Writers

Andrew Michael Hurley

In love with the landscapes of the North

Jan Carson

Belfast based novelist and short story writer. Magic realist

Lucy Caldwell

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

Emma Jane Unsworth

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

Thomas Morris

Short story writer; Wales Book of the Year; editor

Hannah Berry

Mover. Shaker. Comic book maker

Sabrina Mahfouz

Trying to make words that make a change, however small

Helen Mort

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

Nadeem Aslam

Born in Pakistan, a novelist living in England

Jenni Fagan

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

Alexandra Harris

Literary critic, cultural historian, lover of buildings, landscapes, seasons, stories

Denise Mina

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

Amy Liptrot

Writer from a Scottish island. I'm all ears

Sandeep Parmar

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

Sophia Walker

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

Andrew McMillan

Young poet exploring masculinity and the body

Una

Not funny

William Letford

Rotten with wonder, searching for grit, beauty, dignity and heart

Horatio Clare

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

Caleb Femi

Poet. English Teacher. Photographer. Filmaker.

Sarah Howe

British-Chinese poet, academic and editor, born in Hong Kong

Jenn Ashworth

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

Tiffany Murray

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

Liz Berry

Award-winning Midlands poet enchanted by voices, stories and dialect

Nikesh Shukla

Author, novelist, diversity champion, filmmaker, average rapper

Stephen Collins

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

Tessa Hadley

Novelist and short story writer

Louise Welsh

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

Niven Govinden

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

Ifor ap Glyn

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

Melissa Lee-Houghton

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

Stephen Kelman

In the words of the underdog I find my voice

Sarah Perry

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

Janice Galloway

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

Hollie McNish

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

Raymond Antrobus

Widely published poet & spoken word educator. Exploring deafness, identity & emotional literacy