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Author Category: Short Story Author

Previously published as an illustrator and cartoonist, Maggie Ling swapped dip pen for iMac to concentrate on words alone. Her prose fiction has since been placed in numerous international competitions, including a shortlisting for the Bridport Prize. Her short story Carpe Diem made the top fifty lo

Tamsin Partington is a creative writing master’s student, child tamer, cat wrangler and wife. Her passion is the short story, but she also loves to write longer sci-fi and fantasy fiction for children and young adults. She started writing as soon as she could spell, and when her children started p

Jan Steer grew up and was educated in Devonshire, then served a full career in the Royal Navy before embarking on another in podiatric medicine. He read for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Wales (Trinity). He is an avid reader with an almost child-like fascination for the world around

Konstantina Sozou-Kyrkou was born to and raised by a family of retailers and farmers in a small mountainous village in western Greece. When she was seventeen she moved to Athens for university studies and then, after studying various subjects (from business administration to painting, from drama to

Mark Lynch grew up in East London and has been interested in storytelling as far back as he can remember. He’s done brief stints in amateur acting, having once played Bill Sykes in a school play and then many years later going on to join acting classes and performing in small performances in Centr

William Prendiville is the author of the Fairlight Moderns novella Atlantic Winds, published on 11 July 2019. Born in Ireland, William was raised in Canada, in Newfoundland and Ontario. He attended McGill University in Montreal, where he was awarded the Lionel Shapiro Award for Creative Writing.

Nial Giacomelli is the author of The Therapist, a Fairlight Moderns novella published on 1 August 2019. Born in Luton, England, Nial spent his childhood in a small village in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, before moving with his family to Chicago, Illinois. Upon returning to England,

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

Emma Franieczek is currently working and living in the Cotswolds with her partner and two cats. She was born in Eastbourne, has moved around the south of England and has held many jobs including dancer, cabin crew, research assistant and store manager. She is known for her loud laugh and curly hair.

Alex Learmont was born in Scotland in 1942. He then emigrated to Zimbabwe in 1952. Now resident in Cape Town, Alex was active in film production between 1958 and 2018 as writer/director/cameraman in corporate communication, training, educational docudrama, international news and current affairs.