Authors

Alan Gillott

Alan Gillott is a poet, writer, composer, and singer who performs in the UK and USA and is well known ...
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Alan Smith

Alan Smith's first novel was published just before his fiftieth birthday. ' I was one of those people who always ...
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Ali Sparkes

Ali Sparkes is the Blue Peter Award winning author of Frozen In Time, the acclaimed Shapeshifter series, UK National Children's ...
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Alwyn Bathan

Alwyn was born in and loves living in the north east of England. She taught for 39 years before 'retiring', ...
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Alwyn Marriage

Alwyn, formerly a university philosophy lecturer, Director of two international literacy and literature NGOs and a Rockefeller Scholar, is a ...
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Amina Alyal

Amina Alyal has not always lived in this century. She finds it much the same as the last one she ...
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Andrea Michael

Andrea is a Londoner, born and bred, which means that she enjoys the anonymity of big cities, and avoids making ...
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Andrew Brown

Andrew is a Southerner who spent most of his first twenty years in the London Overspill fringes of working-class Essex, ...
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Andrew Crowther

Andrew Crowther, who describes himself as an unprofessional writer, lives in Bradford with his wife Suzanne and a ridiculous number ...
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Andy Humphrey

Andy was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside (the home of Tranmere Rovers FC!) and grew up on the Wirral. He moved ...
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Angela Arnold

Angela has lived here and there – France, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Scotland, England, Wales – and done this and that: ...
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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 ...
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Antony Wootten

A primary school teacher for 18 years, Antony taught in a number of different schools, including several in London and ...
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Becca Miles

Becca Miles, biologist – turned – creative writer, has been published in anthology More Exhibitionism, Dream Catcher and British Fantasy ...
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Bob Beagrie

In a recent review of And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur (The Black Light Engine Room 2010) ...
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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 ...
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Charlie Hill

Charlie Hill was born in Birmingham, left school at 16, and knows a lot about pubs and playing pool in ...
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Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor has had a lifelong obsession with how to change the world. This began when a school friend persuaded ...
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Claire Patel-Campbell

Claire Patel-Campbell has always written. As soon as she knew how to use a pen to form letters, she was ...
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Clint Wastling

Clint was born in Beverley, Yorkshire and returned there in the mid-1990s after a spell in London as a chemistry ...
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Daniel Richardson

Daniel Richardson was born in April 1941 in Chicago, and grew up in Carmel, California during a time in which ...
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David Hill

David Hill is a Scottish author, currently based in England, whose work combines fiction and art history. He is a ...
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David Lee Morgan

David Lee Morgan has travelled the world with his saxophone, as a performance poet and musician. He has won the ...
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Dawn Treacher

Dawn loves sewing and designing creatures from plush materials. This love of creating creatures turned to socks four years ago when ...
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Don Walls

Don was born in Baker Street, in the Burton Stone Lane area of York in 1929. Determined to waste no ...
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Donna Marie Merritt

Donna Marie was born in Rome; alas, not the Rome of the orphan twins but Rome, New York. She spent ...
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Doreen Hinchliffe

Doreen Hinchliffe is a retired teacher who comes from Yorkshire but has lived in London for many years. She has ...
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Elisabeth Kelly

Elisabeth Kelly is a Principal Early Years Teacher with Midlothian Council with over 15 years' experience of working with children.She ...
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Eliza Mood

A Northumbrian now living in County Durham, Eliza started writing way back. She began with poems and stories for school ...
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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 ...
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F Mary Callan

Frances Mary Callan grew up in North Shields in NE England. She studied French and Latin at the university of ...
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Fiona Kirkman

Fiona lives in the beautiful city of York in United Kingdom with her husband Tony and son Daniel and a ...
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Frank Beill

Frank was born and grew up in the fish dock area of Hull where much of his novel is set ...
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Gary Allen

Gary Allen was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim. After studying engineering he left college, travelled and worked throughout mainland Europe ...
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Gillian Byrom-Smith

Some of my fondest memories involve books; as a child sitting with my mum reading, studying English at university and ...
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Grahaeme Barrasford Young

