Maggie Ritchie Maggie Ritchie was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Published Novel for Looking for Evelyn (Saraband). She was awarded the Curtis Brown Prize for her debut novel, Paris Kiss (Saraband), on the University of Glasgow’s...
Meg & Catherine Pybus A mother and daughter team – Meg was an infant school teacher, and when she isn’t peering into the hedgerow to find dormice, she is a writer and an artist. Her daughter Catherine is an expert in the power of language. She was a Creative...
Tom Pow Tom Pow was born in Edinburgh in 1950. Primarily a poet, several of his collections have won awards and three of his poetry collections have been short-listed for Scottish Book of the Year. Most recently, Dear Alice – Narratives of Madness (Salt Publishing)...
Peter Polycarpou Actor-writer-director Peter Polycarpou is a Greek Cypriot Londoner who is working on his debut novel, Socrates. Paul Socrates is a Greek-Cypriot who has worked for 24 years in the same London factory, steam-pressing dresses. It’s about one day in his...
Ann O’Loughlin A leading journalist in Ireland for nearly thirty years, Ann O’Loughlin has covered all the major news events of the last three decades. She spent much of her career with independent newspapers, as a Security Correspondent at the height of the troubles...
