Stairwell Books will join us at Atom Bar, on New Walkergate on 26th March. Bring your publishing questions, but not, please, your manuscripts. Typical in March, we focus on boosting female authors and creatives. We’re switching things around! Several of Stairwell Books’ authors will be reading from their work, and there will be the oportunity to buyRead more about An Evening with 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[…]
Greg Michaelson is an Edinburgh based author, who likes to write about how things aren’t and how they might be. His short stories have appeared regularly since 2001, in UK, and also New Zealand and Irish publications. Greg’s novel The Wave Singer (Argyll, 2008) was short listed for a Scottish Arts Council First Book Award,Read more about Greg Michaelson[…]
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 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[…]
Angela has lived here and there – France, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Scotland, England, Wales – and done this and that: writer, artist, smallholder, garden designer, and whatever one calls a member of too many committees…now settled into doing poetry and living in North Wales. She loves languag/s and is currently (endlessly) learning Welsh. She enjoysRead more about Angela Arnold[…]
Andrew Crowther, who describes himself as an unprofessional writer, lives in Bradford with his wife Suzanne and a ridiculous number of books. Several attempts at his education have been made over the years, in Bradford, Lancaster and Aberystwyth. He has been making up stories ever since he was a child, forever dreaming of fantastic events,Read more about Andrew Crowther[…]
Victoria L. Humphreys was born in Surrey, but now lives in Dorset. She has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Southampton, and has also studied at the University of Ulster, the University of Surrey, and the Moscow State Institute for International Relations. Not the Work of an Ordinary Boy was inspired byRead more about Victoria L. Humphreys[…]
Elisabeth Kelly is a Principal Early Years Teacher with Midlothian Council with over 15 years’ experience of working with children.She recently graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma (Distinction) from the University of Edinburgh in Learning for Sustainability and has become passionate about environment and place education. She believes it is important for children to connect withRead more about Elisabeth Kelly[…]
Charlie Hill was born in Birmingham, left school at 16, and knows a lot about pubs and playing pool in South Birmingham and elsewhere. He has lived in Adelaide, Australia, spent time in both Pushkar and Kathmandu and has travelled – through Florida, Alabama and Georgia – to New Orleans. Since having kids he hasRead more about Charlie Hill[…]
