WLAG Founder, Kerry Ryan (she/they) has won the Spilling Ink short story prize, been shortlisted for the Myriad First Editions prize, the 2023 Writers & Artists Prize, the HG Wells Prize, and had writing published in The Manchester Review, The Kenyon Review, 3am Magazine among others. She is editor of ‘So Long as You Write‘ (Dear Damsels) 2022 and the Write like a Grrrl anthology (Grind and Bearing) 2022. Her poetry can be found in the Spectrum anthology by Renard Press, Unseen Workers- a collaborative project with the University of Oxford & the British Ecological Society, and published widely. In 2022, she received the Arts Council England DYCP award.  She has a Masters with distinction and a PhD in Literary Studies/Creative Writing.

Isha Karki is a writer and PhD student based in London. Her short fiction has won the Dinesh Allirajah Prize, Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize and Mslexia Short Story Competition. She has been shortlisted in competitions such as The White Review, Desperate Literature, and London Short Story Prize and her work has appeared in publications including Augur Magazine, Extra Teeth and Lightspeed. She is a 2019 graduate of Clarion West and currently a judge on the 2021/22 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. You can find her on Twitter: @IshaKarki11 

Sara Sherwood is a writer based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Sara’s short stories have been featured in Dear Damsels’ anthology Let Me Know When You’re Home: Stories of Female Friendship and Test Signal, an anthology of best new northern writing published by Dead Ink and Bloomsbury. Her short story Likes was also Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize in 2018. Sara has an MA in Creative Writing from the Manchester Writing School and loves creating supportive, caring and creative environments for writers of all abilities, backgrounds and ambitions to thrive.  You can follow Sara on Twitter and Instagram: @sarasherwood 

Kirsty Jones is a Bristol-based writer. Her work has been published with Grind&bearing Press, Nightingale & Sparrow, Dear Damsels and others. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and featured on BBC Radio Bristol, she has worked with Vanessa Kisuule to develop spoken word performances for world class venue, St George’s. Kirsty performed at Bristol’s Party on the Green in 2023 alongside City Poet, Kat Lyons, and is currently working on her first poetry collection. Her debut children’s picture book, No Matter the Distance, was released in 2021. You can find her on Instagram: @k_jones_writer







Kirsty Strang-Roy is a Glasgow-based writer and creative practitioner. Her work constellates the world through hands-on and inclusive writing and participatory arts workshops.  She's recently undertaken commissions for the Scottish Mental Health Foundation, Southside Wellbeing Festival, University of Strathclyde, Plenty? Festival and The Barn's Third Stage programme for over-55s. She also mentors emerging and under-represented writers for the Arkbound Foundation.  Kirsty is an experienced events producer and has worked with poets, authors and artists as well as organising large conferences and festivals. She is currently working on a hybrid prose-poetry novella as well as a literary memoir and a handbook for teaching poetry in outdoor settings.  She has a Masters in Children's and Creative writing from the University of Roehampton. She also holds an MPhil in literary and visual culture from the University of Glasgow. Her passion is helping people make space for their own creativity through nurturing environments where humans of all abilities and backgrounds can thrive. You can find her on Instagram @kirstystrangroycreates




Lucy Goodwill (she/her) is a writer, artist and educator based in Scotland. Lucy has a Master's in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh and her work has been featured by publications such as 404 Ink, Dear Damsels and Popshot Magazine. She finds joy and purpose in her own creative practice and is passionate about sharing the transformative power of creativity through teaching.

Write Like a Grrrl Russia works in partnership with the publishing house No Kidding Press. Hundreds of students have graduated from courses in Moscow, Kazan and St Petersburg and we are so proud of the brilliant, supportive work the Russian tutors and course conveners do. In addition to courses and events, WLAG Russia has published three collections of WLAG writing: “Without permission”, “A small book of stories about sexuality” and “Friendship”.  Check out WLAG Russia and all the fantastic work they do…