Rebecca "Bep" Summerscales is a writer who moved to the Nottingham area in 2018 to study at the University of Nottingham. They remain living and working in the city to this day. Bep is an active GOBS collective member, regularly representing them at showcases such as Bad Betty Live and Hockley Hustle. 

Bep's poetry has been published in the Writing Notts 2021 anthology, the Cosy magazine, the Chicago-Nottingham exchange anthology called 'Middle Ground', the Shards anthology, the Nottingham C.A.N 'I Come From' series, GOBS' Full Moon and Word Walk zines, and the 'Our Pride' anthology.

Rebecca won first place in the 2015 UniVerse prize, was long listed for the Plough Prize in 2021, won the Emily Dickenson Award in Poetry on 2022, and took home the crown at the GOBS Nottingham Poetry Festival Slam 2024. Bep will be representing Nottingham in the 2024 Slam-O-Vision Poetry Contest. 

As a Workshop Facilitator, Bep has led a poetry writing project called 'Break the Bias' for migrant women based at the National Justice Museum. They are also a regular co-host at Nottingham's longest running poetry night called Speech Therapy based at Bunker's Hill in Hockley on the first Friday of every month. Bep is also a talented and articulate reviewer for NetGalley, Penguin, Pan Macmillan, Bad Betty, and Picador. 

When not working, writing or performing, Bep is a reader, lover of cats, believer in the Oxford comma, and yellow enthusiast. You can find book reviews and reading inspiration on their Instagram at @beppoet.