Osmosis Press was established in early 2021 with an aim to muddy the boundaries between categorisations of contemporary writing practice. We publish work that resists traditional classification, with a particular commitment to linguistically and formally innovative poetic writing, alongside experimental play with the short story sequence or essay. Osmosis is run in an entirely voluntary capacity, and embraces the community politics of radical small press publishing.
Editor in Chief: Briony Hughes (2021 – onwards)
Dr Briony Hellon-Hughes is a poet, researcher, and lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she leads the Poetry Pathway for the MA in Creative Writing. She has published six books of poetry including ‘Speculative Frequencies’ (Permeable Barrier, 2025), ‘June: A Haunting’ (Intergraphia, 2024) and ‘Rhizomes’ (Broken Sleep Books, 2023). Her monograph, ‘Hydropoetics: Methodology, Material, and Practice for Ecofeminist Poetry’ is forthcoming from Bloomsbury, whilst her next collection, ‘Sea Grammar’, is forthcoming from Veer Books. Her poetic artists’ books have been collected by various institutions including the National Poetry Library, The British Library, Senate House Library, Oxford’s Bodleian Library, and Kings College London Special Collections. She co-edits Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine’s Poetry Feature and is Editor in Chief at Osmosis Press. She is currently investigating the impact of poetry in conservation practice through collaborations with the Bat Conservation Trust, Royal Parks, Richmond Arts Service, BBO Wildlife Trust, and Cambridge Botanic Garden, alongside Royal Holloway’s Centre for Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour.
Digital Editor: Dr Cat Chong (2023 – onwards)
Cat Chong (they/them) is a poet, publisher, PhD student at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and visiting PhD fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. They’re a graduate of the Poetic Practice MA at Royal Holloway and co-founder of the Crested Tit Collective. Their work has been published internationally by presses such as Bad Betty, Flint Books, Ache Magazine, Permeable Barrier, Stride, Coven, Vessel, Singapore Unbound, dis/content, Experiment-O, The Babel Tower Notice Board, Osmosis Press, Ethos Books, and Broken Sleep Books. Their debut collection 712 stanza homes for the sun is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in 2023 as well as the serial poem Dear Lettera 32, which is forthcoming from Permeable Barrier in the spring of 2024.
Alice Margaret Heart (2026 – onwards)
Alice Margaret Heart (she/her) is a writer, poet and artist from London. She is a MA Poetic Practice graduate from Royal Holloway, University of London, with a BA in Creative Writing – Poetry. Her specialities include mixed media convergences with textual matter, engaging in experimental poetics and translations of language through visual and tactile art. Her creative work spans archival practices, collage, print making, zines and textiles. Her artist’s books are collected by the National Poetry Library, Arts University Bournemouth, the Bodleian Library and multiple private collections. She is currently working on alternative memoir and explorations of anticipatory grief, existentialism and salvage.
Francis de Lima (2026 – onwards)
Francis de Lima is a Finnish-Brazilian poet living in London, where they recently completed their MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway. Many of their poems can be found in online literature magazines, and some have even been shortlisted for an award or two. They also work as a translator, as well as in various roles within independent theatre, film, and art projects, both in the UK and abroad.
Winter Chen (2026 – onwards)
Winter is a poet, performer and model. She just started her practice-based PhD in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, with her research interests including transpoetics, performance poetics, archives and ephemera.
Former Osmosis Editorial Team
Print Editor: Dr Saskia McCracken (2021 – 2025)
Saskia McCracken (she/her) is a writer and editor based in Glasgow. She is a member of the 12 collective and the Victoria Writers’ Circle. Her publications include Imperative Utopia (-algia press 2021) and Zero Hours (Broken Sleep Books 2022). In 2021, she won the Floresta poetry prize and was longlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction prize. Her work appears in publications including Magma, Datableed, Amberflora, and Zarf, and has been anthologised by Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Essence Press, and Spam Press. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Glasgow on Virginia Woolf’s Darwinian animal tropes. @SaskiadeRM and https://saskiamccracken.wordpress.com/
Reviews Editor: Jayd Green (2021 – 2024)
Jayd Green (she/her) is a writer and researcher from Suffolk. Her poem ‘Dunwich Woods’ won the Student New Angle Prize in 2018, and her poetry has been published in Anthropocene Poetry Journal and Foliate Oak as well as performed at various festivals in Suffolk and Norfolk. She holds a BA Hons in English from the University of Suffolk, and an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of East Anglia. She is currently undertaking her PhD which explores the pastoral, nature writing, and rewilding.
Communications Coordinator: Scott Lilley (2023 – 2025)
Scott (he/his) is a poet based near Newcastle and recently completed an MSt in Creative Writing. His work can be found in Butcher’s Dog, Wet Grain, and Trickhouse Press’s Virtual Oasis anthology, he has performed in collaboration as part of the European Poetry Festival, and in Berlin through Circle and Arc. He enjoys sonnets and, occasionally, chess.
Advisor: Dr Isabella Streffen (2021 – 2024)
Isabella (she/her) is an artist working on experimental criticism, perception and the slippery territories of desire. In pursuit of these interests she has illuminated Hadrian’s Wall from end-to-end, staged a dogfight with prototype drones Hawk & Dove in the Library of Congress, camouflaged tourists in Monet’s Garden, chased vampires in the Palais Garnier, followed Sophie Calle to Venice in a blonde wig, looked at the world through the lens of a cow, performed in cabaret en unicorne, transformed apples into gold, taxonomized her desires and conducted a love affair with a bot. She received her PhD from Newcastle University in 2012, and currently convenes the MA Fine Art at De Montfort University. Fabulae: How It Begins, her lyric research on mythography, will be published in 2022. She was previously Contributing Editor for Non-fiction at 3am, and co-editor of The And Or Project from 2014-19.
Advisor: Dr Agata Maslowska (2021 – 2024)
Agata Maslowska (she/her) is a writer and a translator. She was born in Poland and lives in Scotland. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Edinburgh Review, New Writing Scotland, Gutter Magazine, amberflora, Blackbox Manifold, Interpreter’s House, -algia, among others, and been anthologized in Glasgow (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, forthcoming). She is the recipient of the Hawthornden Writing Fellowship and the Gillian Purvis Award for New Writing. She holds a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. You can find her at @AgataMaslowska on Twitter. More info on https://agatamaslowska.co.uk/.
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