City & Guilds of London School of Art

Bara Norden is a writer of plays, many of which tend towards the comic and fantastical. Her first commissioned play,…

Simon Robson trained as an actor and wrote initially for the theatre. His first play The Ghost Train Tattoo was…

Kathryn Maris is a poet who, in 2019, won the Ivan Juritz prize for creative experiment for a portion of…

Sally Kindberg is an author, illustrator and comic strip maker who has written and illustrated more than thirty children’s nonfiction…

Londoner John Farndon is a writer of non-fiction books, and a playwright, lyricist, composer and literary translator. Spurred by intense…

Gabriel Gbadamosi is a poet, playwright and essayist. His London novel Vauxhall won the 2011 Tibor Jones pageturner prize and…

The son of Hungarian refugees, Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport in 1959. His first novel, Under the Frog, was…

Annette Kobak is a writer and occasional broadcaster whose most recent book Joe’s War: my father decoded was read as…

Neil Rollinson is a prize-winning poet and story writer. He is the recipient of a Cholmondeley award for poetry and…

Mario Petrucci is a poet and educator of international standing, and a leading exponent for site-specific and public poetry in…

Brian Keaney is an award-winning children’s author. He has written 20 novels for young people, which have been translated into…

Hugh Stoddart has had a long career as a screenwriter. His first feature-length original screenplay Remembrance was shortlisted for an Evening…

Michael Abbensetts began his writing career with short stories, but decided to turn to playwriting after seeing a performance of…