Sarah has designed and taught literature and writing programmes for twenty years. As Director of the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick, she led a curriculum centred on experiment, serious play and creative failure, which are the roots of her own writing practice. As co-ordinator of the MA and MFA programmes in Creative Writing…

Heidi is a writer and illustrator based in Cornwall, with experience working with students and researchers in higher education. She understands the unique challenges and rewards of the creative process. Heidi has an MA in Illustration: Authorial Practice and has won a number of short form writing and graphic design awards. Her personal love for…

Amy Arthur (she/her) is a disabled science journalist and nonfiction author based in Wales, UK. Amy has been working as a journalist for the last five years, with bylines in New Scientist, Live Science, BBC Sky at Night, BBC Wildlife and Popular Science. She’s particularly passionate about telling health and disability stories with nuance, sensitivity…

Daniel Trilling is a widely published journalist, author and editor based in London. He is a regular contributor to the Guardian’s Long Read and the London Review of Books, and has written for a range of publications including the New York Times, Financial Times and Al-Jazeera English. He specialises in long-form reported journalism on human rights and politics, particularly migration and identity.…

Alice is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Shanghai Immortal, the first in a trilogy following the shenanigans of charmingly profane, irreverent, sometimes petulant but always entertaining half hulijing fox spirit Lady Jing. She’s lived in Calgary, Taipei, Paris, Stockholm, Beijing, London, and Hong Kong, giving her the unique experience of being a minority…

Debora Krut is a recent Oxford Graduate in Spanish Literature and Languages. She speaks Russian, Spanish, French and English, and wrote and directed a dark comedy play, Brain Freeze, about the unexplored sides of having cancer.

Maria Carranza is a Mexican writer, script consultant, development executive, historian, and translator with 12+ years of international experience in film and TV. She has a MSt in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford and has worked for some internationally renowned film production companies, such as Mantarraya in Mexico City. She’s worked as a…

Lucy Barker is the author of The Other Side of Mrs Wood, published by 4th Estate, the first draft of which was selected as runner-up for the Curtis Brown First Novel Prize. A lifelong writer with a passion for women’s social history, Lucy’s stories take inspiration from the myriad of fascinating women she uncovered through research for her MA…

Samira Shackle is a multi-award-winning freelance journalist, author and editor. She is a regular contributor to the Guardian’s Long Read, and also writes for Guardian Saturday magazine, Al-Jazeera English, Prospect and GQ. She has broadcast on BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service and Al-Jazeera English. She writes deeply reported, long-form features on a range of…

Dr Mike Hollows is author of the bestselling WW2 historical novel, The German Nurse and a creative writing educator teaching at the University of Cambridge and Liverpool John Moores University. Mike completed his PhD in creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University, researching the impact of the Second World War on the Science Fiction genre.…