I left school as late as they’d let me, intending to be a writer, and prepared by taking on the ...
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Graham Clews

Born in York, England, in 1942, Graham emigrated to Canada in 1956 with his family and met his wife Marie ...
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Greg Michaelson

Greg Michaelson is an Edinburgh based author, who likes to write about how things aren’t and how they might be ...
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Greg Quiery

Greg Quiery - a native of county Down - was a community worker in Belfast during the early years of ...
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Hannah Stone

If Hannah Stone were an actual stone she’d be a chunk of quartz; multifaceted, unpredictably coloured and sparkling. Sometimes earthy, ...
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Harry Gallagher

Harry Gallagher grew up amid the heavy industries of Middlesbrough and now lives in a small coastal village near Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. ...
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Izzy Rhiannon Jones

Izzy is a queer poet living in the haunted city of York where she cohosts BeSpeak - a community of ...
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Jackie Simmons

Jackie boasts a few ancestors from Yorkshire, in addition to being Emily Dickinson’s seventh cousin, five times removed (but claims that ...
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Jennifer Keevill

Jennifer Keevill was born in south west London and grew up in Surrey, Staffordshire and south Wales. She has worked ...
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Jo Somerset

Jo Somerset is based in Manchester. She completed a MA in Creative Writing in May 2020 at the University of ...
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Jo Summers

Jo Summers was made in Australia, but her mother, Pauline Kirk, just managed to get back to the UK before ...
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John Gilham

In 2015 John was appointed Editor of Dream Catcher Magazine, a prestigious international literary journal, ably following its founder, Paul ...
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John Rayne-Davis

John started writing in the 1980s and had his first book “The Valley of God” published in 1996. Since then ...
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John Walford

John Walford was born in Anlaby to the west of Hull, that city north of the Humber which once boasted the ...
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John Wheatcroft

John Wheatcroft has spent most of his working life as a journalist on newspapers in Lancashire and Yorkshire, with a ...
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Jonathan Aylett

Neurodivergent, prize-winning haiku poet who has enjoyed competition success in Japan, the USA, Poland, and Canada, including the prestigious 'Mainichi ...
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Joy Simpson

Joy Simpson, Mary Callan’s middle daughter, studied Fine Art at Northumbria university, winning the John Crisp memorial prize for painting ...
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Katy Turton

Katy Turton is a Russian historian who has worked at the University of York and Queen’s University, Belfast. She now ...
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L. A. Robbins

British and American author L.A. Robbins published what is being praised as an arresting and innovative short story collection in ...
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Lance Clark

Lance is retired and lives near Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire – he regularly visits his partner in York, a ...
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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 ...
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Laura Voivodeship

Laura Voivodeship was born twice in rural West Yorkshire. While faking her way through higher education she worked as a ...
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Lorraine White

Lorraine White was born in Cumbria but for the past eighteen years she has lived and worked in Greater Manchester ...
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Maria Stephenson

Five years ago, Maria was trapped within an unhappy toxic marriage. Then her fortieth birthday happened and she wrote herself ...
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Mark P. Henderson

Mark P. Henderson insists on the middle initial in his name because there’s another novelist called Mark Henderson who writes ...
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Maxine Ridge

Maxine lives in the South Wales Valleys with her family For most of her working life, Maxine worked with young ...
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Michael Hildred

Late Flowering is a dramatic collection of poems and drawings by lecturer and artist Michael Hildred, who grew up in Selby during ...
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Michael J. Lowis

Mike was born in Yorkshire, where he remained until he married Susan. The couple first moved to Cheshire and then, ...
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Neal Hardin

Neal, a life-long resident of East Hull, has written over twenty stories, some of which have been adapted as screenplays ...
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Nick David

N.E.David is the pen name of York writer Nick David. Nick was born in London in 1950 but went to ...
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Oz Hardwick

Oz Hardwick has always heard voices. His grandfather’s spirited recitations of Burns and the Lake Poets provided his introduction to ...
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Patricia Riley

Patricia Riley's love of theatre was instilled in her from an early age. She has vivid memories of discovering the beauty ...
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Paul Lingaard

