Marina Warner writes fiction and cultural criticism: among her novels, The  Leto Bundle follows a refugee and her children through time.  She is inspired by myths and fairy tales, and has explored them in Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights and Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale, as well as in her recent collection of stories, Fly Away Home. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. 

 

Anthony Trevelyan was born in 1973 and grew up in rural Lancashire.  Currently he lives in Manchester with his wife and teaches English and Creative Writing at a sixth form college in Stockport. His first novel, The Weightless World is published by Galley Beggar Press

 

Nicholas Royle is the author of First Novel, as well as six earlier novels including The Director’s Cut and Antwerp, and a short story collection, Mortality. In addition he has published more than a hundred short stories. He has edited nineteen anthologies and is series editor of Best British Short Stories (Salt). A senior lecturer in creative writing at MMU, he also runs Nightjar Press, which publishes new short stories as signed, limited-edition chapbooks, and is an editor at Salt Publishing.

 

James Miller was born in London in 1976 and educated at Oxford, UCL and King’s College London. He is the author of the highly acclaimed novels Lost Boys (Little, Brown 2008) and Sunshine State (Little, Brown 2010) as well as numerous short stories and academic articles. He is senior lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature at Kingston University.

Twitter: @jmlostboys

 

 

Toby Litt is senior lecturer in creative writing at Birkbeck, University of London. He has published three collections of stories and eight novels and also writes the comic Dead Boy Detectives. He has been called, by The Guardian, "One of the most prolific of the newer generation of British novelists and a master of a scarily dynamic prose."

 

After several years in London, Penny Hancock now lives in Cambridge with her husband and three children. She is a part-time primary school teacher at a speech and language school and has travelled extensively as a language teacher. Her debut novel, Tideline, was published to rave reviews and was a Richard & Judy Bookclub pick. 

 

Paul Ewen is a New Zealand writer based in South London. His stories have appeared in the British Council's New Writing anthology, and also in the TES, Tank and Five Dials. Francis Plug - How To Be A Public Author was described as "inspired" by The Sunday Times, whose reviewer also called it: "A brilliant, deranged new comic creation... The funniest book I've read in years."

 

Stella Duffy has written thirteen novels, over fifty short stories, and ten plays. She has twice won Stonewall Writer of the Year and twice won the CWA Short Story Dagger. Salt published her collected stories Everything is Moving, Everything is Joined in 2014. 

 

In addition to her writing work, Stella is a theatemaker and co-director of the Fun Palaces campaign for culture for all. 

 

 

Carys Davies' short story collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike, won the 2015 International Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize. She was the winner of the the 2010 Society of Authors’ Olive Cook Short Story Award, the 2011 Royal Society of Literature’s V S Pritchett Memorial Prize, and a 2013 Northern Writers’ Award.  Born in Wales, she now lives in Lancaster.

 

 

Ruby Cowling was born in Bradford and lives in London. In 2014 she won The White Review Short Story Prize and the London Short Story Prize, and her most recent publication credits include Lighthouse, The Lonely Crowd and Flamingo Land & Other Stories. http://rubyorruth.wordpress.com

 

 

James Clammer is a writer living in the south of England. His debut novel, Why I Went Back will be published by Andersen Press in 2017.

 

Adam Biles is an English writer and translator based in Paris. He is the host of regular events at Shakespeare & Company and elsewhere, and his writing has appeared in Gorse, Vestoj, 3:AM Magazine, Momma Tried and at the Palais de Tokyo. Adam came second place in the 2011 Shakespeare & Company Paris Literary Prize for the Novella (out of 450 entrants) with his highly praised debut, Grey Cats, 

 

Elizabeth Baines' most recent collection of short stories is Used to Be (Salt). She is the author of an earlier collection, Balancing on the Edge of the World, and two novels, Too Many Magpies and The Birth Machine (all available from Salt).