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Gordon Gibson lives in Troon, on the south-west coast of Scotland. He started working in steelworks in Motherwell, and later trained as a primary school teacher. This led on to a twenty-year-long career as a lecturer in higher education. In 2010, Gordon started writing full-time. Since then his p

Greg Forrester was born and raised in County Durham, and currently lives in the North East. After initially wanting to be a teacher, Greg changed his mind and decided to study Creative Writing, at both the University of Sunderland (undergraduate) and Newcastle University (postgraduate). Greg star

Gregory Baines is the author of The Nail House, a novella published on 1 August 2019. Gregory lived in Newcastle, Sydney and Tasmania, before attending Newcastle University (NSW) where he completed an arts degree focused on History and English. After working for three years as a web designer and

Guy Jones was born in Manchester and brought up in Glossop in Derbyshire. He did an Ecology degree in Wolverhampton before settling in Nottingham, where he worked in the community and voluntary sector. In 1998 he set up Hothouse Theatre in Nottingham, a community theatre and film project using the c

Hardev Matharoo is a young short-story writer based in London. His work attempts to express life as it is actually experienced, with a focus on character and the subjective over plot. His stories take a ‘slice of life’ approach, exploring themes such as love, happiness, friendship and the pursui

Harley Carnell lives and writes in London, England. He has been writing for over ten years, both in the short and longer forms, and had his first story published in 2011. Since then he has had varying success, but has tried to use all rejections as positive experiences to learn, hone his craft and i

Hec Lampert-Bates is a writer from Guelph, Ontario, now living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is interested in surrealist and bizarro fiction. He is also very interested in film making and enjoys watching odd films. Hec plays the violin and reads in his free time, particularly short fiction and poe

Helen Salsbury’s fiction explores the complexity of relationships and how we are shaped by the environments we live in. She is a spoken word performer, trained community journalist and the founder of the Pens of the Earth environmental writing project. Helen started writing pretty much as soon