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…

Anne Taylor is a writer, teacher, Feldenkrais practitioner and writing group facilitator. She worked for many years as a journalist and university lecturer before embarking on an MA in Creative Writing and Personal Development and the facilitation of writing groups in a range of health and community settings with various organisations and universities both face-to-face…

Victoria Field is a pioneer in the use of writing for health and wellbeing and is a qualified biblio- poetry therapist. She has published several poetry collections and a memoir, has edited three books on therapeutic writing and has contributed to many academic and popular publications. She wrote a popular column ‘Crafting a Cure’ for…

Piers is a copywriter who has worked with some of the biggest brands in the UK (Audi, Lloyds Bank) and some of the smallest (the local organic farmer). He’s happy writing at length — for example web content or a video script — but particularly enjoys dreaming up headlines, slogans and company names. He also…

Mark Jervis writes all sorts of things but mainly fiction and narrative non-fiction. His short stories have featured at literary festivals across the UK and he’s currently putting the finishing touches to his first novel. He’s a lecturer at Falmouth University where he teaches a range of subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate level from narrative structure in…

Helen has been teaching people to write for 30 years. She has devised and delivered writing courses from adult classes for recreational writers to undergraduate and masters degrees. She has also created and taught online writing courses since the internet was invented – almost. Her graduates are international prizewinners and have published adult, YA and…

Originally from Long Island, New York, Chelsea graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts. After working in New York as an actress, sound designer and personal assistant, she moved to Ireland where she attended Trinity College Dublin, earning a Masters of Philosophy in Irish…