Park Howell runs businessofstory.com, and has transformed many companies from struggling start-ups to blossoming brands.

Prize-winning crime fiction author Sarah Hilary is a previous guest tutor for Professional Writing Academy. Her debut novel Someone Else’s Skin won the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year 2015. It was the Observer’s Book of the Month (“superbly disturbing”), a Richard & Judy Book Club bestseller, and has been published worldwide. No Other Darkness and Tastes Like Fear (the second and third…

Jane Dey lives in the South of England and has worked in health, education and the arts. She is currently developing a career as a fiction writer but has written for several professional and charitable organisations. Jane has a special interest in ‘ordinary people doing extraordinary things’.

Jacqui Lofthouse is the founder of Nightingale Editions, a new publishing imprint. She is a novelist and runs a mentoring organisation for writers. Her novels including Bluethroat Morning and The Modigliani Girl have been translated into four languages and have sold 100,000 copies. Jacqui has an MA  in Creative Writing from UEA and has taught creative writing in a broad variety of…

Amna K. Boheim worked in investment banking before turning her hand to writing. She completed two Faber Academy writing courses, including the six-month Faber Academy Writing a Novel online course. She writes a blog on life’s little idiosyncrasies, and most recently, has been posting a series of interviews with writing alumnae from Newnham College, Cambridge, under the title,…

Becky Fincham is Director and Founder of Bigmouth. Becky has worked in the publishing industry for 14 years. Starting out as Publicity Manager for the likes of HarperCollins, Headline and Faber & Faber, in 2010 she was made Head of Faber Academy, managing the independent publisher’s creative writing programme. In 2011 Becky was listed as a Rising Star of publishing by trade magazine, The…

Charlie Campbell heads up literary and marketing agency, Greyhound Literary. He’s been a literary agent for over a decade, joining Ed Victor Ltd in 2005. He handled film, TV and serial rights for the agency’s clients, as well as helping launch the speakers bureau and digital publishing arm. He is interested in both fiction and non-fiction,…

Susannah has been teaching people how to write online since 2008, when she helped develop the world’s first fully online masters degree in writing, at Falmouth University. Prior to that she worked for many years in the publishing trade, commissioning and editing books, building lists and developing new talent. It was there she became aware…

Mo Harber-Lamond is an editor and proofreader from Cornwall. He graduated with a first in English Literature and Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2014, and was an editorial assistant for Professional Writing Academy. His interests include short and literary fiction, poetry and songwriting. He is also a keen musician.