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Richard Salsbury is a novelist and short story writer based in Hampshire. His writing aims to strike a happy medium between literary and genre writing. He also plays the guitar, brews his own beer, and is an editor and the website designer for environmental writing project Pens of the Earth. Rich

Richard Smyth is a writer and critic. His historical novel The Woodcock was published by Fairlight Books in July 2021. Richard’s work has appeared in The Guardian, The New Statesman and The Times Literary Supplement, and he is the author of five books of non-fiction. In between b

Rob McIvor grew up mainly in south Lancashire but now lives in Blackheath, south-east London, with his family and two unruly cats. He has some of his best ideas for stories while riding one of his four bikes, sometimes over ridiculously long distances. Unfortunately, as he has yet to master simultan

Rosalind Goldsmith lives in Toronto. She teaches evening classes in an adult literacy programme. During the day she drinks too much coffee, writes, reads, and usually manages to avoid cat videos on YouTube. Rosalind has written radio plays for CBC Radio Drama and a play for the Blyth Theatre Fest

Rosie Anderson was born in the West Midlands and has lived near Birmingham in a small village no one’s ever heard of all her life. Other than reading and writing, one of her greatest pleasures is babysitting four wonderful little girls. She completed her undergraduate degree in English Literature

Ruby Gaffney is 24 and from London. She studied English at Oxford and then Edinburgh. She currently works in education and writes in her free time. Ruby started writing fiction in early 2022. Since then, she has been published in Flash Fiction Magazine. Ruby Gaffney's short story can be read h

Rue Baldry lives in Yorkshire, Great Britain. She has a BA in English Literature from York University and an MA in Creative Writing from Leeds University. In 2015 she was a Jerwood/Arvon mentee and, in 2017, The Bridge Awards’ Emerging Writer. Her short stories have been published in journals such

S. D. Brown is based in Dorset, England. He writes poetry, short stories and novellas. He has had work published in Acclaim, Platform for Prose, The Fortnightly Review, Vine Leaves Press, Litro Publishing, The Orchard Poetry Journal, Eucalyptus Lit. & Eunoia Review.   Q: What is th

Sam Mills is from Maidenhead, Berkshire. He studied Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He currently lives in London, writing and working part-time as a tutor. He began writing fiction in 2015. After graduating from university, he took an internship in New Delhi where he wrote

Hailing from Aotearoa, New Zealand, Sam Reese is an insatiable traveller who is currently writing and teaching in the UK. An award-winning short story writer, his first collection, Come the Tide, was published in 2019 with Platypus Press, and his stories have appeared in Headland, Storgy, Brittle St