Laila Sumpton is one of our 2021 Guest Editors, and, with Sandra A Agard, edited our anthology, Where We Find Ourselves (Oct 2021)

Laila is an Associate Writer at Spread the Word and runs poetry projects in hospitals, schools, parks, museums and libraries. She performs her work regularly and is working on her first collection, Stampless, which we will be publishing in June 2022.

We have published and performed her work previously in several Solstice Shorts Festival events and anthologies: Dusk,  Noon and  Tymes goe by Turnes