Louis Hill is a writer and actor. As an actor, his credits include a wide variety of stage, screen and voiceover work. As a writer, he has written a number of plays and short films including his one-man show, Love & Tigers, which opened to sell out audiences and 5 star reviews for a limited… Read more »
Author type: Children's and YA
Clara Kumagai
Clara Kumagai is from Canada, Japan and Ireland. Her fiction and non-fiction for children and adults has been published in The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, Banshee, Room, The Kyoto Journal and Cicada, among others. Her short story, ‘A Girl Named Indigo’, was translated and published in Japanese as a picture book with the title Indigo wo sagashite (Shogakukan, 2020). She was… Read more »
Matthew Burton
Matthew is an inspirational teacher and star of Channel 4’s multi award-winning documentary series, Educating Yorkshire. His warmth, humour, and energetic style of teaching have endeared him to audiences the country over, with incredible breakthrough moments that brought millions of TV and YouTube viewers to tears. Now a Head (and still an English teacher), he… Read more »
Stella Botchway
Dr Stella Botchway is a writer, academic and Consultant in Public Health Medicine. She studied medicine at the University of Oxford, where she is now a Clinical Researcher and NIHR Doctoral Fellow. Her academic research looks at the healthcare needs of adolescents at risk of self-harm. Stella has worked with a wide variety of national… Read more »
Chloe Daykin
Chloe won a ARHC studentship to study the MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University where she graduated with distinction, winning the universities taught masters prize and Northern Writers Award. Her debut novel Fish Boy was published by Faber & Faber in 2017 to critical acclaim; it was nominated for the Carnegie Medal, longlisted for… Read more »
Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley OBE’s Agatha Christie, A Very Elusive Woman (Hodder & Stoughton, 2022) was a Sunday Times number one best seller. It followed the best-selling Jane Austen at Home (2017) and Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow (2019) with the same publisher. Other non-fiction includes A Very British Murder (BBC Books) and with Faber &… Read more »
Eleanor Updale
Eleanor is the prizewinning author of several historical novels, the Montmorency series (Scholastic, 2003-2013), Johnny Swanson (David Fickling Books, 2010), as well as Saved (Barrington Stoke, 2008), The Last Minute (David Fickling, 2013), both of which are set in the present day, and numerous short stories. She won the 2004 Blue Peter Prize for “The… Read more »
Jonathan Weil
Andrew Prentice and Jonathan Weil are the authors of a rollicking adventure and time travel middle grade novel, Black Arts, featuring young Jack the Cutpurse and Beth Sharkwell, daughter of the master of thieves in 1590s London (David Fickling Books, 2012). The sequel, Devil’s Blood, was published in 2016. Both authors live in London.
Christopher Vick
Chris writes books for young people about the sea, danger and the wonder of magic and stories. He spent years working in whale conservation before enrolling on the Bath Spa MA in Writing for Young People. He has written five books, published in several countries. Kook, published by HarperCollins in 2016, was longlisted for the Branford… Read more »
Lisa Williamson
Lisa Williamson has always loved stories. A childhood spent reading, drawing, and making up tales in her head originally lead her down the path of acting. After gaining a Performing Arts Degree at Middlesex University, Lisa worked as an actor for over a decade, performing in a range of productions including a panto with Basil… Read more »