Natasha Carthew is a Country Writer from Cornwall where she lives with her girlfriend. She has written all her books outside, either in the fields and woodland that surround her home or in the cabin that she built from scrap wood. She has written two books of poetry, as well as three novels for young adults; Winter Damage, The Light That Gets…

Ann Roberts is a former Financial Services IT Professional. It was a career she fell into rather than chose, and she tried several times to escape. The two most notable attempts saw her study Soft Furnishings and Upholstery, and qualify as a Life Coach. Undeterred, Ann made a final bid for freedom in 2013. Since then she’s worked…

Jen Wight works as a fundraiser for an addiction and homelessness charity and is proud to have raised millions of pounds for social justice causes here in the UK and Australia. She was the city editor for the first ever ‘Not for Tourists’ London guide (NFT). She has written columns, reviews and features for a wide…

Candida Lacey, BA (Hons), MA, DPhil, is Publishing Director of Myriad Editions. After completing her doctorate in English and American Literature at the University of Sussex, she spent ten years working as a commissioning editor for Pandora Press, HarperCollins and Jonathan Cape. She joined Myriad to work on the acclaimed ‘state of the world’ infographic atlases before,…

Lucy was born in Belfast in 1981. She is the author of 3 novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, a collection of short stories, and is the editor of the anthology Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (Faber, 2019). Awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the George Devine Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Imison…

Hannah Vincent is a playwright and novelist. Her first novel Alarm Girl was published by Myriad in 2014 and her second, The Weaning, was published by Salt earlier this year. She is currently working on a collection of short stories. Hannah teaches Creative Writing on the Open University’s MA and life writing on the Autobiography and Life writing programme at…

William is an entrepreneur, philanthropist writer and broadcaster with a distinguished record of support for the arts and literature. In 1992, he founded the Forward Prizes for Poetry and in 1994, National Poetry Day. Since September 2015, he has been chairman of the Board of Trustees at Somerset House. He is the founder and Chairman of…

Helen Stockton has been working with adult groups since 2000 when she first started working in Further Education. She includes writing for wellbeing as part of her general creative writing offer and has facilitated courses for the wider public and in mental health settings including her local hospice. She is also a writing mentor, helping writers…