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.

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…