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Michaela Morgan is a children’s author and poet. She has a large body of work which includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry,…

Lee Weatherly is an author of children’s and young adult fiction. Her first book, Child X (David Fickling Books, 2002),…

Meaghan Delahunt is a novelist and short story writer. Her work has been widely translated and her stories anthologised and…

Doug Johnstone has worked as a freelance arts journalist since 1999, primarily covering music and literature, and he is currently…

Now living on the east coast of Scotland, Chris Arthur was born in Belfast and grew up in Northern Ireland…

Ruth Thomas is an acclaimed novelist and short-story writer. Her first collection Sea Monster Tattoo was shortlisted for the John…

Jane Feaver is a novelist and short-story write. Her first novel According to Ruth (Harvill Secker, 2007) was shortlisted for…

Bashabi Fraser is a poet, children’s writer and critic academic. Her publications include Rabindranath Tagore (2019), The Homing Bird (2017), and Letters to my Mother…

Swiss-born, Scotland-based Regi Claire started off as a fiction writer before becoming a poet. Her second novel, The Waiting (Word…

Valerie Gillies is a poet and non-fiction writer, whose books include Tweed Journey and The Lightning Tree. As a young…

Laura Hird is the award-winning author of the collections Nail and Other Stories (Canongate, 1997) and Hope and Other Urban Tales (Canongate,…

Lucy Ellmann is an American novelist who has spent most of her life in Britain. Her first book Sweet Desserts…

Tessa Ransford was an established poet, translator, literary editor, reviewer and cultural activist on many fronts for over 40 years,…