry Feminist Collective and Artipeeps, a project which investigates mythology and wellbeing. She is published in a range of anthologies including Loose Muse, Slim Volumes, Great Weather for Media, and Blood Axe Anthology Raving Beauties, and has finalised in the Super Hero Slam heat, and the Anti Slam 2015.

Jasmine Chatfield is a writer and poet currently based in Manchester. As well as being part of the Stirred Poetry collective, Jasmine co-runs the monthly literature cabaret event FLIM NITE. Her work has been published in Neon, NOUS, The Cadaverine and Sleepy House Press among other places. Jasmine also collaborates with Lenni Sanders, writing poetry and theatre under the name Dead Lads.

Lenni Sanders is a writer and performer. Outside of Stirred, she collaborates with Harry Jelley as iOrganic to create interactive small scale theatre. Recently she also completed a one week residency at the Royal Exchange, collaborating with writer and theatre maker James Varney and visual artist Isabel Scott. Her spoken word EP bout bloody time co-written with James Varney was released digitally earlier this year.