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[…]

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[…]

Angela Arnold

Angela Arnold

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

Andrew Crowther

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[…]