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Diana E. Almaretti was born in the Western United States' very own Golden State, California. There, she won several local awards in her home region of the Bay Area. Constantly drifting about in her own head, Diana switches rapidly between thinking about fictional characters, cosplaying as fiction

Douglas Bruton is the author of five previous novels: The Chess Piece Magician (2009), Mrs Winchester’s Gun Club (2019), Blue Postcards (2021), With or Without Angels (2022) and Hope Never Knew Horizon (2024). Blue Postcards was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2021. Hi

Hannah Stevens is a writer currently based in Leicester, UK. She writes short stories and flash fiction and her work has featured in numerous anthologies, magazines and literary journals. Her debut short story collection Without Make-up and Other Stories was published in 2012. She has a PhD in C

E. J. Saleby started writing poetry and stories as a small child and then became distracted by playing and listening to music, which was fun while it lasted. He started writing again after a new year’s resolution to try a creative writing course at City Lit three years ago. He is currently working

Ed Dallimore is the author of The Vineyards of Britain, to be published by Fairlight Books in June 2022. Ed has worked in the wine industry for over twelve years. He has spent the majority of his career championing small-scale and independent winemakers. He lived in Sydney for eight years, repre

Edward Vass is the author of the novella Milton in Purgatory, published by Fairlight Books on 1 August 2019. With a degree in marketing and advertising from the University of Lincoln, Edward now works at the British Medical Association. He lives just outside Brighton with his family. Graduatin

Eilidh is a writer and poet living in central Scotland. After twenty years of working in retail management, Eilidh returned to education. In 2016, she graduated from the University of Stirling with a BA Hons first class degree in English Literature. Following her undergraduate degree, Eilidh went on

Elaine Miles began writing short stories in 2006, when a back injury forced her to lie down and do nothing for six weeks. Unable to do much more than lift a pen, she thought she’d give writing a go, and sent a short story off to a writing competition, never dreaming for a minute that she’d win a