Dr. Alan Heaven is a theatre practitioner and theatre historian. He has been staging mystery plays regularly since 1989 and was first invited to direct Doomsday by the Merchant Adventurers in 2010. He is currently the only person who can claim to have ended the world five times. He was previously Artistic Director of theRead more about Alan Heaven[…]
Jill Sharp grew up climbing trees and building dens in the New Forest. She studied at Keele and London universities, and has taught excluded young people in PRUs, and adults at the Open University. She’s been assistant editor on a children’s magazine and her poetry has won prizes and appeared widely in print andRead more about Jill Sharp[…]
Rebecca Stonehill is a writer and activist based in Norwich. She is the author of The Poet’s Wife, The Girl and the Sunbird, The Secret Life of Alfred Nightingale and a prize-winning memoir, The Sky Within. The River Days of Rosie Crow is her fifth published book. She runs Norwich Writers Rebel, a localRead more about Rebecca Stonehill[…]
Giannis Paschos was born in 1954 in Giannena. He is a late bloomer in the world of letters as his first career was in academia; he is an Ichthyology Professor, with dozens of articles published in peer reviewed journals, who has participated in many international conferences and has been a consultant to major projects bothRead more about Giannis Paschos[…]
Join Stairwell Books for the York launch of poetry collection, Village Fox, by Richard Cave. Richard will read from his collection, and will be supported by poets Fiona Timothy, Laurence Tilley. Musical guests (TBA). Richard Cave’s long-awaited first collection offers poems whimsical to environmentally-aware to, dare we say it, poems of “Dylanesque” power andRead more about Launch of Village Fox at Bluebird Bakery[…]
Judith Oliver is a first time author from North East England, with a proud working class family background. She has worked as a teacher, University administrator and civil servant, whilst balancing caring responsibilities for her disabled son. She would love to see more representation of working class people in literature/drama.
Ilmar Lehtpere is an Estonian poet and translator. Exiles is a selection, with a few added poems, from the original Estonian Kodutud luuletused, which was short-listed in Estonia for the Betti Alver Prize, and has been translated into Irish by Aogán Ó Muirheartaigh and into Macedonian by Julijana Velichkovska. His poetry has previously appeared inRead more about Ilmar Lehtpere[…]
