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Clare O'Dea is the author of Voting Day (2022), a Fairlight Moderns novella, and Before the Leaves Fall (2025), which are loosely connected. Originally from Dublin, Clare O’Dea has lived in Switzerland since 2003. After studying French and Russian at Trinity College Dublin, she had a varied car

After completing an English degree at Oxford University and working as an actor and arts administrator in London, Clare Owen married a boatbuilder and moved to Cornwall. She squeezes writing (and occasionally performing) around roleplay jobs, renovating a house, bringing up three kids and doing Airb

Clare Reddaway is a Bath-based writer of short stories and plays. Her short stories have been widely published online and in anthologies, and she has won and been listed for many short story competitions, including the BBC National Short Story Awards and the Bridport Prize. Clare’s plays have been

By day, Cleo Gorringe is a current MSc Business with Marketing student at the University of Warwick. By night, she is a writer. She graduated from the University of Exeter with a first-class BA with honours in English in 2019. Her work often draws upon the dark in the mundane, and she finds it most

Clio Velentza is the author of the gothic novel The Piano Room (2021). Clio was born and lives in Athens, Greece. Her writing has frequently been published in anthologies and literary journals, most recently in Popshot Quarterly, in both English and her native Greek. Her short fiction has won se

Craig Smith is a poet and novelist from Huddersfield. His writing has appeared on iambapoet and the Mechanics' Institute Review, as well as in The North, The Blizzard, and The Interpreters’ House. Craig has three books to his name: two poetry collections, L.O.V.E. Love (Smith/Doorstop) and A Quick

D A Adamson is an advertising copywriter who has written for press, radio and TV. He is a native Yorkshire man with a keen sense of irony and a love of the absurd. During his life, he has worked in the US and Scandinavia. He is a keen countryman and is married with three grown-up children. He fir

D W Evans was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and grew up in county Durham and Northumberland. First study and then work, principally public-sector posts, took him south to live in London, Brighton and eventually Jersey. D W Evans has always been writing something: in school it was plays and comic mu

Dan Corry runs NPC, a charity that seeks to improve the impact of the charity sector via think tank work and consultancy. He is an economist by profession and after working in the civil service and in think tanks, was a special adviser during most of the Labour government 1997-2010. Dan wrote man

Daniel Tovey has spent his life on the South Coast of England and currently resides in Dorset. In the daytime, he teaches English to secondary school children and, by night, he researches, adapts and performs stories. As an oral storyteller, Daniel took a back route into writing as a way of explo