Writers

Catherine O'Flynn

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

Patrick McGuinness

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

Nikesh Shukla

Author, novelist, diversity champion, filmmaker, average rapper

Sandeep Parmar

Writer, Critic, interested in issues of migration, race, avant garde literary traditions

Christie Watson

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

Benjamin Myers

Lone wolf of the north stalking the fictional hinterlands

Melissa Lee-Houghton

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

Tessa Hadley

Novelist and short story writer

Nick Harkaway

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

Emma Jane Unsworth

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

Richard Beard

Curious, experimental, mashed-up

Max Porter

Tall, pale, bookish, sleepy, poorly-postured, European, sentimental

Andrew Michael Hurley

In love with the landscapes of the North

Lucy Caldwell

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

Jenn Ashworth

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

Thomas Morris

Short story writer; Wales Book of the Year; editor

Niven Govinden

British novelist. Known as a "writer's writer"

Louise Welsh

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

Kerry Hudson

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

Helen Mort

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

Janice Galloway

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

Rhian Edwards

Welsh poet & single mum, twitcher & horror film nut

Paul McVeigh

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

Ifor ap Glyn

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

Kit de Waal

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

Naomi Wood

Writer and teacher of novels and films

Glenn Patterson

Serial optimist

Stephen Kelman

In the words of the underdog I find my voice

Karrie Fransman

Comic creator/graphic novelist who loves experimenting with visual storytelling 

Courttia Newland

Out of the box, inner city, stylistically diverse, musically influenced 

David Szalay

London writer, European, also Canadian

Jo Mazelis

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

Carys Davies

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

Sarah Perry

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

Stephen Collins

Cartoonist, born 1980. Permanently stuck down a creative rabbit hole

Horatio Clare

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