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Sally O’Reilly is a novelist specialising in historical fiction with a particular interest in marginalised voices. Her first two novels…

Wren James is the Carnegie-longlisted British author of many Young Adult novels as ‘Lauren James’, including Last Seen Online, Green…

Helen Kelly has written theatre for casts of one and casts of sixty, including a number of pieces for the…

Martin Sketchley has over 25 years’ experience across B2B writing, analysis and non-fiction, writing and editing text destined for blue-chip…

Mahendra Solanki is a poet and editor, described by David Dabydeen as ‘a genuinely gifted writer’. Since his first collection,…

Cliff Yates is a poet. His various collections include Henry’s Clock (smith/doorstop, 1999) which won both the Aldeburgh first collection…

Meg Sanders is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her eight novels (co-written with Annie Ashworth as Annie Sanders)…

Jane Draycott is a poet whose collections from Carcanet Press include The Occupant, Over (nominated for the 2009 T.S. Eliot…

Following a dismal school ‘career’, David eventually read English at Cardiff in the 1970s and then taught in a Shropshire…

William Palmer is a novelist, short-story writer and poet. His first novel The Good Republic (Secker and Warburg, 1990) deals…