Shimon is a (Narrative) Game Designer and Game Writer who is currently based in Seattle, Washington. Shimon has worked with a number of nonprofit (International Federation of the Red Cross, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Bill + Melinda Gates Foundation) and for profit (Google, Facebook, Hilton) organisations on a variety of different types of applied game…

Ben Southwell has been a Series Producer and Director of prime time factual programmes for almost thirty years. He enjoys working on a wide variety of genres including many outdoor survival/bushcraft series with Ray Mears, Who Do You Think You Are? (Ruth Jones and Katherine Ryan), The Thames at Night with Tony Robinson, My God It’s Full of Stars (the story…

Francesco Dimitri is a prize-winning author of fiction and nonfiction, a screenwriter and comic book scriptwriter. His work has been published in many languages. He is considered one of the foremost fantasy writers in Italy, and his debut novel in English, The Book of Hidden Things is acclaimed as ‘beautifully written’ (New York Journal of…

Tessa has a degree in Modern & Medieval Languages from Cambridge University and has worked as a Literary Translator, from Italian into English. She has a background in publishing; as a Literary Agent for Translation she represented both Adult and Children’s/Young Adult books. She has also worked as an Editor, Copy-Editor and Proofreader. Tessa is…

Mandy Byatt is an award-winning novelist who writes psychological suspense. She started her debut novel Just Another Liar (Avon Books, 2022) on our online Faber Academy Writing a Novel course in 2016. Her work has been shortlisted in the Gransnet/HQ novel competition and Woman & Home short story competition as well as long-listed in the HWA/Sharpe Books Unpublished…

Allison holds a PhD in Politics from Queen’s University Belfast. Her PhD focuses on discursive legitimisation of the Colombian peace process (2012-2016), an MA in Comparative Ethnic Conflict, a BA in Spanish, and a BA in International Relations. She currently works in learning development in higher education, specialising in academic skills support and development. She…

Piers Clifton is a screenwriter and producer specialising in family film and TV. His first major screenwriting commission was a UK/Chinese CG animated movie script for Max Howard (producer of Igor and Executive Producer of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron). He went on to write a second screenplay for Max Howard, develop the feature-length comedy…