Alan Gillott
Alan Gillott is a poet, writer, composer, and singer who performs in the UK and USA and is well known ...
Alan Heaven
Dr. Alan Heaven is a theatre practitioner and theatre historian. He has been staging mystery plays regularly since 1989 and ...
Alan Smith
Alan Smith's first novel was published just before his fiftieth birthday. ' I was one of those people who always ...
Ali Sparkes
Ali Sparkes is the Blue Peter Award winning author of Frozen In Time, the acclaimed Shapeshifter series, UK National Children's ...
Alwyn Bathan
Alwyn was born in and loves living in the north east of England. She taught for 39 years before 'retiring', ...
Alwyn Marriage
Alwyn, formerly a university philosophy lecturer, Director of two international literacy and literature NGOs and a Rockefeller Scholar, is a ...
Amina Alyal
Amina Alyal has not always lived in this century. She finds it much the same as the last one she ...
Andrea Michael
Andrea is a Londoner, born and bred, which means that she enjoys the anonymity of big cities, and avoids making ...
Andrew Brown
Andrew is a Southerner who spent most of his first twenty years in the London Overspill fringes of working-class Essex, ...
Andrew Crowther
Andrew Crowther, who describes himself as an unprofessional writer, lives in Bradford with his wife Suzanne and a ridiculous number ...
Andy Humphrey
Andy was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside (the home of Tranmere Rovers FC!) and grew up on the Wirral. He moved ...
Angela Arnold
Angela has lived here and there – France, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Scotland, England, Wales – and done this and that: ...
Anna Rose James
Anna (she/her) is a queer, bisexual actor-writer of mixed British and Asian heritage, based in North Yorkshire. As well as ...
Antony Wootten
A primary school teacher for 18 years, Antony taught in a number of different schools, including several in London and ...
Becca Miles
Becca Miles, biologist – turned – creative writer, has been published in anthology More Exhibitionism, Dream Catcher and British Fantasy ...
Bob Beagrie
In a recent review of And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur (The Black Light Engine Room 2010) ...
C.S. Fuqua
C.S. Fuqua began his career in 1979 as a staff writer/reporter for newspapers and magazines before moving full-time to freelance ...
Charlie Hill
Charlie Hill was born in Birmingham, left school at 16, and knows a lot about pubs and playing pool in ...
Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor has had a lifelong obsession with how to change the world. This began when a school friend persuaded ...
Claire Patel-Campbell
Claire Patel-Campbell has always written. As soon as she knew how to use a pen to form letters, she was ...
Clint Wastling
Clint was born in Beverley, Yorkshire and returned there in the mid-1990s after a spell in London as a chemistry ...
Daniel Richardson
Daniel Richardson was born in April 1941 in Chicago, and grew up in Carmel, California during a time in which ...
David Hill
David Hill is a Scottish author, currently based in England, whose work combines fiction and art history. He is a ...
David Lee Morgan
David Lee Morgan has travelled the world with his saxophone, as a performance poet and musician. He has won the ...
Dawn Treacher
Dawn loves sewing and designing creatures from plush materials. This love of creating creatures turned to socks four years ago when ...
Donna Marie Merritt
Donna Marie was born in Rome; alas, not the Rome of the orphan twins but Rome, New York. She spent ...
Doreen Hinchliffe
Doreen Hinchliffe is a retired teacher who comes from Yorkshire but has lived in London for many years. She has ...
Eleanor May Blackburn
Eleanor May Blackburn is a writer/actor/theatre-maker from Sheffield. She writes about mental health, disability, misogyny and sex politics mostly. You ...
Elisabeth Kelly
Elisabeth Kelly is a Principal Early Years Teacher with Midlothian Council with over 15 years' experience of working with children.She ...
Eliza Mood
A Northumbrian now living in County Durham, Eliza started writing way back. She began with poems and stories for school ...
Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell
Elizabeth (she/her) is a York-based poet and teacher. Her pamphlet about re-examining sexuality in middle age, Breaking (Out), was published ...
F Mary Callan
Frances Mary Callan grew up in North Shields in NE England. She studied French and Latin at the university of ...
Fiona Kirkman
Fiona lives in the beautiful city of York in United Kingdom with her husband Tony and son Daniel and a ...
Frank Beill
Frank was born and grew up in the fish dock area of Hull where much of his novel is set ...
Gareth Wood
Birmingham born writer of horror, science fiction and fantasy, Gareth Wood has written twelve novels, along with numerous short stories ...
Gary Allen
Gary Allen was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim. After studying engineering he left college, travelled and worked throughout mainland Europe ...
