Barbara Bridger writes for performance and the page. Her scripts have been produced nationally and internationally and her prose, poetry, critical and academic writing has been published in a wide range of journals. Recently highly commended in the 2023 King Lear Prizes, shortlisted for the 2024 Oxford Flash Fiction Prize and a finalist in the 2024 London Independent Story Prize, she is published in the latest 2025 editions of Stand and Feminist Review and her monologue ‘Witnessing’ was performed at the Bread and Roses in London at the 2025 Raise the Vibration event. Learn more about Bridger here
Johanna Drucker is Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, contemporary art, and digital humanities. Her recent book publications include Visualization and Interpretation (MIT Press, 2020), Iliazd: Meta-biography of a Modernist (Hopkins, 2022), and Inventing the Alphabet (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Her artist’s books are represented in museum and library special collections throughout North America and Europe. Learn more about Drucker here, here and here.
Luise Mörke is a writer who lives in Berlin and Cambridge, MA. She is a PhD student at Harvard and the author of softshell, a newsletter about contemporary art.
DC Restaino is a writer and editor living in London. His writing has appeared online and in print at Funicular Magazine, Horizon Magazine, Outcrop Poetry, Thread Magazine, Mulberry Lit, and elsewhere. He was a quarter-finalist in Driftwood Press’s annual short story contest, runner-up in the 2022 Dillydoun Review flash fiction contest, and a 2024/2025 emerging writing fellow at the London Library. He is a PhD candidate with funding from LAHP at KCL. Follow Restaino on Instagram:@dcrestaino.
Natalie Wong is a versatile bilingual writer and freelance culture writer for the Paris-based hube magazine. Wong's interests span literature, film and theatre, and she is an avid fan of rock music. Her debut collection of short stories, sponsored by The University of Hong Kong and YMCA Hong Kong, was nominated for the 13th Hong Kong Book Prize in 2020. She holds an MA in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) from the University of East Anglia, where she was mentored by award-winning British playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker.
She has over two years’ experience working full-time in the UK TV industry, gaining expertise in marketing and attending major events such as the London Screenings, MIPCOM in Cannes and The London Film Festival.
Wong has recently been awarded development funding by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council for a new screenwriting project commencing in 2026. She also worked on a student film production supported by the University of Cambridge’s Judith E. Wilson Fund earlier this year. Follow Wong on Instagram:@hazymistymaybe
