Philip Womack is the author of several critically acclaimed books for young people, including Wildlord and Ghostlord, which was Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week. He has worked with the Royal Literary Fund for many years, promoting writing in a variety of settings. He also contributes to a number of newspapers and magazines, including…
Posy Simmonds is an author, illustrator and newspaper cartoonist, who has drawn mainly for The Guardian. Two graphic novels, Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe, were originally serialised in the paper and later, both were made into feature films. A third novel, Cassandra Darke, was published in 2018. Exhibitions of her work include retrospectives at The…
Vaseem Khan is the author of two award-winning crime series set in India and the upcoming Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the James Bond franchise. His debut, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020….
Cambridge Classics Professor Emerita and Fellow of Newnham College, Mary Beard, is known across the world. She has written numerous books including the prize-winning Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town, best-selling SPQR – A History of Ancient Rome and the highly-acclaimed Women & Power and Twelve Caesars – Images of Power from the Ancient…
Stephen Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and all-round national treasure. Fry has written and presented several documentary series, contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, appears frequently on radio, reads for voice-overs and has written four novels and three volumes of autobiography, Moab Is…
Kate Mosse is an internationally best-selling novelist, short story writer, playwright, non-fiction author and interviewer. Her ten novels include the multi-million selling The Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel), The Joubert Family Chronicles (The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship) and Gothic fiction including The Taxidermist’s Daughter, which she has adapted for the…
Mary Hoffman writes mostly for children and teenagers, though she has published some adult fiction. During her time in the SoA she has been Chair of the Children’s Writers and Illustrators Group and she organised a weekend conference for them, she has served on the Management Committee for three years, some of it during the…
Judy Garton-Sprenger is an award-winning ELT author of numerous adult, secondary and primary course books. She has also written radio series for the BBC World Service, and toured the world with the English Teaching Theatre. She has served as Chair of the SoA Educational Writers Group Committee, is a member of the PD James Memorial…
Sita Brahmachari, is a writer of children’s and young adult fiction and was the winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize (2011). She was Book Trust’s Writer in Residence (2015) and received the UK International Honour for Writing from IBBY (2018). Her multiple award-winning work has been endorsed by Amnesty International, and nominated seven times…
Kevin Crossley-Holland is a poet, translator from Anglo-Saxon (including Beowulf), reteller of traditional tale (The Penguin Book of Norse Myths and Between Worlds: British Folk Tales), librettist and, as novelist for children, author of the Arthur trilogy and winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Fiction Prize. He has collaborated with many composers and artists including…
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…
Philip Gross has published some twenty collections of poetry, including A Bright Acoustic (Bloodaxe, 2017), winning the T.S.Eliot Prize in 2009, and a Cholmondeley Award in 2017. From 2004 to 2017 he was Professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Wales. He is a keen collaborator – with artist Valerie Coffin Price on A Fold In The River (Seren, 2015)…
