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John Millard spent twenty-five years as a journalist – as a reporter on local newspapers, then as a reporter and feature writer on national papers and magazines. He studied English literature at Oxford University as a mature student. He now works in local government as a magazine editor and PR/mar

Jonathan Taylor is an author, editor, lecturer and critic. His books include the novels Melissa (Salt, 2015) and Entertaining Strangers (Salt, 2012), both shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award, the poetry collection Cassandra Complex (Shoestring, 2018), and the memoir Take Me Home: Parkinsonâ

Joseph Hunter is a fiction writer and postgraduate researcher at the University of Manchester. Originally from the midlands, he moved to Manchester for the climate after a decade in London. He writes about masculinity, loss, and nature.   Q: What is the first book you remember reading or

Josephine Galvin is a late starter in the world of writing. She has had varied jobs including travel, education and proof reading – none of which were very lucrative, but which have provided rich material for fiction. She has three delightful adult children, two of whom still live at home in De

JT Torres is the author of Taking Flight, a Fairlight Moderns novella published on 8 July 2021. Born in Miami, Florida, JT Torres is of Cuban-American descent. He is an assistant professor of English at Quinnipiac University. Torres combines an MFA in creative writing with a PhD in educational ps

Judith is a London-based writer and journalist. She won 1st Prize for the London Short Story Prize 2019, and 3rd Prize for the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize 2019. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London, and graduated with Distinction in 2019. Judith is cu

Judy Darley is a fiction writer, journalist and communications manager from Bristol. She was lucky enough to spend much of her childhood up trees with her nose in a book or scribbling her own stories. Her fiction has been described as 'shimmeringly strange', possibly because she can't stop writing a

Julia Clayton studied Economics at the LSE and Ancient History at King’s College London. For twenty-three years she was Head of Classics at King George V College, Southport, a state-sector sixth-form college. In summer 2019 she decided to retire from teaching in order to concentrate on writing and

Justin Aylward is a novelist and short story writer from Dublin, Ireland. He first began writing poetry in school aged fifteen. His love for cinema took him to third level education where he studied film. Making films proved to be difficult, so after devoting more time to reading novels, he wrote hi

Karen B. Golightly is the author of the Fairlight Moderns novella There Are Things I Know, published July 2018. Karen is an Associate Professor of English and is an advocate for autism. She has a PhD in English from the Southern Illinois University. Karen's poems, stories, creative non-ficti