Helena Hinn lives in Newcastle on Tyne, writes and attends literature and film courses, and reads. She works part time as an assistant manager for a charity shop. Helena began writing in 1984. She writes poetry and short fiction. She has been published in Virago, Women’s Press, Faber & Fabe
Read MoreHannah 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
Read MoreNicholas Russell is now retired. His main career was teaching applied biology, history of science and science communication in colleges and universities. He also undertook educational development work for the Nuffield Foundation and worked as a Head of Department of Humanities at Imperial College Lo
Read MoreMaggie Hellwig is a writer and instructor of English Literature at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. She graduated from Dickinson College with her BFA in English Literature in 2007, and with her MFA in Writing from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Maggie’s first short s
Read MoreHaving just retired from working more years than he cares to remember in the NHS, Richard Corney is left free to concentrate on playing the piano, writing, cycling and paragliding. Richard has always been writing, starting as a child. His first love has always been poetry, although he did try to
Read MoreSophie van Llewyn grew up in south-eastern Romania, but she now lives in Germany. Her debut fiction book Bottled Goods, published by Fairlight Books in July 2018, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019, the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019 and the People’s Book Prize 2018. The
Read MoreB A McHallam has had a varied career path during her working life. She worked in a bank for thirty-one years before taking early retirement from her role as a Bank Manager. From there she became a mature student. Barbara gained a BA and Masters degrees in history at the University of Central Lancash
Read MoreAmy Kitcher has been a waitress, a teacher, a shop assistant, a lobbyist, and a politician. She has camped in the Sahara, lived in a Parisian apartment reputedly haunted by a monk and survived being run over by a pensioner. She loves travelling, reading and board games – any form of escapism reall
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