Natalie Nera
Co-Founder | Prose Editor | Director
is a pen name of Natalie Dunn. She is a Czech writer: author of two published novels, and editor of a poetry anthology in her mother tongue. She spent fifteen years in the UK with her British husband and children but has recently relocated to Prague. She writes in Czech, English, and occasionally translates.
Her writing has appeared in Czech, Russian, German, English, Bengali, Spanish and Romanian. Her work has been published in Mslexia, Eunoia Review, The Selkie, Litero Mania and Tvar. In 2020, she was Highly Commended for The International Proverse Poetry Prize in Hong Kong. In January 2021, she became a member of International Pen Club in Prague. Her collection Návrat ztracené dcery (2021: Dauphin, Prague) received positive reviews and was commended as one of the most interesting poetry collections at the annual literary award in the Czech Republic, Mobelova Cena 2022.
Natalie Crick
Co-Founder | Poetry Editor | Director
Natalie Crick, from Newcastle in the UK, has poems published in The Poetry Review, The Rialto, The Moth, Banshee, The Dark Horse, Agenda, Mslexia, SAND, New Welsh Review, and elsewhere. She has an MPhil in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Her thesis, A Pathway to Murder, explores a poetry of violence in the work of Pascale Petit and Simon Armitage, alongside a sequence of her own poetry. She is a former creative-practitioner-in-residence at the Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research at Newcastle University.
One of Natalie’s poems was commended in the Verve Poetry Festival Competition 2020 on the theme of diversity and was awarded second prize in the Newcastle Poetry Competition 2020. Natalie’s poetry has been highly commended in the Folklore Poetry Prize, highly commended in the Wales Poetry Award and she received a nomination for The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.
Natalie is Poetry Editor at Fragmented Voices.
