Writers

James Robertson

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

Helen Mort

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

Carys Davies

Award-winning, widely anthologised short story writer, north-west England

Ifor ap Glyn

National Poet of Wales, performer; with un-Londonlike interest in languages 

Naomi Wood

Writer and teacher of novels and films

Rhian Edwards

Welsh poet & single mum, twitcher & horror film nut

Frances Hardinge

Writes dark, bizarre, fantastical books for children and young adults

Jessie Burton

I write novels, I delight in clothes, I enjoy essays

Emma Jane Unsworth

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

Patrick McGuinness

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

Bernardine Evaristo

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

Ned Beauman

Author of three novels, Granta Best Young British Novelists 2013

Denise Mina

Curious reader, book-loving, flâneause, cyclist, angry-loner, collectivist socialist

Benjamin Myers

Lone wolf of the north stalking the fictional hinterlands

Christie Watson

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

Lucy Caldwell

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

Andrew Michael Hurley

In love with the landscapes of the North

Jan Carson

Belfast based novelist and short story writer. Magic realist

Jenni Fagan

Curious, dedicated, strange, brilliant, complicated, engaged, chatty, funny, loyal, true

Christopher Brookmyre

Permanently excited by the possibility of being wrong about everything

Kerry Hudson

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

Neel Mukherjee

Novelist, curious, thinks about form more than he's given credit for

Kit de Waal

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

Horatio Clare

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

Joanna Walsh

Fictionist, autofictionist, essayist, journalist, experimentalist

Jo Mazelis

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

Glenn Patterson

Serial optimist

Nick Harkaway

Novelist, European, wild-eyed black sky dreamer, husband, dad, oenophile, biathlon fan

Jenn Ashworth

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

James Meek

Human writer 

Melissa Lee-Houghton

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

Ros Barber

Emotionally lucid novelist of speculative pasts and futures

Karrie Fransman

Comic creator/graphic novelist who loves experimenting with visual storytelling 

Janice Galloway

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

Tessa Hadley

Novelist and short story writer

Tiffany Murray

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