THE LAUNDRY
Edited by Alison Clara Tan
and AV Bridgwood
A new poetry mag coming soon
EDITORS
ALISON CLARA TAN
Alison Clara Tan is a Southeast Asian writer based in London. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in fourteen poems, wildness, The Kenyon Review, Gutter Magazine and Washington Square Review, among others. She is a 2025/26 Barbican Young Poet, a 2025 Brooklyn Poets Fellow, a member of the London Writer's Centre's inaugural Poetics Lab cohort, and has been a resident artist at the Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking.
AV Bridgwood
AV’s debut pamphlet Snack is published by ignitionpress; the title poem was highly commended in the 2025 Forward Prizes. Their work has been published in journals such as Oxford Poetry, fourteen poems, The Rialto, and Magma. They won the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize and were commended in the National Poetry Competition 2023. AV is a former Foyle Young Poet and graduated with distinction from UEA's MA in Creative Writing.