Carol has published almost 20 books, mostly business books based on Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Others cover topics as diverse as weight management, pig-keeping, memoirs and three educational books for children – on ecology, health and making friends. Some have been in print for over 25 years and the pig-keeping one was the leader in its field….
Born and raised in Australia, S.J. Groenewegen has written numerous SF essays, short stories, and novels, and often appears at SFF conventions as a panellist and moderator. S.J.’s latest novel, The Disinformation War, is speculative fiction published by Goldsmiths Press/GoldSF. With a background in law enforcement/criminal justice, mostly in intelligence analysis, S.J. has worked within…
Ray Anyasi is a multiple published author, poet, comic creator and screenwriter. He is the organiser of the Rayany Creators Film Festival happening in Aberdeen. Between 2015 and 2022, Ray was Director of Programs for Lagos Comic Con and Rendacon Animation Film Festival.
Michelle Hodkin is the New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, and USA Today bestselling author of the Mara Dyer Trilogy and its companion series The Shaw Confessions, which have sold just under one million copies worldwide. Her books have been published in sixteen languages, and have been praised by the Los Angeles Times, TIME Magazine, and were…
Sophie is a Bristol-based poet, artist, copywriter and ex-Canoe Coach. Her work has been published in The Rialto, Magma, The Moth, Banshee, Under the Radar, Propel, Neon, Ink Sweat and Tears, The Interpreter’s House, and Anthropocene and has been broadcasted on BBC Radio Bristol. Sophie has been shortlisted twice for the Bridport Prize and has…
Living alone, age 64, on the low income of state benefits and being one of the 110,000 in the North of Ireland living with a rare disease, I now have first-hand experience of being in the typically underrepresented, marginalised community of artists. My life during the war in the North and my career as a…
Since receiving an Eric Gregory award in 1981, Philip Gross has taught creative writing from schools to universities and published 27 collections, for adults and for young people; his latest, The Thirteenth Angel (Bloodaxe, 2022) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. He won the T.S. Eliot in 2009, a Cholmondeley Award in 2017, and thrives on collaboration, e.g. with poet Lesley Saunders on A Part…
Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a writer, poet, translator, musician, and editor. She writes and translates in English, French, Chinese, and occasionally Spanish. She also works with Italian and Japanese. Her work includes a novel in stories, Dear Chrysanthemums (Scribner, 2023), five poetry collections, most recently Rain in Plural (Princeton, 2020) and The Ruined Elegance (Princeton, 2016), eighteen translations, and three coedited anthologies…
Zara Slattery is a graphic novelist, illustrator and tutor, and author of the award-winning graphic memoir, Coma. She collaborates with writers and organisations in creating work on issues around the environment, identity, health and disability, and was recently the disability consultant for Canterbury Cathedral’s Miracle Windows comics project. She’s currently working on the medieval eco-fable, Sweeney’s Progress,…
Alice Nuttall is an indie comics creator, and writer of three webcomics, Footloose, Cherry, and Black Market Magic, co-created with artist Emily Brady. She is an admin for The CVA, an online group supporting UK-based indie comics creators, and a regular attendee at comic conventions around the UK.
Simon Moreton is an artist and author. He draws and writes about everyday life, memory, identity, and our relationship to the histories of the places we live in. As well as being a committed self-publisher, his comics have been published by Avery Hill, Uncivilized, Kilgore Books, and Retrofit. His latest book, WHERE?, was published by Little Toller…
Nyla Ahmad is Reading Communities Manager at Scottish Book Trust, leading on programming Book Week Scotland. Nyla was the inaugural awardee of Literature Alliance Scotland’s Next Level Award and currently serves on the Glasgow Zine Library board of trustees. She previously co-led the BHP Comics project, Full Colour, a mentoring programme for young comics creators…
