Emma Winter has a degree in American Literature and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and San Francisco State. Her short fiction has been published in journals such as Banshee, The Nottingham Review and Every Day, A Century, and her story ‘Grey, Orange on Maroon, No.8’ was shortlisted then highly commended for the… Read more »
Author type: Fiction
Maddy Accalia
Maddy Accalia (she/they) is an award-winning writer and producer from Brighton, working across theatre, fiction and poetry. Their plays have been performed at Vault Festival, Norwich Theatre and the Roundhouse, where they were a Resident Artist from 2021-3. As a poet, they have been published in Bath Magg and Ink Sweat and Tears, and were commissioned by University… Read more »
Mark Gyves
Mark Gyves has lived and worked in the UK and Ireland, and now resides in his hometown on the outskirts of Cork.
Anna Nicholas
Anna Nicholas is the most prolific British author and journalist writing about Mallorca today. She has lived in Soller in the northwest of the island for 23 years with her husband and son and an ever-growing menagerie. Following the publication of a successful Mallorca-based travel series with Summersdale (Hachette UK), she has ventured into crime… Read more »
Liz Allan
Liz Allan is an Australian writer and teacher living and working in the UK. Her short story, ‘Our Voices, Fierce’ was awarded the Rachel Funari Prize for fiction in 2018 and her stories have been shortlisted for the Alan Marshall Short Story Award and the Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize, and longlisted for the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize. Her manuscript ‘The Elementals’ was… Read more »
Richard Armitage
Richard Armitage is a multi-award winning stage and screen actor best known for his role in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Trilogy, Captain America, Alice through the Looking Glass, Into the Storm and Oceans 8. In 2022-25, he starred in four of Netflix’s Harlan Coben adaptations and also starred in Obsession for Netflix. For ITV he… Read more »
Zoe Venditozzi
Zoe Venditozzi is a novelist and writer living and working in Scotland. Zoe was born in Lancashire and grew up in a small village in North East Fife and studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Dundee. She won the Guardian’s “Not the Booker” prize in 2013 with her first novel Anywhere’s Better Than Here. She leads the Witches of Scotland campaign… Read more »
Yasmin Khan
Yasmin Khan is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford where she teaches Global and Imperial history. She was born in London, educated at Oxford, and has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and London. She is the author of The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Yale, 2007), The Raj… Read more »
C J Wray
Raised in the west of England, C J Wray studied psychology before embarking on a portfolio career that has seen her selling kitchens, editing erotica, working as an amanuensis to an armed robber (reformed), and pretending to be a princess.
Justin Cartwright (Estate Of)
Justin Cartwright’s novels include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet (Spectre, 1995), the Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers (Spectre, 1998), the acclaimed White Lightning (Spectre, 2002), shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award, The Promise of Happiness (Thomas Dune, 2005), selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club and winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize, The… Read more »