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[…]
As a little girl, Rebecca avidly subscribed to the Puffin Club magazine. She once decided to enter a competition in which children were asked to write a story about a zany family. She didn’t have to think too hard about it; she penned a thinly veiled fictional tale about her own family and won.Read 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[…]
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[…]
P.S. Lynch is a writer and teacher with over twenty years’ experience in the UK and international education. An expert in conspiracy films and literature, he has published on the subject and lectured across Europe and in the United States. Whether as a teacher or writer, his passion is sharing stories; those that inspire, amuseRead more about P S Lynch[…]
A life’s story should be written by the heart and not the head; actions performed on a whim excite more than those executed to a plan. In between the boring but necessary bits, my life’s story sees me working on a German pig farm, taking the midnight bus across Turkey, falling in love, sitting atopRead more about Richard Cave[…]
After entering the world in the 1960s, when my parents were living in a caravan on a petrol station forecourt in Selby, I now find myself living aboard a very different kind of metal box, which I have called my home on the Rochdale Canal near Hebden Bridge for the past 15 years. I’ve livedRead more about Winston Plowes[…]
