Deborah Masson was born and bred in Aberdeen, Scotland. Always restless and fighting against being a responsible adult, she worked in several jobs including secretarial, marketing, reporting for the city’s freebie newspaper and a stint as a postie – to name but a few. Through it all, she always read crime fiction, and when motherhood finally settled…

Paul’s debut novel, The Good Son, won The Polari First Novel Prize and The McCrea Literary Award and was shortlisted for many others including the Authors Club Best First Novel Award and the Prix du Roman Cezam. The Good Son was also Brighton’s City Reads 2016 and was given out around the UK for World Book Night 2017.…

Awais Khan is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and Durham University. He is an alum of Faber Academy’s Writing a Novel: the first 15,000 online course, and also studied at the prestigious Faber Academy in London. His work has appeared in The Aleph Review, The Missing Slate, Daily Times and MODE among other publications. His debut…

Anna Davidson has worked in trade publishing for over 20 years, both in-house, commissioning and editing, and as a freelance writer and editor. Most recently, she was Head of Editorial Management at Faber & Faber. Anna started her career as editorial assistant at Hodder Children’s Books and since then has worked on children’s and adult books,…

Susan Yearwood at Susan Yearwood Agency has successfully launched the career of Kerry Young, then a debut writer who was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award for Pao, the first book in a trilogy set in Jamaica. She also represented Prajwal Parajuly, whose collection, The Gurkha’s Daughter: Stories, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.

Sabine Marschner studied English and French literature at university. For a couple of years she worked as a product manager in publishing but wasn’t happy that her creative impulses had few outlets. So, she struck out on her own, working in the production office of a large commercial musical theatre and writing texts for a marketing…

Rebecca Ngakane is currently on a Faber Academy Work in Progress course, writing her first YA dystopian novel, The Humble. When not almost missing submission deadlines, meetings and formal dinners, she is an English teacher at a school that used to make the ‘Worst Schools In England’ list.

Alison is a senior industry-respected entertainment and PR publishing professional. She is an award- winning book publicist with experience launching writing careers, managing major figures and creating global brands. She has a proven track record in establishing global bestselling writers and coordinating major international events. She has a breadth of high level multi-platform contacts and an excellent knowledge of the media environment. Alison is…

Eley Williams’ Attrib. and other stories (Influx Press, 2017) was awarded the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2018. With stories anthologised in The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story (Penguin Classics, 2018) and Liberating the Canon (Dostoevsky Wannabe, 2018), she is a Fellow of the MacDowell Colony and the Royal Society of Literature.