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)…
Gwyneth Lewis was National Poet of Wales from 2005-06. She wrote the bilingual words for the front of the iconic Wales Millennium Centre. She’s an award-winning poet. Her most recent collection is Sparrow Tree (Bloodaxe Books). She has published seventeen books of poetry, non-fiction and, with Rowan Williams, a translation of The Book of Taliesin (Penguin…
Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, Daljit Nagra’s four poetry collections, all with Faber & Faber, have won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem and Best First Book, the South Bank Show Decibel Award and the Cholmondeley Award, and been shortlisted for the Costa Prize and twice for the TS Eliot Prize. Daljit is a…
Nicola Morgan, sometimes known as The Teenage Brain Woman, is a multi-award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction whose written and spoken work on young brains, psychology and mental health is loved by teenagers, schools and families around the world. In 2018 the School Library Association awarded her the Outstanding Contribution to Information Books. Her teenage novels…
Sarah McIntyre illustrates and writes picture books such as the Grumpycorn books and The New Neighbours, and works with co-author Philip Reeve on highly illustrated books such as Oliver and the Seawigs, Pugs of the Frozen North, and The Legend of Kevin. She’s seen first-hand how illustration and drawing pictures can inspire children to read and create…
Sir Alan Ayckbourn, CBE is an Olivier and Tony Award-winning playwright. He has written numerous plays that are staged throughout the world including Absurd Person Singular and The Norman Conquests. Artistic Director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough for 39 years, he has also worked extensively in London’s West End and is considered to be one of the most…
Malorie Blackman, OBE is a writer of children’s and young adult fiction and was the Children’s Laureate between 2013 and 2015. Her series Noughts and Crosses was voted as one of BBC’s The Big Read’s ‘The Nation’s Best-Loved Books’ in 2003 and in 2007 she was appointed OBE. She has published over sixty children’s books and won over…
William Boyd, CBE is a novelist, screenwriter and winner of the SoA’s 1981 Somerset Maugham Award for A Good Man in Africa, which also won the Whitbread Book Award. In 2005 he was appointed CBE and in 2006 won the Costa Book Award for his book Restless. He has written eleven novels and has been shortlisted for the…
Simon Brett, OBE writes detective fiction and was a radio producer whose work includes producing the BBCs first episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, as well as episodes of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and Just a Minute. For radio he wrote After Henry and No Commitments. He has written a great many mystery novels and in 2004 was awarded…
