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)...
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...
Carolyn O’Brien Carolyn is an historical fiction writer from Manchester. Her writing has a strong sense of the north-west of England and its radical past, from the smoke-filled streets of industrial Manchester to the hidden histories of the Lake District where she...