Giannis Paschos
Giannis Paschos was born in 1954 in Giannena. He is a late bloomer in the world of letters as his ...
Gillian Byrom-Smith
Some of my fondest memories involve books; as a child sitting with my mum reading, studying English at university and ...
Grahaeme Barrasford Young
I left school as late as they’d let me, intending to be a writer, and prepared by taking on the ...
Graham Clews
Born in York, England, in 1942, Graham emigrated to Canada in 1956 with his family and met his wife Marie ...
Greg Michaelson
Greg Michaelson is an Edinburgh based author, who likes to write about how things aren’t and how they might be ...
Greg Quiery
Greg Quiery - a native of county Down - was a community worker in Belfast during the early years of ...
Hannah Stone
If Hannah Stone were an actual stone she’d be a chunk of quartz; multifaceted, unpredictably coloured and sparkling. Sometimes earthy, ...
Harry Gallagher
Harry Gallagher grew up amid the heavy industries of Middlesbrough and now lives in a small coastal village near Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. ...
Ilmar Lehtpere
Ilmar Lehtpere is an Estonian poet and translator. Exiles is a selection, with a few added poems, from the original ...
Izzy Rhiannon Jones
Izzy is a queer poet living in the haunted city of York where she cohosts BeSpeak - a community of ...
Jackie Simmons
Jackie boasts a few ancestors from Yorkshire, in addition to being Emily Dickinson’s seventh cousin, five times removed (but claims that ...
Jennifer Keevill
Jennifer Keevill was born in south west London and grew up in Surrey, Staffordshire and south Wales. She has worked ...
Jill Sharp
Jill Sharp grew up climbing trees and building dens in the New Forest. She studied at Keele and London universities, ...
Jo Somerset
Jo Somerset is based in Manchester. She completed a MA in Creative Writing in May 2020 at the University of ...
Jo Summers
Jo Summers was made in Australia, but her mother, Pauline Kirk, just managed to get back to the UK before ...
John Gilham
In 2015 John was appointed Editor of Dream Catcher Magazine, a prestigious international literary journal, ably following its founder, Paul ...
John Rayne-Davis
John started writing in the 1980s and had his first book “The Valley of God” published in 1996. Since then ...
John Walford
John Walford was born in Anlaby to the west of Hull, that city north of the Humber which once boasted the ...
John Wheatcroft
John Wheatcroft has spent most of his working life as a journalist on newspapers in Lancashire and Yorkshire, with a ...
Jonathan Aylett
Neurodivergent, prize-winning haiku poet who has enjoyed competition success in Japan, the USA, Poland, and Canada, including the prestigious 'Mainichi ...
Joy Simpson
Joy Simpson, Mary Callan’s middle daughter, studied Fine Art at Northumbria university, winning the John Crisp memorial prize for painting ...
Judith Oliver
Judith Oliver is a first time author from North East England, with a proud working class family background. She has ...
Julie Fearn
The Suitcase of Secrets is Julie Fearn’s first novel. Julie was born to Polish and Irish immigrant parents in West ...
Katy Turton
Katy Turton is a Russian historian who has worked at the University of York and Queen’s University, Belfast. She now ...
L. A. Robbins
British and American author L.A. Robbins published what is being praised as an arresting and innovative short story collection in ...
Lance Clark
Lance is retired and lives near Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire – he regularly visits his partner in York, a ...
Laura Engel-Sahr
Laura Engel-Sahr was adopted by Libby Libbinski, a Rhodesian Ridgeback mix, with assistance from Peppertree Rescue, a volunteer organization that rescues ...
Laura Voivodeship
Laura Voivodeship was born twice in rural West Yorkshire. While faking her way through higher education she worked as a ...
Linda F Drattell
Publications The Peccadilloes of Filamena Phipps Author: Linda F DrattellRead more ...
Lucina White
Lucina White was born in Cumbria but for the past eighteen years she has lived and worked in Greater Manchester ...
Maria Stephenson
Five years ago, Maria was trapped within an unhappy toxic marriage. Then her fortieth birthday happened and she wrote herself ...
Mark P. Henderson
Mark P. Henderson insists on the middle initial in his name because there’s another novelist called Mark Henderson who writes ...
Maxine Ridge
Maxine lives in the South Wales Valleys with her family For most of her working life, Maxine worked with young ...
Michael Hildred
Late Flowering is a dramatic collection of poems and drawings by lecturer and artist Michael Hildred, who grew up in Selby during ...
Michael J. Lowis
Mike was born in Yorkshire, where he remained until he married Susan. The couple first moved to Cheshire and then, ...
