Rachel Kelly’s memoir, Black Rainbow: how words healed me – my journey through depression, is published by Hodder & Stoughton and is available from Amazon. All author proceeds go to mental health charities SANE and United Response. The Black Rainbow app is available free for download on the Apple App store and Google App store. Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness is published by Short…

After spending a decade as a broadcast journalist for the BBC, Jo Furniss gave up the glamour of night shifts to become a freelance writer and serial expatriate. Originally from the United Kingdom, she spent seven years in Singapore and also lived in Switzerland and Cameroon. As a journalist, Jo worked for numerous online outlets and magazines, including Monocle and the Economist. She…

Kris Evans is a writer at Microsoft UK. He has written several novels for Hodder & Stoughton and radio plays for BBC Radio 4. Read his graphic novel online.

Mary-Anne Harrington is Publisher at Headline’s literary imprint Tinder Press, which publishes bestselling and critically acclaimed authors including Maggie O’Farrell, Sue Monk Kidd, Helen Walsh and Patrick Gale, to name a few. She began her career with Headline Publishing, working her way up from editorial assistant to assistant editor, then commissioning editor. She helped to set up Tinder…

Previously an investment banker, Katherine is an alumna of Faber Academy and published author. Her first book, The Girl in the Shadows, is available now on the HarperCollins’ digital imprint HQ.

Peter is associated with some of the most popular and acclaimed documentaries and formatted reality shows of our time. He started life in television directing, producing his first documentary for BBC One in 1980. He went on to direct BBC documentaries for the next 18 years. In 1998 he went to Channel 4 as Commissioning…

Paula Winzar founded and developed the world’s first Social Enterprise Qualification for young people as part of her work as Head of Qualifications & Skills at the Real Ideas Organisation. Prior to this, Paula worked for the Arts Council helping young people to gain new skills through the Arts — in particular setting up and managing the Arts Award across…

Rupert is a YA and children’s author. He has published five novels with Simon & Schuster – The Dark Inside, All Sorts of Possible, and the Tales from the Badlands series: The Boy With One Name, The Black Amulet, and The Book of Mysteries. He mentors novel writers and has taught BA writing students and supervised MA…

Katherine Press is an actress and filmmaker. Her acting credits include Captain America (Marvel), Anthony Horowitz’s Foyles War (ITV), Stephen Poliakoff’s Dancing on the Edge (BBC/Starz), and Ophelia in Sir Trevor Nunn’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (West End). She also has a busy voiceover career, and as a member of the BBC Radio Drama…

Philip Marsden is the award-winning author of a number of works of travel, history and fiction. His titles include The Bronski House, The Levelling Sea, Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place, and most recently, The Summer Isles. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and his work has been translated into…