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A. M. DASSU is a former World Book Day author and internationally acclaimed author of 16 children’s books, including Boy, Everywhere and Fight Back and Kicked Out, which have collectively been listed for over 55 awards, including the Carnegie Medal, Waterstones Children’s…

Andrew Blackman is a former Wall Street Journal staff writer, now concentrating on fiction. His latest novel A VIRTUAL LOVE (Legend, 2013) explores themes of love and identity in the digital age. His debut novel ON THE HOLLOWAY ROAD (Legend, 2009) won…

Eric Akoto is the editor and publisher of Litro Magazine, which for two decades has published emerging and established writers from around the world — in print, online, and through live events. He has read, selected, and edited short work at scale,…

Felicia Yap is the author of the speculative literary thrillers Future Perfect and Yesterday. Future Perfect (Headline UK, 2021) is a murder mystery set in a near-future Britain where computers can predict how we live and when we will die. Her debut…

Glenn Fisher is an author, copywriter, and speaker. His best-selling book on copywriting, The Art of the Click, was shortlisted for a Business Book of the Year award. He created the hit copywriting podcast All Good Copy and is the co-host of…

Inés Gregori Labarta is a writer and artist with a PhD in Creative Writing by Lancaster University. Her interests are the novella as a form, multilingualism, unreliable narrators, magic realism, the gothic, speculative fiction, queer theory and graphic novels. She has published…

Jenny Knight is the author of Wild Moon Rising, a lead title for Akan Books, the new HarperCollins imprint headed by June Sarpong. A prize-winning writer of short stories, fiction and memoir, her work featured in Kit de Waal’s celebrated Common People…

BBC Slam Champion Jess Green is a performance poet and script writer. She has performed at Glastonbury, Latitude, Bestival and BBC 6 Music Festival. Her solo shows, Burning Books and A Self Help Guide To Being In Love With Jeremy Corbyn, received…

Jessica writes fiction. Her debut novel, Saltwater was published by Sceptre in 2019 and won the Portico Prize in 2020. It explores mother-daughter relationships and shifting class identity in relation to place and the body. Her second novel, Milk Teeth interrogates wanting,…

Jo Gatford is an award-winning author, editor and mentor with over 15 years’ experience teaching creative writing. Her short fiction has been selected for the Wigleaf Top 50, Best Small Fictions and Best Microfictions, and published in more than 70 anthologies and…

Joanna Pocock is a British-Canadian writer currently living in London. Her work of creative non-fiction, Surrender , won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize in 2018 and was published in May 2019. Blending memoir with reportage, criticism with nature writing, Surrender explores the…

Jonathan Gibbs is the author of two novels, Randall, or The Painted Grape (Galley Beggar) and The Large Door (Boiler House), and a book-length poem, Spring Journal. This poem, about life under Covid-19 and inspired by Louis MacNeice’s Autumn Journal, was written on Twitter between March and August 2020,…

Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of a collection of prose poems: The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). He holds degrees in English and Creative Writing from UC Berkeley and Antioch University Los Angeles. His…

Lorette C. Luzajic is a writer and editor whose ekphrastic poems and stories have appeared in journals and anthologies internationally, with work translated into Spanish, Urdu, and Arabic. She is the founding editor of The Ekphrastic Review and runs the Ekphrastic Academy,…

Maria Thomas is an award-winning writer of short fiction. She has taught writing at the University of Virginia, and as a Promising Scholar and Margaret McBride Lerhman Fellow at the University of Oregon where she studied for her MFA in Fiction. She…

Megan Turner is a fiction writer, teacher and developmental editor. She grew up between Harrogate, England and Maryland in the US, later spent a year teaching English in Korea, and now lives in Maine. Her writing often draws on questions of place,…

Nadia Owusu is a Brooklyn-based writer and urban planner. She is the recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award. Her first book,”Aftershocks,” will be published by Simon and Schuster (US) and Sceptre (UK) in 2020. Nadia’s lyric essay chapbook, “So Devilish a Fire,” was a…

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald is a professor at the University of Limerick with a background in psychology, teaching and learning. Sarah has five published novels out in the world. My work has been translated into over 17 languages and adapted for the stage…

Dr Sonia Overall is a writer, psychogeographer and educator. Her published work includes novels, poetry, short stories, creative nonfiction, academic articles and features, alongside writing and adapting work for performance. Sonia’s creative research and practice interests include place, memory and the past,…

Supriya Rakesh is an author, poet and educator with a PhD from IIM, Bangalore. Her short fiction is published in Litro, Setu Bilingual, Kitaab, Muse India and forthcoming in a South-Asian anthology on gendered violence. She recently won the Bound Food essay…

Vanessa Friedman (she/her) is a queer dyke writer living in Portland, OR. She’s the community editor at Autostraddle and a teaching artist with 826NYC. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College and is a Tin House Summer Workshop…

Xanthi Barker is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction based in London. She has an MA in Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her story One Thing was published in 2019 as part of Open Pen's novelette series. Will this…