Oakley Flanagan is a writer and poet. As a playwright: ‘This Queer House’, VAULT Festival. Their poetry appears in bath magg, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, The North, Under the Radar and Wasafiri. Oakley is an alum of Roundhouse Poetry Collective, The London Library Emerging Writer Programme, The Genesis Jewish Book Week Emerging Writers' Programme and the Southbank Centre’s New Poets Collective. They are a winner of the ruth weiss Emerging Poet Award and their long poem, 'G&T', published by Out-Spoken Press, was shortlisted for the Pat Kavanagh Prize.