Writers

Helen Mort

Yorkshire-born, Derbyshire-bred poet, runner and amateur rock climber

Caleb Femi

Poet. English Teacher. Photographer. Filmaker.

Sarah Moss

Reading, writing, talking, running, cooking: I miss hills and sea

Kit de Waal

I'm a writer, reader, giggler and baker of mixed heritage

Patrick McGuinness

Interested in what things look like when we're not looking

Ross Sutherland

Exploring new forms across poetry, theatre, film and radio

Christie Watson

Bookish, political, average dancer. Teach, write, drink too much coffee.

Karen McCarthy Woolf

Poet, editor, critic, urban nature, collaboration and translation, diversity advocate

Sophia Walker

Award-winning poet, playwright and teacher. UN and TEDx commissions

Isabel Greenberg

Illustrator, writer, comics, graphic novels

Malika Booker

Poet, Playwright, Lecturer, Creative Writing tutor/ Mentor, Engaging reader, Charismatic

Emma Jane Unsworth

Novelist and screenwriter. Northerner. Romantic. Likes wine. GSOH

Stephen Kelman

In the words of the underdog I find my voice

Hollie McNish

I like writing poetry a lot. And I like being alive

Una

Not funny

Melissa Lee-Houghton

Fierce, Intelligent, Intense, Compassionate, Complex, Diligent, Expressive, Vibrant, Honest, Connected

Andrew Michael Hurley

In love with the landscapes of the North

Hannah Berry

Mover. Shaker. Comic book maker

Horatio Clare

Father, author, teacher, travel writer, university lecturer, walker, farmer 

Kerry Hudson

Scottish, queer, working class novelist. Loves to perform, travel, teach

Thomas Morris

Short story writer; Wales Book of the Year; editor

Harry Josephine Giles

Multiplatform poet and performer, making strange, delightful and political interventions

Catherine O'Flynn

Novelist, former child detective, specialises in failed utopias, obsolete confectionery

Miriam Gamble

Northern Irish poet; miniaturist; likes to see things skew

Tiffany Murray

Borderland writer. Welsh and Scottish. Travel to write. Rocknroll.

Kayo Chingonyi

Lyric poet with a passion for music

Sarah Perry

Novelist; academic (the Gothic, creative writing); critic (The Guardian, Financial Times); essays (BBC, Guardian, Slightly Foxed)

Louise Welsh

genre crossing, novelist, librettist, enquiring, political, feminist, sociable-loner, bookworm  

Naomi Wood

Writer and teacher of novels and films

Jo Mazelis

Art school dropout, writer, photographer and lover of Welsh mountains

Rhian Edwards

Welsh poet & single mum, twitcher & horror film nut