On Tour with Bad Betty Press

Keith Jarrett is an international slam champion and was selected for the International Literary Showcase as an outstanding LGBT writer. He has appeared in Benjamin Zephaniah’s BAFTA-winning show Life & Rhymes and in documentaries on Black and queer history. His collection, Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied is a PBS Spring recommendation.

Perla Kantarjian is a Lebanese-Armenian writer born and raised in Lebanon. Her work appears in Electric Literature, Black Warrior Review, The Rumpus, Wasafiri, Poetry Wales, Magma, Oxford University’s TORCH anthology, and elsewhere. Her poem was selected for the Lunar Codex project and is archived on the Moon.

Anja König grew up in the German language and now writes in English. Her first collection Animal Experiments was nominated for the Laurel Prize. She is excited to launch her second collection Noise in 2027 with Bad Betty Press.

Jake Wild Hall is an award winning poet and one half of Bad Betty Press. He is the author of two pamphlets Solomon’s World, which was longlisted for the Saboteur award for best pamphlet, and Blank. His debut collection Alanis Morissette was published by Broken Sleep Books in January 2026.

William Wyld is a poet, visual artist and carpenter from London. They were highly commended in the Forward Prize for Best Poem: Performed, the Creative Futures Awards and the Bridport Prize and placed third in The Moth Nature Writing Prize. The Butterfly Bush is their first book.