Inky Fingers is organised by a small committee of volunteers.

The event series was set up in October 2010 by Harry Giles, a performance poet, theatre director, and freelance workshop facilitator from Orkney, Scotland, currently based in Edinburgh and London. Harry has performed at poetry nights and won slams across the UK, and his theatre projects have toured and featured at festivals at venues such as the Soho Theatre, London, the Byre Theatre, St Andrews, and Forest, Edinburgh. He also likes whiskey, dark chocolate, ukulele music, cyborgs and thinking about stuff in general.

Alec Beattie is an lifelong scribbler who has amassed a huge pile of mostly unfinished and unpublished novels, short stories and other bumff. To his credit he has had some boring academic stuff published and some drama scripts  rejected by Radio 4 and Channel 4. Having recently woken up to poetry he is a fledgling poet and performer wh’es current dream is to not get booted out in round one of a poetry slam. He likes films too and is a foreign language film fan. He currently edits Duality, ongoing editions of short stories and illustrations. He lives in Edinburgh, is technically unemployed and is losing weight due to poverty and malnutrition.

Rose Fraser is a well-travelled drama queen and adventurer. She has lived and worked in Venezuela, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, but Scotland’s heart was beating for her to return though. Always ready to take on new projects, she saw a class advertised for performance poetry and then she became addicted to the words of published and unpublished poets at the Is This Poetry? open mic. Rose fell in love with performance poetry.  She has run Shindigs events in the past with her partner Blair, looks after her younger children. She likes wine, chocolate, dance and song.

Rachel McCrum used to write stories, poems, and the occasional piece of toilet graffiti. Then she discovered Manchester and it all stopped for a while. On moving to Edinburgh last year to start her PhD, she found that the extreme amounts of academic jargon she was digesting could only be made sensible if she took up writing stories again about all the stuff that made her happy, sad, thrilled, disgusted, amazed, frightened and angry. So that’s what she’s trying to do. She also likes sailing, making films, smoking rollups, eating chocolate and piccalilli (not at the same time), and talking to people who are passionate and committed about what they do. And throwing parties. She really likes doing that.

Katherine McMahon is an Edinburgh-based poet, who has performed on stages across the city, as well as further afield. Her love of words goes back even further than the time she won a Blue Peter badge for a poem (aged 9); her love of performance is born of a whole lot of theatre combined with years of impassioned political speeches. She helped to run successful theatre company Theatre Paradok for two years, and continues to work with them as a designer. She has a degree in Social Anthropology, and also likes baking elaborate desserts, swimming in unlikely places, and growing things.