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…
Hannah Berry is an occasionally award-winning comics creator, scriptwriter and campaigner. Author of three solo graphic novels for Jonathan Cape – BRITTEN & BRÜLIGHTLY (2008), ADAMTINE (2012), and LIVESTOCK (2017) – she has also contributed comics to anthologies and publications from 2000AD to The New England Journal of Medicine. She is a fellow of the…
Woodrow Phoenix is a comics writer and artist whose constant experiments with the form appear regularly in Europe, Japan, North and South America. His strips have featured in many UK newspapers including The Guardian, the Independent on Sunday and the Observer. He creates graphic novels for both adults and children, some adapted for television projects…
Lydia Monks is a best-selling children’s book author and illustrator. Her first picture book, I Wish I Were a Dog, won the Smarties book prize in 1998. She has since been nominated for many awards for her work including The Greenaway, The Scottish Book Prize and The Nibbies. As well as writing her own books,…
