Ciarán Hayden worked as an animation scriptwriter for three years before joining the RTÉ medical drama series The Clinic as assistant script editor. He then graduated to the role of script editor and story-lined series 6 and 7 of the show, before making the move to the soap opera Fair City. During his time on Fair City, Ciarán took…

Marco Scarola has worked in marketing and communications for more than 20 years. After attending courses with Faber and CBC, he completed a first draft of his grounded sci-fi-thriller Dark Energy. He’s still working on his one-liner.

Abigail Johnson is an alumna from the Faber Academy’s 2016 Writing a Novel online course. She wrote her novel, The Secret Collector, while completing the Curtis Brown Creative three-month novel writing course, where she was tutored by author Laura Barnett. It was longlisted for the 2021 and 2022 Bath Novel Award. Her writing has also…

Sam Willis is a Faber Academy alumna currently working on the second draft of her first novel Welcome to the Club. She works in academic non-fiction as a copy editor and project manager.

Tim Relf writes fiction as T.R. Richmond. His novel, What She Left, was published by Penguin. A psychological suspense story, it sold to publishers in 21 countries and was turned in to an audiobook starring Emilia Clarke and Charles Dance from Game of Thrones. The Guardian called it “extraordinary”, the Sunday Express dubbed it “addictive”,…

Deana Luchia has been a journalist and editor for over twenty years, living and working in Japan, Canada, Italy and Malta. She self-published her first novel, God & Dallas, a few years ago before studying for a Masters in Professional Writing. Her novel, Happy as Harry, was published in 2017. Now living in London with her children and dogs,…

Keziah Frost is a psychotherapist and holds masters degrees in English and Counseling. She developed The Reluctant Fortune-Teller while enrolled in the Faber Academy online course. She shares her life with five little dogs, one audacious cat, and her encouraging human family. The Reluctant Fortune-Teller is her first novel.

Lucy Cripps is a freelance wordsmith with an obsession for the rules of grammar. As a senior lecturer at University of Salzburg, she taught advanced grammar and writing courses to English-teacher trainees, and gained up-close-and-personal understanding of the intricate rules and exceptions that riddle the English language. Away from the chalk face, Lucy has written, edited…

As an artist and maker Kate High has produced work in mixed metals and woods. The contemporary pieces have been exhibited and sold throughout the UK and abroad. She has taught, part-time, for various organisations, the longest period being 17 years for the University of Nottingham. Kate took up writing full-time in 2013. She now lives in Lincolnshire.

Carol Ross is a therapeutic writing practitioner and holds regular therapeutic writing groups in mental health wards in Cumbria. Read more about her work on her website, or follow her on Twitter.