[3] The original team also included Mick Delap,[4] David Boll (chairman), Peter Ashton Jones and Martin Sonenberg (illustrations), and Ronald Frank (treasurer).

Some of the other poems included in the top 10 were Martin Newell's 'The Song of the Waterlily', Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', and 'Christmas At Sea' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

[12] After 2011, the competition has been judged by such poets as Caroline Bird,[13] Daljit Nagra[14] Marvin Thompson,[15] Victoria Kennefick,[16] and Andrew McMillan.

[22][23] Celebrating 25 years, the Open Pamphlet Competition was announced in 2018 by Lisa Kelly, Chair of Magma.

[32] Today, Magma receives well over "thousands of submissions" from the UK and abroad,[5] and a large number of poets and artists of related fields have so far worked towards editing its many issues.

Some of the more popular names include Clare Pollard, Roddy Lumsden, Helen Mort, Hannah Lowe, Ilya Kaminsky, Victoria Kennefick and Ian McEwan.

[40] Julia Bird, who edited two issues for the magazine, is one of the previous members on the board,[41] alongside Gboyega Odubanjo.

It now also includes, among others, Susannah Hart, Paul Stephenson, and Cheryl Moskowitz,[42] who also edited the "Anthropocene" issue with Yvonne Reddick and Maya Chowdhry.

As the reviews editor for the magazine, Aoife Lyall replaced Rob A. Mackenzie, who had been in the position for over ten years.