Neal Hardin
Neal, a life-long resident of East Hull, has written over twenty stories, some of which have been adapted as screenplays ...
Nick David
N.E.David is the pen name of York writer Nick David. Nick was born in London in 1950 but went to ...
Oz Hardwick
Oz Hardwick has always heard voices. His grandfather’s spirited recitations of Burns and the Lake Poets provided his introduction to ...
Patricia Riley
Patricia Riley's love of theatre was instilled in her from an early age. She has vivid memories of discovering the beauty ...
Paul Lingaard
Paul Lingaard (the pen name of Paul Worsley) is a founder member of Fareham Writers, Hampshire. His work has been ...
Pauline Kirk
Born in Birmingham, Pauline moved to York, having lived in Leeds, Reading, Benfleet (Essex), and Melbourne (Australia). She now lives ...
Rebecca Smith
Rebecca Smith has been fascinated by big cats wild in the UK since she first heard tales of the Surrey ...
Rebecca Stonehill
Rebecca Stonehill is a writer and activist based in Norwich. She is the author of The Poet’s Wife, The Girl ...
Richard Cave
A life's story should be written by the heart and not the head; actions performed on a whim excite more ...
Richard Harries
Richard Harries (not to be confused with the Bishop of Oxford) is a well known spoken word artist with a considerable ...
Rita Jerram
Some years ago, Rita Jerram read her grandmother Edith’s journals and began to imagine herself following in Edith’s footsteps. Rita ...
Robin Richards
Robin Richards has self-published two award-winning books, and has over 20 articles or stories in publications as diverse as the Journal of ...
Rosemary Palmeira
Rosemary Palmeira was born in Oporto, where the river meets the sea and came to England when she was eight ...
Ruth Aylett
Ruth Aylett(she/her) is an internationally known researcher in artificial intelligence and robotics, as well as a poet and writer. She ...
S.C. Paterson
S C Paterson (Sue Paterson) has a background in social work. Her first degree was in philosophy and those knotty ...
Sarah Wimbush
Sarah Wimbush is a Doncaster poet who lived in Leeds for 22 years. Her first collection, Shelling Peas with My ...
Shannon O’Neill
Shannon O’Neill mostly lives in her own head, but occasionally wanders the streets of Glasgow too. A poet, theatremaker and ...
Shaunna Harper
It took Shaunna Harper some years to fully realise her flair for writing. Starting out aged twelve with goofy stories ...
Simon Culleton
Simon Culleton was born and bred in Essex England, where he lives with his two children. His love for writing ...
Stella Davis
Stella Davis is a poet who was able to give up the day job in 1999 thanks to an Arts ...
Steve Nash
WINNER Sabotage Best Spoken Word Performer 2014 Steve Nash is a stateless pirate. Well, child of the army, which amounts to ...
Susie Williamson
Susie grew up in the village of Scholes, Holmfirth, in West Yorkshire. She studied at the University of Sheffield and ...
Suzanne Sheran
Suzanne Sheran is an American writer and artist whose creations showcase her love of wordplay, mischief and animals. In addition ...
Tanya Nightingale
Tanya believes poetry should turn people inside out. She won the Yorkshire Open Poetry Competition in 2008 and the Ryedale ...
Terry Simpson
Terry Simpson was born not long after a world war and grew up to a soundtrack of Family Favourites and ...
Thelma Laycock
Thelma started writing as a child and much later became one of the founders of The Aireings, a Leeds based ...
Tim Goldthorpe
Tim Goldthorpe is a long time contributor to Dream Catcher where his unique view of his world has been enjoyed ...
Tim Murgatroyd
Tim Murgatroyd was brought up in Yorkshire. He read English at Hertford College, Oxford University, and now lives with his ...
Tony Lucas
Although he wrote his first rhymed verse in a classroom, at the age of seven, it was only in his ...
Val Horner
Live Events Author Performances Publications Gooseberries £8.00 Author: Val HornerAdd to cart ...
Victoria L. Humphreys
Victoria L. Humphreys was born in Surrey, but now lives in Dorset. She has a PhD in creative writing from ...
Wendy Rayne-Davis
Wendy has been a researcher and did much of the research for this book. She was educated at London University ...
William Thirsk-Gaskill
William Thirsk-Gaskill was born in Leeds and lives in Wakefield. He studied chemistry at Liverpool University, and then worked in ...
Winston Plowes
After entering the world in the 1960s, when my parents were living in a caravan on a petrol station forecourt ...
Yvonne Hendrie
In her forties, after a career as a hospice chaplain and parish minister, Yvonne Hendrie went full circle back to ...