Rebecca Mascull is a historical novelist, who also writes saga fiction as Mollie Walton and contemporary romcoms as Harper Ford. She has worked with a range of publishers, including HarperCollins, Hodder & Stoughton, Headline Books, Bonnier Zaffre and SpellBound Books. Rebecca has been listed in a variety of awards, such as being nominated for the…

Nicola Chester is the award-winning author of On Gallows Down, as well as a Guardian Country Diarist and columnist for the RSPB and BBC Countryfile Magazine. An ‘imperfect activist’ for community, climate and nature, she also writes about rural matters, and her work appears in several other publications and anthologies. Nicola is one of the…

Fiona Mozley is the author of two novels, Elmet and Hot Stew, and several short stories. She is the winner of a Somerset Maugham Award and The Polari Prize, has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize, The Ondaatje Prize and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. She was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and…

Abigail Mann is the author of three novels, The Lonely Fajita, The Sister Surprise, and The Wedding Crasher, and an experienced writing mentor and workshop host.

Camilla Grudova is a critically acclaimed author. The Doll’s Alphabet, Children of Paradise was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and The Coiled Serpent, longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She has won the Shirley Jackson Prize for her short story ’Waxy’ and was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2023 and…

A K Blakemore is a poet and novelist based in North Essex. Her novels include The Manningtree Witches (Granta, 2021)– winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize for Best Debut Novel, and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and Society of Authors Ondaatje Prize – and The Glutton (Granta, 2023), shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas…

Jen Calleja is the author of Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode, Vehicle, I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For, and the forthcoming Fair: The Life-Art of Translation. Her short fiction has appeared in Best British Short Stories, The London Magazine, Somesuch Stories, 3:AM and Another Gaze. Jen has been shortlisted for the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize and has been a judge for The London…

Alycia Pirmohamed is the author of the poetry collection Another Way to Split Water. In 2023, her nonfiction debut A Beautiful and Vital Place won the Nan Shepherd Prize and is forthcoming with Canongate in 2026. Alycia also writes poetry criticism, reviews, and lyric essays, and she currently teaches on the Creative Writing master’s programme at the University…