Moon celebration weekend

Dom Conlon is an award-winning poet and author whose work often examines themes of family, disability, hope, and loss through a lens of space and nature. His books have multiple nominations for the Carnegie and the Greenaway medals, and include the non-fiction Meet Matilda series, and poetry such as This Rock That Rock, Out There in the Wild, and the Wild Wanderers picture book series. His work has been praised by Chris Riddell, Brian Bilston, Nicola Davies, Robin Ince and the European Space Agency. Dom is a UNESCO World Poetry Day poet, and he’s written for Macmillan Children's Books, Ladybird, Puffin, and the BBC. 

Described by The Guardian as ‘a poet to watch, her work an April rainbow of freshness and surprise,’ Kate Wakeling writes for both adults and children. A pamphlet of Kate’s poetry for adults, The Rainbow Faults, is published by The Rialto and her work has featured on BBC Radio 3 and been highly commended in the Forward Prizes. 

Kate has published three collections of poetry for children – Moon Juice and Cloud Soup with The Emma Press, and A Dinosaur at the Bus Stop (for younger readers) with Otter-Barry Books. Her poetry for children has been awarded the CLiPPA prize, The Week Junior ‘Book of the Year’ award for poetry and been nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Kate is writer-in-residence with Aurora Orchestra and writes for BBC Music Magazine. 

A.F. Harrold is a poet and performer who has written for both adults and children. His children’s novels are published by Bloomsbury and include The Imaginary which is now a Japanese animated movie on Netflix. His poetry collections and anthologies include the Pocket Book of Pocket Poems, the Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice and Midnight Feasts. He was once Glastonbury Festival’s Poet-in-Residence, but mostly isn’t. He can be found at www.afharroldkids.com.