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Phoebe Power is a poet from Cumbria. She is the author of Shrines of Upper Austria (Carcanet, 2018), which received…

Penny Boxall is an award-winning poet whose work draws on her career in museums. Her first collection, Ship of the…

Cliff Forshaw is a poet and painter whose work engages with themes of place, nature, history and myth, and often…

Mark Illis writes novels for adults and teenagers, and has written extensively for television. His new novel for teens, Running…

Mary Colson is a teacher and writer specialising in non-fiction. She has written over 50 non-fiction books for children on…

Paul Mills has published six poetry collections, the latest Nomad from Smokestack Books (2021). He is the author of two…

Tom Bryan was born in Winnipeg, Canada of Irish descent but has lived in Scotland for many years. He is…

Paul Sayer is a former psychiatric nurse whose first novel The Comforts of Madness was published in 1988, winning the…

Fiona Shaw fell into writing by way of a crisis. Finding her life hijacked by a severe post-natal breakdown after…

Jonathan Tulloch is a prizewinning novelist and naturalist. He writes the Natures Notes for the Times and has published ten…

Gillian Allnutt has published eight collection of poetry, six of them with Bloodaxe. How the Bicycle Shone: new & selected…