James Clarke
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 Russell Garrett
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
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
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…
Ken Wilson
I’ve been involved in English Language Teaching for more than fifty years and a published author of ELT materials since I was 23, when I wrote and recorded an album of ‘teaching songs’ called Mister Monday. Since then, I’ve written or co-written about thirty ELT titles, including a dozen series of course books. My UK…
Davina Hamilton
Davina Hamilton is a rhyming children’s author, journalist and mother-of-two. The former Entertainment Editor for British publication, The Voice newspaper, Davina spent 14 years with the company, before making her foray into the world of children’s literature. 2017 saw the release of her critically acclaimed debut children’s book, Riley Can Be Anything. Her celebrated follow-up…
Joanna Nadin
Joanna Nadin is a former broadcast journalist and special adviser to the Prime Minister. Since leaving politics, she’s written more than a hundred books for children, teenagers and adults, including the Sunday Times bestselling The Worst Class in the World series, and the Carnegie-nominated Joe All Alone, which is now a BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated BBC…