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…

Emily Barr has written twenty-two published novels and several screenplays. Her first novel, a thriller called Backpack, won the WHSmith New Talent Award and she has twice been nominated for the Carnegie Medal. As well as writing psychological thrillers, she has written eight YA novels, including the multi-award-winning The One Memory of Flora Banks, which…

Mark studied Creative Writing at UEA. He went on to publish Fresh which won the Saltire First Book Award and The Arts Foundation Fellowship in Fiction. Mark has also published short stories. Occasionally, he writes poems. Recently he moved into drama. He has written one play and is now working on his second.