William Keohane is a writer from Limerick. His essays have been published in British GQ, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, and The Tangerine. In 2021, he was longlisted for Canongate’s Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing and was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series. William is the current writer-in-residence at Ormston House.
Nina Bhadreshwar trained and worked as a journalist in South Yorkshire before relocating to Watts, Los Angeles in the 1990s with her own magazine. While there, she was recruited to be the press officer and biographer of Death Row Records. She’s worked in woodland management, music journalism and as a high school teacher in England, Scotland and California as well as mentoring foster youth in LA. She paints murals, hikes, and self-publishes poetry and non-fiction.
Nina won the 2022 Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award with her debut novel, The Day of the Roaring (Hemlock Press, 2025).
Imogen Willetts is a Creative Producer and University Lecturer.
She worked at the Royal Academy of Arts in London for eight years, where she led its cultural programmes of live events and festivals. This included leading the sell-out RA Lates series, after-hours gallery events that reimagined the nightlife behind iconic artistic movements, as well as an annual summer party that took inspiration from Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.
Imogen has an academic background in cultural and urban history. She lectures at Kingston University’s School of Art and guest lectures at Central Saint Martins.
Her first book, Up All Night: A World History of Nightlife, will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK in 2025/6.
Oliver Milman is a British journalist and the environment correspondent at the Guardian. He lives in New York City.
His first book, The Insect Crisis, is a devastating account of how a silent collapse in worldwide insect populations is threatening everything from the birds in our skies to the food on our plates. It was published by Atlantic in 2022 and shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing.
Grace is represented by Sally in the UK on behalf of Zoë Pagnamenta at The Zoë Pagnamenta Agency.
Larisa Brown has worked as a journalist for more than a decade, covering the Middle East region and wider issues on defence, security, diplomacy and politics. She is currently Defence Editor at The Times and also covers security and diplomacy for the Sunday Times. Her work has taken her to multiple conflict zones, including Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and Libya and she was posted to Beirut, Lebanon for a short period in 2018. Larisa is a British Journalism Awards Campaign of the Year winner for her work highlighting the plight of Afghan interpreters.
Her first book, The Gardener of Lashkar Gah, was published by Bloomsbury in September 2023. By telling one family’s bittersweet experience, this book provides a unique and powerful insight into the devastating effects of the end of the disastrous ‘War on Terror’.
Lucy Wooding is the Langford Fellow and Tutor in History at Lincoln College, Oxford. She taught at Queen’s University Belfast and King’s College London before coming to Oxford. Her research specialisms lie in the field of early modern British history, and she is particularly interested in the many different manifestations of religious culture in early modern England, from popular devotional traditions to the role of religion in political culture.
She is the author of Henry VIII (Routledge, 2009) and most recently Tudor England: A History (Yale, 2022). She is currently researching the relationship between liturgy and royal ritual in the Tudor period.’
Alan Murrin is an Irish writer based in Berlin. His debut novel, published in 2024, was shortlisted for the Peters Fraser Dunlop Queer Fiction Prize and was long-listed for the Caledonia New Novel Award 2022. In 2021 he was the winner of the Bournemouth Writing Prize for his short story The Wake, which went on to be shortlisted for short story of the year at the Irish Book Awards.
Alan is the recipient of an Irish Arts Council Agility Award and an Arts Council Literature Bursary. He is a graduate of the prose fiction masters at the University of East Anglia. His work was featured as part of the New Irish Writing series in the Irish Independent. He writes for The Irish Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator. His writing on art and photography has appeared in Art Review and The White Review.
Alan’s debut novel, The Coast Road, sold to Bloomsbury at auction, with further deals struck in the US (HarperVia at auction), Germany (pre-empted by DTV), and Italy (pre-empted by Mondadori). It was published in the UK in May 2024.
Set in County Donegal in 1994, the year before divorce became legal in Ireland, The Coast Road is a brilliantly observed debut novel about a closed community and the consequences of daring to move against the tide. Colette Crowley, the bohemian writer who left her husband and sons, enlists the help of a housewife named Izzy in attempt to reconcile with her children, and the two women forge a friendship that will send them on a spiralling journey – one toward a path of self-discovery, and the other toward tragedy.
You can watch Alan’s conversation with Colm Tóibín, talking all about the book, here.
Kathryn Hurlock is Head of the History Research Centre, and Reader in Medieval History at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is a religious historian working on the ways in which people have engaged in major religious activities like pilgrimage and crusading from the middle ages to the present day.
She is the author of Wales and the Crusades, c.1095-1291 (University of Wales Press, 2011), Britain, Ireland, and the Crusades, 1000-1300 (Palgrave, 2013), and Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100-1500 (Palgrave, 2018), as well as several edited collections, book chapters, and journal articles. Kathryn has contributed to television and radio as an expert commentator on pilgrimage, crusading, and medieval history.
Her first trade book, Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World, will be published in 2025 by Profile Books.
Photo courtesy of Andrew Abram
Kieran Yates is a London-based journalist, broadcaster and editor who has been writing about culture, technology and politics for over 10 years. She’s written everywhere from the Guardian, FADER, VICE, The Independent and beyond, had an acclaimed monthly column at VICE titled ‘British Values’, was nominated for Culture Writer of the Year in 2016 and regularly hosts events and panels discussing issues across music, politics, and news.
Kieran contributed to the award-winning book of essays, The Good Immigrant in 2017 about immigrant stories in the UK, where she wrote about ‘Going Home’. In 2015 she started a fanzine called ‘British Values’, a political satire and culture magazine that celebrates immigrant communities in the UK. She is the co-author of Generation Vexed: What the English Riots Didn’t Tell Us About Your Nation’s Youth published by Random House in 2011, and was part of the Guardian’s ‘My Favourite Album’ eBook in 2011.
Kieran’s debut book about home and the housing crisis titled All The Houses I’ve Lived In was published in May 2023 by Simon & Schuster.
Clive Webb is Professor of Modern American History at the University of Sussex. He is the recipient of a Leverhulme Fellowship, studying acts of violence against foreign nationals in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His research has been featured in articles written for the Guardian, Independent and The New York Times. His first trade book, Vietdamned: The True Story of How the World’s Great Thinkers Put the US Government on Trial for War Crimes, will be published by Profile Books in 2024.
