Writers

Laura Dockrill

baby. granny. annoying. optimistic. potato-eating. writing. drawing. talking. colourful.

Caleb Femi

Poet. English Teacher. Photographer. Filmaker.

Isabel Greenberg

Illustrator, writer, comics, graphic novels

Nikesh Shukla

Author, novelist, diversity champion, filmmaker, average rapper

Andrew Michael Hurley

In love with the landscapes of the North

James Robertson

Scottish novelist, poet: intrigued by time, change, identity, locality, power

Paul McVeigh

Northern Irish writer of plays, comedy, short stories and novel

Ned Beauman

Author of three novels, Granta Best Young British Novelists 2013

Joanna Walsh

Fictionist, autofictionist, essayist, journalist, experimentalist

Andrew McMillan

Young poet exploring masculinity and the body

Patrick McGuinness

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

Christie Watson

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

Janice Galloway

Work alone and/or collaborate (painters, sculptors, libretti - all comers)

Sophia Walker

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

Melissa Lee-Houghton

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

Horatio Clare

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

Sarah Perry

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

Jenn Ashworth

Northern, working class writer curious about domestic, strange happenings in uncanny landscapes

Naomi Wood

Writer and teacher of novels and films

Emma Jane Unsworth

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

Kayo Chingonyi

Lyric poet with a passion for music

Kerry Hudson

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

Karrie Fransman

Comic creator/graphic novelist who loves experimenting with visual storytelling 

Lucy Caldwell

Novelist, playwright, radio dramatist and most recently short story writer

Bernardine Evaristo

Afro-British adventurer who brings unique characters and stories to life

Richard Beard

Curious, experimental, mashed-up

Malika Booker

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

Tiffany Murray

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