University of the West of England, Arts and Cultural Industries

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

Robin Etherington is a writer of children’s fiction and all-ages graphic novels, as well as numerous comic strips for print…

Juliet Clare Bell (always known as Clare) is a children’s author. Her focus is on telling engaging stories (mostly for…

Laura Beatty is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Her first book was a biography of Lillie Langtry. Her…

Maria McCann is primarily a historical novelist whose novels explore power struggles, denial, obsession and self-deception; she is particularly interested…

Harriet Castor is a writer who specialises in books for children and young people. Her first book Fat Puss and…

Julian Evans grew up on Australia’s east coast and in the south London suburbs in the 1960s. He is the…

Christopher Wakling’s seven acclaimed novels include Escape and Evasion (Faber), a tragicomedy about a rogue banker’s Copernican change of heart; What…