Francesca Sobande is a writer and reader in digital media studies at Cardiff University. Her books include The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Consuming Crisis: Commodifying Care and COVID-19 (SAGE, 2022), and Big Brands Are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture (University of California Press, 2024). She is also the co-author of Black Oot…
Carole Burns is a prize-winning author whose most recent book, The Same Country (Legend Press, 2023), was named a top 2023 Welsh fiction book by the Wales Arts Review. A journalist for publications such as the Washington Post and LitHub, she recently served as the lead fiction judge for the 2025 Wales Book of the…
Susan Stokes-Chapman is an English author of historical fiction. She studied at Aberystwyth University, where she completed a BA in Education and English Literature, followed by an MA in Creative Writing. A longstanding affinity for Wales – cultivated since childhood – led her to settle in Gwynedd in 2021. Susan’s debut novel Pandora was released…
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….
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…
