
- Please send 1-3 poems (in a single PDF or Word doc) to submissions.badbettypress@gmail.com
- Please use 2021 Anthology as your email subject
- We’re looking for work that has not been previously published (in a book, magazine or on social media – screenshare during online events is fine)
- There’s no line limit or requirements for font or contact details
- Submissions are welcome from anywhere in the world
- The deadline is Midnight, 30th April — poems sent after this won’t be read

Vanessa Kisuule is a writer and performer based in Bristol. She has won over ten slam titles including The Roundhouse Slam 2014, Hammer and Tongue National Slam 2014 and the Nuoryican Poetry Slam. She has been featured on BBC iPlayer, Radio 1, and Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Blue Peter, Don’t Flop and TEDx in Vienna. She has appeared at an array of festivals and was Glastonbury Festival’s Resident Poet in 2019. She has been invited to perform all over the world, from Belgium to Brazil to Bangladesh. Her poem on the historic toppling of Edward Colston’s statue ‘Hollow’ gained over 600,000 views on Twitter in three days. She has two poetry collections published by Burning Eye Books and her work was Highly Commended in the Forward Poetry Prize Anthology 2019. She has written for publications including The Guardian, NME and Lonely Planet and toured her one woman theatre show ‘SEXY’ in 2017. She was the Bristol City Poet for 2018 – 2020 and is currently working on an essay collection and her debut novel.

Anja grew up in the German language and now writes in English. Her first full collection, Animal Experiments, was published by Bad Betty Press in 2020, and was selected by The Telegraph as their poetry book of the month. Her first pamphlet Advice for an Only Child, from flipped eye, was shortlisted for the 2015 Michael Marks prize. She is looking forward to meeting the baddest betties in your submissions.
