Juliet Gilkes Romero is an award-winning writer for stage and screen. She was Writer in Residence at the National Theatre 2022/2023 attached to the New Works Department. Juliet is the recipient of the Alfred Fagon award for Best New Play 2020, the Roland Rees Bursary 2019, named in honour of the co-founder of the Alfred Fagon…
Dean Atta is an award-winning Black British writer from London known for his heartfelt storytelling rooted in his Greek Cypriot and Jamaican heritage. He writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for all ages. For adult readers, his poetry collection, I Am Nobody’s Nigger, was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize, and his memoir, Person Unlimited:…
Connor Allen is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and former Children’s Laureate Wales (2021-2023). He’s written for BBC Wales, BBC Radio 4, Wales Millennium Centre, and others. He wrote and performed in his acclaimed show The Making of a Monster, and was the 2023 winner of the Imison Award for his debut audio drama of the…
James Clarke has written and produced a number of short film projects. He has been longlisted in the BAFTA Best Short Film category. He is currently developing several scripts. James has been a Script Reader for the BFI and taught at London Film School. He currently contributes to the MA Feature Film Development course at…
Paul translates from Danish and Norwegian and, with his keen interest in drama, has translated a dozen plays and heads a mentoring programme for aspiring theatre translators with Foreign Affairs. He has also translated a score of books, including Michael Strunge’s punk poetry collection, Speed of Life. Paul has served as Chair of the Association…
Kathy Saranpa earned her BA and MA in Scandinavian at UCLA and her PhD in Germanic Languages at Yale University. She taught at the University of Oregon, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Eastern Finland before she began her career in translation. Her first full-length book translation, A Silenced Voice: The Life of…
Rebecca Colby is a children’s author, poet and screenwriter who has traditionally published 46 books (with 6 more forthcoming) with Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, and Nosy Crow, amongst others. Her educational work includes narrative non-fiction picture books with the National Trust and phonics books/early readers with both Collins and Maverick Arts…
