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Jamie Lee Searle is a literary translator, writer and mentor. She translates German-language and Portuguese-language writing into English for publishing…

Spenser Frearson has been writing drama and screenplays since he was very young. Over the last thirty years he has…

Andrea Bennett is a novelist who also writes short stories, short plays, flash fiction and nonfiction. Her first novel, Galina…

Stephanie Norgate is a playwright and poet. Her first play, The Greatest Gift, broadcast on BBC R4, won a Radio…

Imogen Lycett Green, an author and journalist, was brought up in Wiltshire and studied ancient history and archaeology at Birmingham…

James McConnachie is a writer of non-fiction with a particular interest in the ancient, exotic and offbeat. He has also…

Morag Joss began writing in 1996 when her first short story won an award in a national competition. Starting to…

Mick Jackson writes fiction and screenplays. His first novel The Underground Man (Faber, 1997) was shortlisted for the Booker prize…

Robyn Bolam is a prize-winning poet and a librettist. Her poetry collections, published by Bloodaxe, are The Peepshow Girl (1989),…

An award-winning non-fiction writer and editor, Cath is also a university and ESOL teacher. Originally a project manager and editor…

In 2005 Deborah Gearing’s first play Burn was commissioned by the National Theatre and was runner-up for the Brian Way…

Nick Stafford was born in 1959 in Staffordshire. He has been a freelance creative writer for over 15 years, mainly…

Peter Guttridge is a novelist, journalist and writing tutor. His six comic novels are deemed ‘essential reading’ by the Times.…

Jonathan Buckley is a novelist and guidebook writer. He was born in Birmingham, grew up in Dudley, and studied English…