Dean Atta is an award-winning Black British writer from London known for his heartfelt storytelling rooted in his Greek Cypriot and Jamaican heritage. He writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for all ages. For adult readers, his poetry collection, I Am Nobody’s Nigger, was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize, and his memoir, Person Unlimited:…
Ian Giles is a translator of the Scandinavian languages into English and the current Chair of the Translators Association. Photograph © Camila França
Cath Barton (she/her) is an English writer who has lived in Abergavenny since 2005. Cath won the New Welsh Writing AmeriCymru Prize for the Novella 2017 for The Plankton Collector, which was published by New Welsh Review in 2018. Subsequent publications of novellas are In the Sweep of the Bay (2020, Louise Walters Books) shortlisted…
I live in Edinburgh where I write about the world of people who die with no next-of-kin. I’ve published three novels, written for BBC Radio 4 and been selected by Val McDermid as one of the most compelling LGBTQ+ authors working today. Come say hello on twitter @mspaulsonellis or https://www.marypaulsonellis.co.uk
Rhona Snelling is a freelance ELT author, speaker, project manager, and editor. Rhona is qualified with International House and has extensive experience teaching in Europe and New Zealand. She has been an in-house editor at Pearson and OUP, and holds a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition from the University of Oxford….
Rhiannon Tise is a writer for theatre, television and audio drama. She has written many originals and adaptations for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and her plays have been performed at theatres including the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Court, Soho Theatre, the Finborough, the Arcola Theatre and The Lyric Hammersmith. Her ten-part adaptation of…
Abie Longstaff is a children’s writer. Her books range from picture books to middle grade fiction (spanning roughly ages 2 to 11) and she is published by Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Hachette, Templar and others. She also writes school readers for a range of educational publishers. You can find her on Twitter under @abielongstaff
