Sarah Wimbush

Sarah Wimbush

Sarah Wimbush is a Yorkshire poet. Her first collection, Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands, was published with Bloodaxe in 2022. She has published two prize-winning pamphlets: The Last Dinosaur in Doncaster (Smith | Doorstop, 2021), and Bloodlines (Seren, 2020) which shortlisted in the Michael Marks Awards. Her poems have recently appeared inRead more about Sarah Wimbush[…]

Stella Davis

Stella Davis

Stella Davis is a poet who was able to give up the day job in 1999 thanks to an Arts Council initiative, which aimed to put “1000 artists in 1000 unusual places”. Her “unusual place” was the port of Southampton, where her hosts were members of Southampton Cargo Handling, then the only stevedores’ co-operative inRead more about Stella Davis[…]

Ali Sparkes

Ali Sparkes

Ali Sparkes is the Blue Peter Award winning author of Frozen In Time, the acclaimed Shapeshifter series, UK National Children’s Book Awards finalist Car-Jacked, Carnegie-nominated Wishful Thinking and more than 50 other titles. A former BBC broadcast journalist and newspaper reporter, Ali has also written comedy for BBC Radio 4 and edited a successful BBCRead more about Ali Sparkes[…]

Solidarity at Stairwell Books

Solidarity at Stairwell Books

Stairwell Books have published nearly 40 women writers (hundreds, including anthologies and magazines). Commitments, distance and cost make gathering together impossible. Women can however support each other through the internet. In this lively Zoom session chaired by editor Rose Drew, some of Stairwell’s authors will share their work and deas. Whether a new or veteranRead more about Solidarity at Stairwell Books[…]

Ruth Aylett

Ruth Aylett

Ruth Aylett(she/her)  is an internationally known researcher in artificial intelligence and robotics, as well as a poet and writer.  She was born in London but has kept moving north: from  Sheffield, then Manchester, to Edinburgh, where she now shares a tenement flat with two cats and a very large number of books. Author of twoRead more about Ruth Aylett[…]

Mark P. Henderson

Mark P. Henderson

Mark P. Henderson insists on the middle initial in his name because there’s another novelist called Mark Henderson who writes in a very different genre. In distancing himself , Mark (Mark P., that is) perhaps highlights his status as a member of modern society’s most marginalised group: he’s male, white, middle class and heterosexual. He’sRead more about Mark P. Henderson[…]