Hannah McLoughlin
Mark Catley
Mark Catley
Mark is an award-winning writer for screen, playwright, script consultant and TV producer. In recent years Mark has worked as a Story Consultant and lead writer for Eastenders (BBC); for which he won a BAFTA. Prior to this Mark was Series Executive Consultant, lead writer and executive producer for Casualty (BBC) for which he won…
Craig Behenna
Craig Behenna
Craig Behenna is an award-winning writer, producer and director. He won the Dark Matters Jury Prize at the Austin Film Festival for One Eyed Girl, which he coproduced and wrote with director Nick Matthews. As a writer, director and producer/coproducer, his work has opened St. Kilda Film Festival, and appeared at festivals including Palm Springs…
Nicky Skinner
Nicky Skinner is an artist who has been based in Cornwall for the last 4 years. She is now a full time creative, after spending many years balancing her art career alongside full time jobs in admin. She studied Art with English Literature at university, loving both subjects, and has always written, but her focus…
Anna Youngs
Anna Youngs
Anna Youngs has been teaching for 27 years. She is an experienced UK Primary School teacher, yoga teacher and therapist. She has taught students of all ages from children to the elderly and specialises in 121 tutoring and designing sessions around the individual needs of each student. Having gained a degree in English Literature, Anna…
Roz Watkins
Roz Watkins is the author of the acclaimed DI Meg Dalton series. The first book in the series, The Devil’s Dice, was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger award, and was The Times Crime Book of the Month. Roz was previously a patent attorney, but this has absolutely nothing to do with a dead one…
Lucy Drake
Lucy Drake
Lucy is an experienced freelance financial controller who also provides consultancy, training, coaching and mentoring in the film and TV industry. She is a qualified Chartered Accountant who started working as a Drama production accountant in the BBC, where she progressed to Senior Production Accountant. Before then having a freelance career and has worked on…
Stuart Maine
Stuart Maine
Stuart has been a game designer for 26 years and was one of the founders of Well Played Games. He tutors the Story for Video Games course.
Debra Penrice
As head of marketing at SilverWood Books, Debra oversees the marketing operations and supports authors with their book marketing plans. Her role is to increase the visibility of SilverWood as a reputable hybrid publisher. Having loved books since childhood, she thoroughly enjoys helping people realise their dream of writing a book and marketing it to…
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of Harmless Like You, Starling Days and The Sleep Watcher, and editor of the anthologies Go Home! and Dog Hearted. She has won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award, and been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Her work has been a New York Times Editors’ Choice and an NPR Great Read. Rowan is a fellow of the…
Maud Dromgoole
Maud Dromgoole
Maud is a writer from South East London. She writes for theatre radio and television and also works and a reader, script editor and lifeguard. She trained on BBC Drama Room and Royal Court Invitational Group and has projects in development with Warp Films and Hampstead Theatre.
Kate McBarron
Kate is a writer, editor and writing for wellbeing practitioner and researcher. She is passionate about words and their ability to enhance our daily lives, from relaxation to self-discovery and workplace wellness. Kate is cofounder of WritingForLife.co.uk and founder of WriteToRelax.com. She is a member of Lapidus International – a words & wellbeing organisation, and NAWE (National Association…
