Adam LeBor is an author, journalist and veteran former foreign correspondent for several national newspapers. At the Society of Authors, he teaches Open Source Intelligence. He is the author of several critically acclaimed investigative books including a history of the Bank for International Settlements, a study of the United Nations’ failure to prevent genocide and…

Andrew Wilson is a novelist, biographer and journalist. His first book, Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith (Bloomsbury) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize (2003) and also won an Edgar Allan Poe Award and a LAMBDA Literary Award. His first novel, the psychological thriller The Lying Tongue (published in 2007 by Canongate/UK, Simon & Schuster/US), was shortlisted for…

Paul has written 19 plays and stories for BBC Radio 4, drama documentaries for BBC2 and Eastenders for BBC1. He’s also written plays for young people and music and lyrics for five musicals. He is best known for his radio memoir plays, and as a producer Paul has made 400 programmes for all BBC radio…

Graham Bartlett is a bestselling crime writer and police-procedure guru. He is author of the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller Bad for Good (‘a cracking debut’, Mark Billingham) and its follow-ups Force of Hate and City on Fire. For thirty years, Graham was a police officer, policing the city of Brighton and Hove, and rising to become its…

Claire joined the Professional Writing Academy team in 2019. She manages and facilitates an online writing community for the PWA called WriteWell. It is a subscription-based therapeutic writing platform to help people improve their mental wellbeing. Previously, Claire worked for 20 years in television and on radio both in Ireland and in Britain. She enjoyed…

Ayisha Malik is the author of several critically acclaimed novels.  These include Sofia Khan is Not Obliged, Sofia Khan and the Baby Blues, Other Half of Happiness, and This Green and Pleasant Land. She was a WHSmith Fresh Talent Pick and Sofia Khan was a London CityReads choice in May 2019. Her contributions have included,…