Ruthann Alexander is a journalist based in Philadelphia, United States of America. She freelances for hyperlocal neighborhood papers the Spirit of the Riverwards and the Spirit of Penn's Garden. Ruthann recently landed a freelancing gig for Philadelphia news blog, Billy Penn, writing a feature on Read moreJust Cause Eviction legislation in Philadelphia.

I started writing when I was 12. I still to this day write mostly every day, if not every week for personal reasons. I have several creative works in production and am slowly polishing them to release. 

Novelist, Poet, Short Stories

Hanna Aranovich is a journalist from Belarus. Currently based in Philadelphia, USA.

Sean Brennan is a journalist based in Philadelphia, United States of America.

Nazlı Cem is an artist who lives and works between Turkey and the US. She focuses on the mundane and the ordinary as the subjects of her work, which can take various forms including animation, illustration, comics and photography. Her practice relies on diving into her personal archives, daily Read morerecord-keeping, observation and repetition. 

Some of the shows she has recently participated in are 

Next Stop, Dupont Underground, Washington DC (2019); 
Panimation Collective Showcase, London Illustration Fair, London (2018) and Pocko Gallery, London (2018); 
DC Summer Loops, Dupont Underground, Washington DC (2018). 

Some of the film festivals her animated short film Suriphobia has traveled to are 

Night of the Short Film Antwerp, Belgium (2018); 
Short to the Point International Film Festival, Romania (2017); 
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, Chicago (2017).

Sequoyah Sudler is a Philadelphia-based journalist and founder of The Weekly Gazette, an explanatory news site. I regularly write and conduct interviews for in-depth reports on a wide array of subjects, such as the impact of Long COVID or the Israel-Hamas war protests at university campuses.