Doreen Hinchliffe is a retired teacher who comes from Yorkshire but has lived in London for many years. She has two previous poetry collections – Dark Italics (Indigo Dreams, 2017) and Substantial Ghosts (Oversteps Books, 2020). In 2011, her Christmas sonnet sequence, The Pointing Star, was recorded by Live Canon and included in their PoemsRead more about Doreen Hinchliffe[…]
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[…]
Jennifer Keevill was born in south west London and grew up in Surrey, Staffordshire and south Wales. She has worked in a variety of administration jobs, studied music at Exeter University, plays the piano and violin and is also a composer. She lives in Exmouth, between the Exe estuary and the Jurassic coast. She hasRead more about Jennifer Keevill[…]
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[…]
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[…]