Paul Lingaard (the pen name of Paul Worsley) is a founder member of Fareham Writers, Hampshire. His work has been ...
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Pauline Kirk

Born in Birmingham, Pauline moved to York fifteen years ago, having lived in Leeds, Reading, Benfleet (Essex), and Melbourne (Australia) ...
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PJ Quinn

PJ Quinn is the pen name of mother and daughter team Pauline Kirk and Jo Summers. Jo challenged her mother to write a crime novel ...
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Rebecca Smith

Rebecca Smith has been fascinated by big cats wild in the UK since she first heard tales of the Surrey ...
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Richard Harries

Richard Harries (not to be confused with the Bishop of Oxford) is a well known spoken word artist with a considerable ...
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Rita Jerram

Some years ago, Rita Jerram read her grandmother Edith’s journals and began to imagine herself following in Edith’s footsteps. Rita ...
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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 ...
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Rose Drew

Rose Drew is a poet and anthropologist, at home in a lab, a classroom, or a stage. Rose is a ...
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Rosemary Palmeira

Rosemary Palmeira was born in Oporto, where the river meets the sea and came to England when she was eight ...
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Ruth Aylett

Ruth Aylett(she/her) is an internationally known researcher in artificial intelligence and robotics, as well as a poet and writer. She ...
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S.C. Paterson

S C Paterson (Sue Paterson) has a background in social work. Her first degree was in philosophy and those knotty ...
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Sarah Wimbush

Sarah Wimbush is a Doncaster poet who lived in Leeds for 22 years. Her first collection, Shelling Peas with My ...
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Shannon O’Neill

Shannon O’Neill mostly lives in her own head, but occasionally wanders the streets of Glasgow too. A poet, theatremaker and ...
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Shaunna Harper

It took Shaunna Harper some years to fully realise her flair for writing. Starting out aged twelve with goofy stories ...
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Simon Culleton

Simon Culleton was born and bred in Essex England, where he lives with his two children. His love for writing ...
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Stella Davis

Stella Davis is a poet who was able to give up the day job in 1999 thanks to an Arts ...
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Steve Nash

WINNER Sabotage Best Spoken Word Performer 2014 Steve Nash is a stateless pirate. Well, child of the army, which amounts to ...
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Susie Williamson

Susie grew up in the village of Scholes, Holmfirth, in West Yorkshire. She studied at the University of Sheffield and ...
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Suzanne Sheran

Suzanne Sheran is an American writer and artist whose creations showcase her love of wordplay, mischief and animals. In addition ...
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Tanya Nightingale

Tanya believes poetry should turn people inside out. She won the Yorkshire Open Poetry Competition in 2008 and the Ryedale ...
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Terry Simpson

Terry Simpson was born not long after a world war and grew up to a soundtrack of Family Favourites and ...
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Thelma Laycock

Thelma started writing as a child and much later became one of the founders of The Aireings, a Leeds based ...
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Tim Ellis

The son of two ex-patriot Yorkshire folk, Tim grew up in a village in Berkshire. He first attempted writing as ...
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Tim Goldthorpe

Tim Goldthorpe is a long time contributor to Dream Catcher where his unique view of his world has been enjoyed ...
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Tim Murgatroyd

Tim Murgatroyd was brought up in Yorkshire. He read English at Hertford College, Oxford University, and now lives with his ...
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Tony Lucas

Although he wrote his first rhymed verse in a classroom, at the age of seven, it was only in his ...
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Val Horner

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Victoria L. Humphreys

Victoria L. Humphreys was born in Surrey, but now lives in Dorset. She has a PhD in creative writing from ...
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Wendy Rayne-Davis

Wendy has been a researcher and did much of the research for this book. She was educated at London University ...
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William Thirsk-Gaskill

William Thirsk-Gaskill was born in Leeds and lives in Wakefield. He studied chemistry at Liverpool University, and then worked in ...
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Yvonne Hendrie

In her forties, after a career as a hospice chaplain and parish minister, Yvonne Hendrie went full circle back to ...
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